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It’s just pierced the ship’s hull!’ a man anxiously shouted in a stormy night.
‘Find a way to fix it!’ The captain handled the situation in a masterful way. ‘We’re barely moving! Even worse, we are sinking!’ He went on shouting, ‘Drain all water from the ship and pray for the best!’
All of that happened on the sea fishing-boat “SS Queen Elizabeth” at the turn of a new summer season in the vast Pacific Ocean. The hurricanes of that year were likely to be never forgotten. Such a storm happens only once in a century. A storm of that magnitude had never hit” SS Queen Elizabeth” or its crew of four experienced sailors: Roger the captain, John the navigator as well as the captain’s right- hand man, James the chef and Patrick.
Obviously, those men who had seen all kinds of things, would not have undertaken such a perilous journey in the middle of the massive storm. So, it would seem, that the ship came from a great distance, as the storm had been causing immense destruction in the Pacific region for over a week. However, the crew was not able to track their position. Their eyes failed to see anything because
Scourge of the Sea