Project Gutenberg 2015-08-28 Public domain in the USA. 94 Russell, William Clark 1844 1911 Russell, W. Clark (William Clark) The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 1 (of 3) Produced by Chris Curnow, Moti Ben-Ari and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 1 (of 3)" by William Clark Russell is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story follows Geoffrey Fenton, a young man who takes on the role of second mate aboard the merchant ship Saracen during a perilous voyage toward the East Indies in the late 1700s. This maritime adventure intertwines elements of superstition, exploring themes such as fate and the supernatural through the ominous legend of the Flying Dutchman. At the start of the narrative, Geoffrey Fenton describes his journey to becoming a sailor, detailing his apprenticeship before joining the Saracen. As the ship ventures into distant waters, Fenton and his crew encounter various challenges and superstitions, particularly revolving around the dreaded appearance of the Death Ship. With Captain Skevington's grave discussions about the Phantom Ship, the crew soon finds themselves steeped in fear when they learn of a cursed snowship, Lovely Nancy, which has recently crossed their path. This encounter leads to a series of eerie events, ultimately culminating in a tragic death aboard the Saracen, which leaves the crew grappling with a palpable sense of doom as they face the possibility of encountering the malevolent specter themselves. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Immortalism -- Fiction Flying Dutchman -- Fiction PR Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 307309 307310 2024-09-20T16:11:56.676295 2023-09-21T12:30:44.243306 text/html text/html 309448 2015-08-28T08:55:10 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 176360 2015-08-28T08:55:12 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 195586 2024-09-20T16:12:01.237284 application/epub+zip 196389 2024-09-20T16:11:57.406271 application/epub+zip 196390 2024-09-20T16:11:57.026256 application/epub+zip 295393 2024-09-20T16:12:04.519235 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 258114 2024-09-20T16:12:00.797294 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 258340 2022-09-22T14:17:32.541492 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 275148 274945 2024-09-20T16:11:56.187334 2023-09-21T12:30:43.702315 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 274915 2015-08-28T08:55:10 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 108821 2015-08-28T08:55:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 18428 2024-09-20T16:12:04.644216 application/rdf+xml 16558 2024-09-20T16:11:57.107273 image/jpeg 2574 2024-09-20T16:11:57.066271 image/jpeg 176092 2024-09-20T16:11:56.706316 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia