item: #1 of 25
          id: 17414
      author: Springer, Norman
       title: The Blood Ship
        date: None
       words: 74684
      flesch: 91
     summary: Good men and sailors, here, but men whose habit of life was submission. They were good men, those tradesmen, fighting men, and skilled in just such battles as this promised to be.
    keywords: aft; aye; big; blackie; boston; bough; cabin; captain; cockney; day; deck; eyes; face; fitzgibbon; foc'sle; forward; golden; good; hand; hard; head; joe; lady; lynch; mate; men; mister; newman; night; nils; poop; port; roy; saw; ship; stiffs; swede; swope; think; thought; time; voice; watch; way; words; work
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        item: #2 of 25
          id: 21455
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures
        date: None
       words: 109557
      flesch: 82
     summary: At other times, I guessed by the dashing of the sea against the sides, that there was a strong breeze. Said Joe to Toney, `What are you doing in these 'ere parts, old Ship?' Toney told him how he had been paid off and had pretty well emptied his pockets of shiners, and was thinking that before long he must join another craft.
    keywords: aunt; away; board; boat; captain; crew; day; deb; deck; dick; end; escape; father; feet; find; food; hands; head; hold; home; life; man; mark; mate; men; night; officers; place; reginald; rest; riddle; rock; round; run; saw; sea; set; ship; shore; sir; smugglers; tell; thought; time; tom; water; way
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        item: #3 of 25
          id: 21475
      author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
       title: Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler
        date: None
       words: 112982
      flesch: 86
     summary: Suiting the action to the word, Bob, taking off his tarpaulin, threw a handful of silver into it, and his example being followed by a number of other men, he grasped me by the hand, and set off forthwith to consult Lawyer Chalk. Bodies of old men, women, and children were scattered about, but the heads were gone.
    keywords: board; boat; brig; captain; coming; day; deck; doctor; father; good; griffiths; hands; help; island; jack; jim; look; man; mary; mate; men; mother; nancy; natives; night; people; peter; rest; round; sail; saw; sea; ship; shore; sir; thought; time; tom; water; way; wind; work
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        item: #4 of 25
          id: 21710
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Crew of the Water Wagtail
        date: None
       words: 59007
      flesch: 79
     summary: It was a calm but very dark night when Swinton, Blazer, Garnet, Heron, Taylor, and several other men of kindred spirit, rose from their couches at the further end of the island, and, stealthily quitting the place, hastened back to their original camp. If hard work, hard fare, and hard fortune are trying even to good men and true, what must they be to bad men and false?
    keywords: boy; burns; camp; captain; chief; course; day; father; find; fire; fish; friends; god; good; great; grummidge; hand; head; hendrick; hunter; indian; island; land; like; look; man; master; men; moment; oliver; olly; party; paul; right; round; set; stubbs; sun; swinton; time; trench; water
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        item: #5 of 25
          id: 21714
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Red Eric
        date: None
       words: 99582
      flesch: 78
     summary: The present was such an occasion to little Ailie Dunning. Meanwhile the captain stepped up to the Portuguese sailors and told them to mind their own business, and let _honest_ men alone; adding, that if they did not take his advice, he would first give them a licking and then pitch them all into the river.
    keywords: ailie; boat; briant; captain; captain dunning; child; course; crew; day; dear; deep; doctor; dunning; eric; eyes; face; fact; glynn; good; gurney; hand; head; jacko; jane; jim; know; left; life; look; man; martha; means; men; mind; minutes; moment; monkey; order; phil; place; point; red; right; rokens; round; sea; ship; things; thought; time; voice; water; way; whale; white; wos; wot
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        item: #6 of 25
          id: 21747
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: The Lonely Island: The Refuge of the Mutineers
        date: None
       words: 90289
      flesch: 80
     summary: There's a lot of us whose backs have bin made to smart, and whose grog has been stopped for nothin' but spite, John Adams, and you know it. John Adams, _alias_ John Smith, for by each of those names was he known.
    keywords: adams; boat; bounty; brown; captain; charlie; children; christian; course; dan; day; eyes; face; father; god; good; hand; head; island; jack; john; john adams; know; left; little; long; look; man; martin; matt; mccoy; men; mind; mutineers; old; otaheitan; people; pitcairn; poor; quintal; right; round; sally; sea; ship; sir; tell; things; thursday; time; toc; water; way; wife; women; work; years; young
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        item: #7 of 25
          id: 23274
      author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
       title: Lost in the Forest: Wandering Will's Adventures in South America
        date: None
       words: 26553
      flesch: 74
     summary: While they were walking quietly along, several snakes--some of considerable length--wriggled out of their path, and Larry trod on one which twirled round his foot, causing him to leap off the ground like a grasshopper and utter a yell, compared to which all his previous shoutings were like soft music. While this was going on, Larry O'Hale, Muggins, and Mr Cupples, with several others, were brought to the gangway.
    keywords: boat; bunco; captain; course; day; eyes; forest; griffin; hero; larry; man; men; moment; muggins; night; o'hale; osten; party; peter; sea; ship; tiger; time; town; tree; way; yer
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        item: #8 of 25
          id: 2415
      author: London, Jack
       title: The Mutiny of the Elsinore
        date: None
       words: 116787
      flesch: 88
     summary: For that matter he had already dispatched orders to Mr. Pike, the first mate of the _Elsinore_, to knock out the partition between my state-room and the spare state-room adjoining. When I made up my mind to come, I telegraphed Mr. Pike--he's the mate, you know.
    keywords: aft; away; bridge; cabin; captain; captain west; chart; crew; davis; day; days; deck; elsinore; eyes; face; feet; for'ard; forecastle; going; good; half; hand; head; high; horn; hour; house; jacobs; life; look; main; man; margaret; mate; mellaire; men; miss; moment; morning; pike; place; poop; rail; rhine; right; room; sail; sailors; sea; ship; sir; sleep; spink; steward; tell; thing; thought; time; tom; voyage; wada; watch; water; way; weather; west; wheel; wind; woman; work; world; years
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        item: #9 of 25
          id: 25982
      author: Anonymous
       title: Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.
        date: None
       words: 140542
      flesch: 68
     summary: I now found that the vessels were a fleet under convoy of the Diamond man-of-war, bound for Jamaica; but many ships had parted company in the storm. The Litchfield, Captain Barton, left Ireland on the 11th of November, 1758, in company with several other men of war and transports, under the command of Commodore Keppel, intended for the reduction of Goree.
    keywords: assistance; board; boat; brig; cabin; captain; companions; course; crew; cut; danger; day; days; death; deck; distance; fast; feet; fire; fish; fore; frigate; good; guns; half; hands; head; hold; hope; hours; island; length; lieutenant; little; loss; main; man; mast; means; men; moment; morning; nicholls; night; north; number; o'clock; officers; people; pieces; place; provisions; quarter; raft; rest; return; round; sail; sailors; sea; second; set; ship; shore; sir; situation; small; thought; time; vessel; water; waves; way; weather; west; whale; wind; wreck
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        item: #10 of 25
          id: 26057
      author: McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)
       title: Marjorie
        date: None
       words: 64139
      flesch: 79
     summary: Better for her to die here by the hand of the man who loved her than to have been on that island at the mercy of such men. Indeed, I myself have now been long used to associate with the great folk of the earth, and have found them in all essential matters very much like other men.
    keywords: amber; captain; captain amber; cornelys; cornelys jensen; day; end; eyes; face; fair; good; hand; heart; island; jensen; kind; lancelot; life; like; love; man; marjorie; marmaduke; men; mind; moment; mother; night; place; saw; sea; ship; tell; thing; thought; time; water; way; words; world
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        item: #11 of 25
          id: 27906
      author: Collingwood, Harry
       title: The Voyage of the Aurora
        date: None
       words: 89004
      flesch: 66
     summary: To Walford George said nothing whatever of his purpose; the unfortunate wretch could not possibly aid them, and there was the possibility that he _might_ unwittingly betray them. One of these was a certain Lieutenant Walford, a cousin of Lucy's; the other being Captain George Leicester, of the merchant schooner _
    keywords: aurora; barque; board; boat; bowen; cabin; canvas; captain; course; craft; crew; day; deck; face; feet; fellow; fore; george; good; half; hand; having; head; hour; left; leicester; look; lucy; main; man; mate; men; moment; night; poor; ritson; round; sail; schooner; sea; second; set; ship; sir; time; tom; walford; watch; water; way; wind; work
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        item: #12 of 25
          id: 28387
      author: Watson, H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott)
       title: Hurricane Island
        date: None
       words: 94372
      flesch: 90
     summary: Well, Mr. Holgate, as between man and man, you were, I said. Grant was at bay in a corner, the cook lay dead, and half a dozen mutineers were struggling in the foreground with some persons I could not see: while through the broken boards of the windows other men were climbing.
    keywords: alix; away; barraclough; cabin; captain; corridor; day; deck; doctor; door; eyes; face; frederic; good; hand; head; holgate; john; lane; left; legrand; light; look; mademoiselle; man; men; mind; moment; morland; mutineers; open; phillimore; prince; princess; pye; queen; room; saloon; sea; ship; sir; tell; thought; time; treasure; voice; water; way; yacht
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        item: #13 of 25
          id: 28597
      author: Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)
       title: A Man to His Mate
        date: None
       words: 57840
      flesch: 92
     summary: We must ask your confidence, Mr. Rainey. I imagine you'll be the only one who'll take seltzer, Mr. Rainey, said the doctor pleasantly, passing the bottle.
    keywords: aboard; blind; cabin; captain; carlsen; day; deck; deming; doctor; enny; eyes; face; father; giant; girl; git; goin'; gold; good; gun; hand; hansen; hunters; ice; karluk; lund; man; men; peggy; rainey; right; sandy; schooner; sea; share; ship; simms; skipper; tamada; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; wind; yore
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        item: #14 of 25
          id: 32615
      author: Palmer, Ray
       title: The Hell Ship
        date: None
       words: 9566
      flesch: 94
     summary: Once more Gene began talking. Gene thought of the glimpse he'd gotten of the thing in the pilot's window.
    keywords: ann; captain; door; eyes; gene; maher; man; schwenky; ship; space; way
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        item: #15 of 25
          id: 38296
      author: Stables, Gordon
       title: Wild Adventures round the Pole Or, The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon"
        date: None
       words: 103609
      flesch: 85
     summary: Said Silas one morning to McBain, as they stood together leaning on the bulwarks. She'll have more of it; won't she, matie mine? The mate laughed and commenced to sing-- `Won't you walk into my parlour?' Said the spider to the fly? She's evidently a whaler, crow's-nest and all, he said.
    keywords: air; allan; arrandoon; bear; bit; board; boat; boy; boys; captain; cockie; come; day; days; dear; deck; doctor; eyes; face; freezing; gentlemen; good; green; grig; half; hands; head; heroes; home; hour; ice; kind; know; life; like; look; magnus; man; mate; mcbain; men; moment; night; north; peter; poor; powders; ralph; rory; round; sandy; sea; seals; seth; ship; silas; sir; snow; stevenson; time; vessel; water; way; wild; wind; work; world; yonder
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        item: #16 of 25
          id: 43659
      author: Douglas, Amanda M.
       title: The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Or, There's No Place Like Home
        date: None
       words: 86115
      flesch: 93
     summary: Flossy was gone; little Joe was on the wide ocean; and how could she live without her precious Hal! Was that dear, laughing Joe, with his merry eyes, and the sauciest trick of winking in the corner of one; little Joe who had stood on his head, played circus, and, with the aid of a few old shawls, been lion, tiger, elephant, and camel; dear Joe, who had cuddled up in bed cold winter nights and almost smothered him,--Hal; who had made ghosts out of the bolster, and frightened Kit half to death!
    keywords: bed; boy; charlie; children; christmas; darol; day; dear; dollars; dot; eyes; face; florence; flossy; flowers; girl; god; good; granny; green; hal; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; house; joe; kit; lady; life; little; look; mean; money; morning; mrs; new; night; old; osgood; place; poor; room; round; school; terry; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; work; world
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        item: #17 of 25
          id: 44497
      author: Russell, William Clark
       title: The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 1 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas
        date: None
       words: 44470
      flesch: 81
     summary: The sugar's like mud, and the molasses is full of grit; and though I've been to sea man and boy two and twenty year, I never saw tea like what they've got on board this ship. He went to the break of the poop and leaned, with his arms squarely set, upon the brass rail, and stared furiously at the group of men about the galley.
    keywords: aft; boat; cabin; captain; carpenter; cook; coxon; crew; cuddy; deck; duckling; face; fore; forecastle; good; hands; head; look; man; men; poop; right; sail; saw; sea; ship; sir; skipper; time; vessel; voice; water; way; wind
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        item: #18 of 25
          id: 44498
      author: Russell, William Clark
       title: The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 2 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas
        date: None
       words: 43290
      flesch: 86
     summary: The men, in spite of themselves, watched her anxiously, and so did others on the forecastle, such cowards does conscience make of men. These stores, so far as I could judge by the contents of the tin dishes which the men took forward, consisted of butter, white biscuit, a rasher of ham to each man, and tea or cocoa; excellent fare for men who had been starved on rotten provisions.
    keywords: boatswain; cabin; carpenter; crew; deck; hand; head; leave; left; life; look; man; men; miss; poop; right; robertson; royle; ship; sir; stevens; steward; thought; time; want; water; way; work
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        item: #19 of 25
          id: 44499
      author: Russell, William Clark
       title: The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas
        date: None
       words: 43020
      flesch: 81
     summary: No flesh an' blood o' mine as I had any kind o' feeling for should set foot on board ship without fust having a row with me. They keep a hurricane locked up in their insides, and wander across the sea, on the look-out for ships; when they come across something worth wrecking they let fly.
    keywords: boatswain; cabin; cornish; deck; eyes; face; god; hand; head; hold; life; main; man; mary; mast; men; miss; moment; robertson; saw; sea; ship; steward; time; vessel; water; wheel; wind; work
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        item: #20 of 25
          id: 44546
      author: Russell, William Clark
       title: The Last Entry
        date: None
       words: 47575
      flesch: 87
     summary: He then became a master, until, after some eight or ten years of heroic perseverance, attended by much good luck, behold Mr. Vanderholt full-blown into a colonial merchant prince. Mr. Vanderholt and his daughter conversed for some time on matters of no concern to us who are to follow their fortunes.
    keywords: blundell; boat; boatswain; cabin; captain; captain glew; captain parry; daughter; deck; eyes; face; father; glew; good; hand; head; lady; lay; look; looking; man; mate; men; miss; miss vanderholt; mowbray; parry; sailor; schooner; sea; ship; sir; think; time; tweed; vanderholt; vessel; violet; voice; want
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        item: #21 of 25
          id: 60568
      author: McKenna, Richard
       title: The Fishdollar Affair
        date: None
       words: 8226
      flesch: 83
     summary: Hereafter you may address me as Captain Welnicki, he said. Compute physical data and report, Captain Welnicki ordered Rutledge.
    keywords: ambassador; captain; chong; ensign; fishdollar; patrol; planet; president; ship; stephen; stevie; treaty; welnicki; wendy
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        item: #22 of 25
          id: 61717
      author: Phillips, Alexander M. (Alexander Moore)
       title: The Space Flame
        date: None
       words: 6434
      flesch: 89
     summary: Markoe and Parker set to work on the timer; Captain Wallace and Cargyle checked and rechecked their position; everyone seemed to find something to do. Markoe and the captain drew their pistols, but Cargyle, who had already one experience with these glowing enigmas, seized their arms.
    keywords: cabin; cargyle; flame; markoe; ship; space; thing; wallace
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        item: #23 of 25
          id: 61845
      author: Cummings, Ray
       title: Space-Liner X-87
        date: None
       words: 18274
      flesch: 92
     summary: Someone here on board suspected me; that eavesdropper had turned his ray upon me quickly enough when I had stood talking to Captain Mackensie.... You're having bad times in Grebhar, little Dr. Frye said presently to Torio. And then a scream from little Green.
    keywords: blake; captain; chart; deck; door; earth; light; mackensie; man; mokk; nina; pressure; room; ship; torio; voice; x-87; young
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        item: #24 of 25
          id: 61958
      author: Kummer, Frederic Arnold
       title: Sargasso of the Stars
        date: None
       words: 10872
      flesch: 90
     summary: I'll take one _man_, like Cap'n Haller, to a dozen blustering bullies like you! Drunkenly Haller lurched to his feet.
    keywords: barger; cosmic; face; fay; haller; kindt; light; lodestar; man; men; moment; ship; spot; sub
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        item: #25 of 25
          id: 62350
      author: Tanner, Charles R.
       title: Mutiny in the Void
        date: None
       words: 5619
      flesch: 91
     summary: It seemed impossible for anyone to expect anything important could be accomplished by little Manool Sarouk. For this farm, as the tank-room was called, was the oxygen-producer for the rocket, and under the expert care of Manool Sarouk, the farmer, it kept the air as fresh and wholesome as the air of Earth.
    keywords: doc; gilligan; manool; room; slade; tarrant
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