Something different from me...hope you enjoy it...
Winters Nor’easterly Blow…
She caught a breeze, her masts pulled to the brink of pain. She did list to starboard taking on water as she did so. Her captain, fresh from the academy, did have very little experience with a barque, screamed to add more sail. His last command it did turn out to be, as a wave caught her port, breaking her back and sending her to the bottom with all hands…
She is seen every now and then, in a fog, during a storm, heavy rains & winds out of the nor’east. She still proudly displays her flag, tattered and worn it is not, her sails just are beat, but she sails through storms warning wayward sailors of the dangers of too much sail.
Still in this day of nuclear power, diesel and gas, no sails do we see too much anymore, she does fly her flag proud, and warns of nor’easterly gales. Her crew just so many skeletons hanging off her masts, her captain still can be heard screaming orders for more sail.
He met his match that fateful night so long ago, but does come back to warn us all of his mistake. He does do so from the gates of hell, his ship now the devils yacht, as his flag did always say, a horned beast pictured with a sword. His flag never did wear, no matter how long the deep ocean did eat at it, as the devil does now own this ship, the sailors his crew.
Three Masted Barque 1870 The difference between a Ship and a Barque is that the Barque had fore and aft sails on the mizzen mast . Some ships in later life were converted to Barques as they were easier to operate . A Barque in which the foremast was square rigged and the remaining were rigged with fore and aft sails was called a Barquentine . Barques seem to have been slightly more popular than ships and more were built . They varied considerably in size and as far as tonnage was concerned , the largest sailing vessel ever built was a Barque - the " France " , 418 ft. long and of 5,600 tons . Length 265 ft Beam 40 ft Depth 24 ft 9 ins Tonnage 2,039 tons
Wow, Ed! Nice story, full of November gloom and mystery. I would love to read more of that! Franz
Reviewed by Bobbie Hess
11/1/2004
Nice touch, Ed! Have you thought to write a screenplay based on such? Of course, now that I've learned something new, I have another wrinkle in my brain. I like what you have written . . . b
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