TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bethel,W.R.
AU  - Graef,Robert A.
TI  - Heritage of the sea
T2  - Produced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2 1929
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Sea stories
KW  - Ship captains -- Fiction
KW  - Alcohol trafficking -- Fiction
KW  - Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2025-06-10; Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net; Originally published; New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
N2  - "Heritage of the sea by W. R. Bethel" is a pulp short sea-adventure story written in the late 1920s. Set in the Prohibition era, it follows a rum-running captain on Long Island Sound whose seamanship and sense of honor are tested in a deadly fog after a collision at sea.  On a blacked-out run through thick fog, a hard-nosed skipper guides his rum boat while his jittery backer, Joe Parento, urges retreat. When a tramp steamer rams a dark-laying Coast Guard cutter and flees, the captain snaps on lights, lowers boats, and rescues the survivors, even as Parento pulls a gun and wounds him in a panic to protect the cargo. The captain knocks Parento out, disarms him, and, while guarding his shipment, treats the rescued sailors decently with dry clothes and a drink. Weak from his wound, he lets the Coast Guard commander take the bridge to steer the rum-runner back toward Rum Row so the guardsmen can signal for pickup—leaving the tale on the note that, in fog that blinds the eye, honor still charts the course. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76263
ER  -