02377cam a22003013u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000590012624500240018526400510020930000470026033600260030733700260033333800360035950000310039550800140042652014650044053400620190565300650196785600430203277260UtSlPG20260610134805.0mcr n260607r20251919utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a19012168  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPR1 aHainsselin, Montague T.q(Montague Thomas),d1871-194310aIn peril on the sea 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-17  aAl Haines  a"In peril on the sea" by Montague T. Hainsselin is a naval novel written in the early 20th century. Set aboard a British light cruiser during wartime, it blends tense sea operations with espionage, rescue-at-sea suspense, and a sudden, fraught romance. The story centers on First Lieutenant Stapleton, Captain Blake, and the rescued Irish cousins Norah, Netta, and Patrick Sheridan, whose arrival brings hidden motives and moral conflict aboard.

At the start of the work, a playful preface announces a straightforward naval yarn before the tale opens on a fog-bound cruiser, the Marathon, slowing through danger and recovering a drifting boat with two young women, Norah and Netta, and their cousin Patrick. In the warm bustle of the wardroom, Captain Blake arranges to send them ashore by destroyer, while Stapleton is instantly drawn to Norah and privately declares himself. Shortly after, Netta collapses and, in panic, blurts out a detailed story of a bomb plot—dismissed by the ship’s doctor as delirium—while Patrick simultaneously urges Norah to plant a timed device; she hesitates and is interrupted as they are hurried off to the destroyer. At sea, Norah is racked with remorse and dread, unsure whether Patrick managed to hide the bomb, and back aboard the cruiser officers debate the plausibility of such a device, leaving the opening with a tightening question: is the Marathon already in peril? (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Hodder and Stoughton, 1919  aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, British -- Fiction40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77260