02373cam a22003613u 4500 77346 UtSlPG 20260610134806.0 m cr n 260607r20251929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Scott, Kingsbury, 1880-1943 Strange waters Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Produced from the March 9, 1929 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. Release date is 2025-11-27 Roger Frank and Sue Clark Strange waters by Kingsbury Scott is a sea‑adventure short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a Great Lakes freighter sent to wartime Atlantic service and the grit of an ordinary fireman who turns a desperate encounter with a German submarine into an audacious victory. The story follows Tim Donahue, an aging but fierce stoker on the freighter Aurora, after the ship is cut in two, passed through the canal, reassembled, and dispatched across the Atlantic with grain. In the danger zone a U‑boat stalks them; the Aurora’s quick helm knocks off the sub’s periscope, but shellfire forces most of the crew into the boats. Trapped below and refusing to panic, Tim cowes his fire room, teams with August Schultz, a German-born shipmate, and uses guile: they ambush the boarding party in the dark, strip their uniforms, lure more men below, then cross to the submarine and seize it at gunpoint. By dawn the Aurora is towing her prize when a U.S. destroyer arrives and escorts them to safety, leaving Tim—whose courage is fueled by his reverence for John Paul Jones—as the unlikely architect of a classic turnaround at sea. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929 Short stories Sea stories World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction Merchant mariners -- Fiction Produced from the March 9, 1929 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77346 118066 118066