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100 1 _aBethel, W. R.
245 1 0 _aHeritage of the sea
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2 1929.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-06-10
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan & the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net
520 _a"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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aSea stories
653 _aShip captains -- Fiction
653 _aAlcohol trafficking -- Fiction
653 _aLong Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) -- Fiction
700 1 _aGraef, Robert A.,
_d1879-1951
830 0 _aProduced from Argosy All-Story Weekly March 2 1929.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76263
999 _c116988
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