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100 1 _aBechdolt, Frederick R.
_q(Frederick Ritchie),
_d1874-1950
245 1 4 _aThe sureness of MacKenzie
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
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the January 5, 1923 issue of Sea Stories magazine.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-09-04
508 _aRoger Frank and Sue Clark
520 _a"The sureness of MacKenzie by Frederick R. Bechdolt" is a nautical short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on a veteran San Francisco bar pilot whose steadfast confidence is tested as he guides a great ocean liner through fog, surf, and shifting currents at the Golden Gate. A telephone summons pulls MacKenzie from home on the eve of his grandchildren’s birthday, and he heads out to the pilot boat in heavy weather, trading wagers and barbed talk with fellow pilots who chafe at his unshakable certainty. He aims to board the Empress, leaps for her Jacob’s ladder in a rolling sea, and takes the bridge, threading her around the breaking bar and down North Channel. When a sudden fog drop and hill wind warp the siren signals and a strong ebb shoves the ship toward disaster at Fort Point, the captain panics; MacKenzie holds his course by feel, sound, and experience, seemingly steering into danger to clear Lime Point. The fog thins, the harbor opens, and the liner steams in safely. Home in time for the party, he dotes on the children while his family, amused and admiring, sums him up in a phrase: he is so sure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1923
653 _aShort stories
653 _aSea stories
653 _aSan Francisco Bay Area (Calif.) -- Fiction
653 _aPilots and pilotage -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the January 5, 1923 issue of Sea Stories magazine.
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/seastoriesv03n0519230105
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76821
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