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100 1 _aDorling, H. Taprell
_q(Henry Taprell),
_d1883-1968
245 1 0 _aSea, spray and spindrift
246 1 _aSea, spray & spindrift
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-11-18
505 0 _aTubby's dhow -- The stranding of the "Hoi-Hau" -- The gunner's luck -- Horatio Nelson Chivers -- The salvage of the "Cashmere" -- The inner patrol -- The gun-runners -- The escape of the "Speedwell" -- The luck of the "Tavy".
508 _aChuck Greif, hekula03 and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
520 _a"Sea, spray and spindrift" by H. Taprell Dorling is a collection of naval stories written in the early 20th century. The tales deliver brisk adventure at sea—gun‑running chases, pirate attacks, wartime patrols, and shipboard crises—told with practical seamanship and a cheerful, can‑do tone. Young midshipmen, ship’s boys, warrant officers, and skippers face danger with ingenuity and nerve. The opening of the collection sets the tone: a preface notes the tales first appeared in magazines and that all characters are fictitious. In “Tubby’s Dhow,” a midshipman nicknamed Tubby uses his Arabic to uncover a gun‑running plot in the Gulf of Oman, escapes a hostile village, then helps a cutter seize the arms-laden dhow in a night fight, earning praise after being wounded. “The Stranding of the Hoi‑Hau” follows Captain McCaul, his mate, and the skipper’s son Jim as their steamer grounds off Shantung, fights off pirate junks, and is rescued when Jim signals a British sloop with improvised Morse. “The Gunner’s Luck” shows a Cape patrol torpedo‑boat with a broken shaft being sailed—literally—into Saldanha Bay, leading to commendations for her resourceful gunner and chief artificer. The start of “Horatio Nelson Chivers” introduces a cheeky cook’s boy aboard a tramp steamer that is stopped and seized by a German cruiser; confined officers, watchful sentries, and the boy’s secret plan build suspense as he slips into the captain’s cabin to whisper his idea. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cJ. B. Lippincott Company, 1917
653 _aSea stories, English
653 _aGreat Britain. Royal Navy -- Fiction
653 _aMerchant marine -- Great Britain -- Fiction
700 1 _aPitcher, N. Sotheby
_q(Neville Sotheby),
_d1889-1959
700 1 _aWigfull, W. Edward
_q(William Edward),
_d1875-1944
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77262
999 _c117982
_d117982