About this story
The owner's nephew, Guy Foster, argues instead for a lifeboat on the Kent coast, having watched a wreck take twenty-two lives within sight of land, then boards Nancy with old Captain Bluenose as an extra hand for the voyage home. Before dawn, a cry and a splash send you over the side on a rope, and you haul aboard a woman who cannot yet give her name.
How it opens
Mr Denham summoned you to his Redwharf Lane office while the schooner Nancy awaited orders.
Mr DenhamTake her first to Dover on tomorrow morning's flood, Bax; another survey is unnecessary.
Your inspection had found unsound timber and repairs incomplete below the confident paint.
Mr DenhamI appoint captains to navigate my ships, not to criticize the property that employs them.
Choose
Name the exact planks and request a surveyor's written judgment.
Ask him to sail one tide later after temporary reinforcement.