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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAin't no wind AMERICAN UNITARIAN ASSOCIATION Barbadoes Baxter began blow boat boom swinging loose bottom bowsprit breast-plate built Cap'n CAPTAIN THOMAS cargo cash caught caulked chain and drag clear comin crawled crew deck derricks diving dress dropped edge engineer eral face feet of water ferry ferry-boat granite cone head heavy Hoboken hold the tiller holes forward hook HOPKINSON SMITH hurl iron island knew lighthouse London harbor look mast minutes Montauk morning never nose ocean tug old salt out-suck plank port pungy Race Rock Light rails reached the Captain's ready rescuing yawl roller safety buoy sail schooner Scotland SCOTT MASTER DIVER shanty shoveler sprang sloop spar buoy spoke the truth steam steamer stern line stone pile stood Captain Scott submarine surf T. A. Scott tain Scott tons trap doors V-shaped gash vessel Wrecking Company wrecking tug Popular passagesPage 51 - ... in a great V-shaped gash. The next instant a shriek went up from hundreds of throats. Women, with blanched faces, caught terror-stricken children in their arms, while men, crazed with fear, scaled the rails and upper decks to escape the plunging of the overthrown horses. A moment more, and the disabled boat careened from the shock and fell over on her beam helpless. Page 53 - The increased weight gradually righted the stricken boat until she regained a nearly even keel. With a threat to throw overboard any man who stirred, he dropped into the engine-room, met the engineer halfway up the ladder, compelled him to return, dragged the mattresses from the crew's bunks, stripped off blankets, racks of clothes, overalls, cotton waste, and rags of carpet, cramming them into the great rent left by the tug's cutwater, until the space of each broken plank was replaced, except one.... Page 52 - ... and before the astonished pilot could catch his breath ran the nose of the Reliance along the rail of the ferry-boat and dropped upon the latter's deck like a cat. If he had fallen from a passing cloud the effect could not have been more startling. Men crowded about him and caught at his hands. Page 43 - ... with all his might. Now began a struggle between the strength of the man and the lunge of the sea. With every succeeding onslaught, and before the savage roller could fully lift the staggering craft to hurl her to destruction, Captain Tom, with the help of the out-suck, would shove her back from the waiting rocks. This was repeated again and again, — the men in the rescuing yawl meanwhile bending every muscle to carry out the Captain's commands. Sometimes his head was free enough to shout his... Page 59 - When the old well-thumbed book was found, he perched his glasses on his nose, and began turning the leaves with his rough tholepin of a finger, stopping at every page to remoisten it, and adding a running commentary of his own over the long-forgotten records. "Yes, — here it is," he said at last. " Knowed I hadn't forgot it. You can read it yourself; my eyes ain't so good as they wuz. Page 55 - Everything, even to the oil-rags, had been used. " Your coat, then. Think of the babies, man, — do you hear them ? " Coats and vests were off in an instant; the engineer on his knees bracing the shattered planking, Captain Scott forcing the garments into the splintered openings. Page 69 - ... work right, — so right that no man need ever perfect it after him. His superb constitution helped, but his indomitable will helped more. He never drank nor smoked, and he neither had time nor desire to play cards. He would go for forty-eight hours in wet clothes and think nothing of sleeping in them. He absolutely did not know what fear was for himself, yet he feared for his men. He would never send a man where he would not go himself, yet he'd go where he wouldn't send the men. He never swore... Page 55 - ... he had so carefully built up, and, before the engineer could protest, had forced his own body into the gap with his arm outside level with the drifting ice. An hour later the disabled ferry-boat, with every soul on board, was towed into the Hoboken slip. When they lifted the captain... Page 58 - ... read it through without a comment, then laid it back on the president's desk, picked up his hat, and moved to the door. "Did you sign it ? " " No ; and I ain't a-goin Page 1 - SMITH) A LIFE SAVER and a sea captain was Thomas A. Scott. When first we hear of him he was a boy of fifteen, captain of a little sloop in the Chesapeake bay, a "bay pungy" which carried wood from port to port. In the bow of the boat was "a fo'castle the size of a dry goods box in which slept the captain and crew. References from web pagesInternet Archive: Details: Captain Thomas A. Scott, master diver ... Captain Thomas A. Scott, Master Diver Bibliographic information
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