Toilers of the Sea Part I Book 4 Chapter VI - The Luck of a Shipwrecked Crew in Meeting a Sloop

In which the restless Channel sea proves a theatre for the equinoctial gales and treacherous fogs, presenting hazards both tempestuous and spectral to the mariner’s eye. The arrival of the mail-boat Cashmere, bearing new life to the island, is shadowed by whispered news of a shipwrecked crew desperate upon the waters.