WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:06.000 Fed up with the every day grind, tired out from 2 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.080 the summer heat, want to get away from it all. 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:19.960 We offer you escape, escape designed to free you from 4 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:22.440 the four walls of to day for a half hour 5 00:00:22.519 --> 00:00:23.800 of high adventure. 6 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:33.079 You are clinging precariously to a diving, pitching longboat lashed 7 00:00:33.119 --> 00:00:36.759 by mountainous seas in the middle of a hurricane, and 8 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:40.920 at the helm driving you on is a man bent 9 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.000 on revenge and willing to kill for it. 10 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:57.119 To night we escape to the open sea with an 11 00:00:57.159 --> 00:01:00.880 ancient tramp steamer and its fighting captain, as that far 12 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.319 Buckley told it in his ironic story happened. 13 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:23.120 Yeah, well, the court has no more questions. 14 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.760 Step down, please, no, thank you, sir, I mean your honor. 15 00:01:31.640 --> 00:01:36.319 Well, Captain Weatherfield, you've just had the complaining witness. Have 16 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:38.239 you anything to say in your own defense? 17 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:42.480 Here hit the man about a bit, No doubt that, 18 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:46.079 Joanna like, with half chance, they'd have founded his blasted 19 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:51.120 hit off, quiet riot, We have more than the court. 20 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.640 Then you admit the charges, Captain Weatherfield. Then I hit him, Yeah, 21 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:02.000 but had stinuit in circumstances, Janna see, and what were they? 22 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:06.000 He laughed at my ship at the Wakeling, your honor, 23 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:08.879 this fineer freighter has ever steamed out of here on 24 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:12.080 the Liverpool Run. Don't quite stood there on the wharf, 25 00:02:12.639 --> 00:02:15.520 squint eyed son of a landloved lawyer. He said, my 26 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:18.599 ship looked like an old woman with her dress on backwards, 27 00:02:18.960 --> 00:02:23.479 her hair not combed. That's when I flighten him out. Yes, 28 00:02:23.599 --> 00:02:26.039 and I still say that's what she looks like. 29 00:02:26.240 --> 00:02:29.560 God, why you confounded, Pip squeak. I'll break your heart. 30 00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:31.919 Send him down. Captain weather will not. 31 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:41.199 Go ahead, Come huy. The card that happen Weatherfield can't 32 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:42.639 turn Weatherfield. 33 00:02:42.719 --> 00:02:45.919 This court finds you guilty of assault and battery is 34 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.639 charged and sentences you to seven days. 35 00:02:49.360 --> 00:02:53.639 In the now Bristol City jail. All right, Bill, knock 36 00:02:53.719 --> 00:02:54.039 him up. 37 00:03:01.400 --> 00:03:04.680 And that's the way it started, with the captain getting 38 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.120 seven days in the new Bristol jail. But it went 39 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:10.879 a whole lot further before it was over. It was 40 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.120 like a bolt of chain lightning that may take a 41 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:17.960 dozen strange turns of more before it finally strikes home. 42 00:03:18.319 --> 00:03:23.800 And actually, of course the Wakeland was a funny looking 43 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.599 old scowl. She'd had thirty years in the North Atlantic, 44 00:03:27.680 --> 00:03:30.439 with never a part being replaced, so long as there 45 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.039 was some way of patching it up. Yeah, she was 46 00:03:34.080 --> 00:03:37.520 a regular joke of a ship, as to everybody except 47 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:41.719 Captain Weatherfield. Those of us who were officers to board 48 00:03:41.759 --> 00:03:44.719 her had learned a long time before not to hint 49 00:03:44.879 --> 00:03:47.879 anything like that to him. Now she was the Queen 50 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.639 Mary and the Normandy and his first born child all 51 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:55.319 rolled up into one. So you can bet your life 52 00:03:55.439 --> 00:03:58.439 we all kept sober faces when the captain finally came 53 00:03:58.479 --> 00:03:59.960 aboard at the end of the week. 54 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:06.199 Mister Conley, Yes, sir, well everything in order, will we 55 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:07.439 be able to sail in an hour? 56 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:09.840 Yes, sir, I've been keeping her ready for the last 57 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.080 four days just in case. 58 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:16.360 I'm fully aware that we're four days past schedule, and 59 00:04:16.399 --> 00:04:18.759 the reason for it will not be discussed on board. 60 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.319 Is that clear? Yes, captain been badly treated in this town, 61 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:28.079 mister Conley, thrown behind bars like some feline docret. I 62 00:04:28.120 --> 00:04:30.839 don't feel good about it. If it takes me the 63 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.480 rest of my life, I'm going to even up the score. 64 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:34.839 Do you understand that? 65 00:04:35.120 --> 00:04:36.759 I think so? 66 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:41.639 You think so, sir? Yes, sir, all right, then button 67 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:52.000 up your color and go get up ahead of steam. 68 00:04:52.240 --> 00:04:54.959 So three days later, we were plowing through a heavy 69 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:58.240 C five hundred and eighty miles out on the Atlantic. 70 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:02.079 The spray was freezing the rigging. We were flirting with 71 00:05:02.160 --> 00:05:04.759 the fringe of a northeast hurricane. 72 00:05:10.480 --> 00:05:20.279 Blast this double blasted confounded wind. It's Connley. Well how's 73 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:21.360 she looking, mister Connley? 74 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:23.560 Oh, not so bad. We're taking the season our quarter, 75 00:05:23.600 --> 00:05:25.879 and so far we're making only about four inches of 76 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:26.560 water an hour. 77 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:30.240 Four inches of water an hour, sir, yes, sir, good. 78 00:05:31.680 --> 00:05:33.199 Then we'll take a chance on it. 79 00:05:33.720 --> 00:05:36.439 We'll take a chance on what, sir. 80 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.439 And distress message just picking up the wireless sheck. Yeah, 81 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:41.319 take a look. 82 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:46.639 The freighter Johannes out of New Bristol, main shaft, broken auxiliaries, 83 00:05:46.680 --> 00:05:50.279 out of commission ship and water fires latitude forty six 84 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:57.000 thirty longit two let me see, Yeah, about ninety mile 85 00:05:57.079 --> 00:05:58.319 from a snob in the west. 86 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:03.560 Yeah, that's right, miss Conley. Layout the course. What we 87 00:06:03.600 --> 00:06:06.439 should sight her sometime around dawn if we hold a 88 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:07.720 full speed all night. 89 00:06:07.680 --> 00:06:11.959 Full speed, get into what hurricane wait clenan fall apart 90 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:12.639 in two hours. 91 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:16.360 I doubt it. She's a good ship. Layout the cost. 92 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:18.720 Yeah, but that Johannes is right in the main ship 93 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:20.959 in lane. Somebody else has bound to pick her up 94 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:24.839 before morning. Anyway, mister Connolly, we can hope not. What 95 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.360 do you mean hope not? 96 00:06:26.720 --> 00:06:30.279 Evidently you didn't notice her, registrate, mister Connolly, she's out 97 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:31.040 of New Bristol. 98 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:32.560 Oh what of it? 99 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:34.920 That, as you may recall, is the town that threw 100 00:06:34.959 --> 00:06:38.399 me into jail, got all the papers like as not. 101 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:40.759 My daughters up in Maine have probably read about it. 102 00:06:40.759 --> 00:06:43.439 For now, I'll not have them thinking their father's a 103 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:45.680 man who does nothing but go round punching people in 104 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:46.079 the noggin. 105 00:06:46.199 --> 00:06:48.279 All right, but what's it got to do with this? 106 00:06:48.720 --> 00:06:51.879 I'm going to be alongside the Johannes before anybody else is, 107 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:55.279 mister Connolly. I'm going to rescue every man about her. 108 00:06:55.959 --> 00:06:57.560 Then I'm going to take him back to New Bristol 109 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:01.480 and get a public apology out of that. Now, see 110 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:03.000 the death gets in the papers too. 111 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:05.439 I've never heard of anything so crazy. 112 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:10.240 You've never heard of, mister Conley. Lay out that costs 113 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.480 now before I get mad decide to punch somebody's dusted 114 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:14.079 head off. 115 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:27.800 Well, the little cock of the walk made good the 116 00:07:27.879 --> 00:07:31.360 first part of his plan, all right, in spite of 117 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:34.160 a broken steam injector that had to be patched up 118 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:37.519 with rigging wire. By shortly after dawn, he had us 119 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:41.560 hove to half cable length off from the Johannes. She 120 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:45.000 was down by the stern and distant, badly but still afloat. 121 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:48.199 The wind was howling like a banshee, and the flying 122 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:51.879 spume was freezing all over our decks. There was no 123 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:54.360 doubt that what the next part of our job is 124 00:07:54.360 --> 00:07:56.720 going to be a lot tougher than the first time. 125 00:07:57.079 --> 00:08:01.959 He counley the boat two together, Yes, sir, there'll be 126 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:04.639 five seamen and the third mate, I'll take charge myself. 127 00:08:04.800 --> 00:08:07.399 Lay the third made of bard, I'll take charge percent 128 00:08:07.800 --> 00:08:09.480 It's my show. I'm going to run it. 129 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:12.959 All right, Champion, whatever you're saying, Well, what's holding this up? 130 00:08:13.480 --> 00:08:16.240 Let's get this boat over his side. Not the captain 131 00:08:16.759 --> 00:08:17.879 Carvin is trying to break a. 132 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:20.920 Loose Well, he's not cracking walnuts at the tea paty 133 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:25.040 hair chips. Give me that mellet, mister Rowitts, Yes, sir, 134 00:08:25.439 --> 00:08:27.519 you'll stay on one. 135 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:28.600 But oil sleep. 136 00:08:28.519 --> 00:08:33.919 Running waves on that pretty high, pretty high I haven't 137 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:36.519 seen him anyhow well, I can't help it. 138 00:08:36.639 --> 00:08:38.120 Mister Cunnley, I've got. 139 00:08:40.559 --> 00:08:45.080 All ready well right there away. 140 00:08:53.360 --> 00:08:55.480 Or the seven of us who went overside in the 141 00:08:55.480 --> 00:08:58.519 long boat. That command was the beginning of a nightmare. 142 00:08:59.159 --> 00:09:01.639 If things had been bad up on the Wakeland's deck, 143 00:09:01.919 --> 00:09:04.440 there were a hundred times worse down there in the 144 00:09:04.559 --> 00:09:08.320 very midst of that smash, in that tumbling mail stream 145 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.120 of water and wind, a continuous driving spray was torn 146 00:09:12.159 --> 00:09:15.440 from the wave crests and froze solid on the gunwales 147 00:09:15.519 --> 00:09:19.240 and the boat seats and on our faces. One man 148 00:09:19.360 --> 00:09:23.039 baled constantly, while the others pulled away on the oars 149 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:26.960 with breeding hands. And even then we were never far 150 00:09:27.000 --> 00:09:32.519 from foundering. Captain Weatherfield sat in the stern and shouted orders. 151 00:09:32.519 --> 00:09:35.360 None of us could hear, but we could see his face, 152 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.080 and that was enough to keep us at it. With 153 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.480 a halo of sheet glass round his souester and his 154 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:45.480 gray beard turned to a frozen mass of jumbled icicles. 155 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:49.799 He looked like Neptune come to life, or maybe even 156 00:09:49.840 --> 00:10:01.120 more like like the devil himself. It took us over 157 00:10:01.200 --> 00:10:04.200 two hours before we finally hauled in against the rusty 158 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:06.759 side of the battle. Old Johannes h. 159 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:17.240 H the deck Hi, here's what. 160 00:10:15.759 --> 00:10:16.799 You'll have to jump for. 161 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:17.000 It. 162 00:10:17.600 --> 00:10:22.519 Can't use the letter she he's too heavy, understand. 163 00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:25.519 All ready here. 164 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:27.120 Wait till we come up. 165 00:10:27.159 --> 00:10:30.440 But as swell we hold as steady as we can, 166 00:10:31.799 --> 00:10:36.440 and whine, no, not yet, lord. 167 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.039 He fell on the gun lastic fool told him to eat. 168 00:10:39.080 --> 00:10:42.200 He smashed in his chest. Why it's the captain of 169 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:42.759 the ship that. 170 00:10:42.799 --> 00:10:44.440 He had no business jump in fast anyhow? 171 00:10:44.639 --> 00:10:49.440 Hol him aboard, mister candy, get him right away, all right, ready. 172 00:10:49.200 --> 00:10:54.679 On deck, my eyes, all right there, steady. 173 00:10:54.559 --> 00:10:59.240 Now, God, I'm gonna stole that man af there on deck. 174 00:10:59.399 --> 00:11:01.399 Wait well wait, wait. 175 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:06.200 Now, conny a plastic feet, fire hand you are there, 176 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:10.960 jump down wait you ben helped him off. There it 177 00:11:11.039 --> 00:11:17.200 comes another catch him, catch him good back horse shoes 178 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:19.720 sad by four and a half night there tack comes 179 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:23.519 to another one, honors toady, keep one or against the 180 00:11:23.600 --> 00:11:26.200 side there anybody else up there with his gutro. 181 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:31.399 No, sir, others have lost overboard last night. All right, 182 00:11:31.440 --> 00:11:33.559 then back off yours. You have plan of get ahold 183 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:36.440 of that order. He can't do it very well with 184 00:11:36.440 --> 00:11:38.879 with only one arm, captain, cutting you mean one arm? 185 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:41.320 He broke his arm a couple of minutes ago when 186 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:42.600 we bumped the side and give. 187 00:11:42.559 --> 00:11:45.559 Him a bucket. Least he can bail. All right, let's go. 188 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:55.720 It was six hours before we finally got back aboard 189 00:11:55.759 --> 00:11:59.360 the Wakeland, but we did get back, and I doubt 190 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.039 if any of them but Captain Weatherfield could have done it. 191 00:12:02.679 --> 00:12:05.960 True enough, he fainted across the engine room hatch once 192 00:12:06.000 --> 00:12:09.480 we were on board. But I don't forget. He was 193 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.480 seventy two years old. He'd taken a crew of six 194 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:15.000 out in an open boat in the high seas in 195 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.159 the middle of a hurricane, rescued six more men off 196 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.879 a sinking ship, and brought the whole twelve back alive. 197 00:12:22.080 --> 00:12:24.919 Well one of them, of course, was only barely alive, 198 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.039 and that was Captain Miller of the Johannes. He was 199 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.320 still unconscious. I had him put in a bunk and 200 00:12:30.519 --> 00:12:34.799 hoped for the best, and then I turned in to 201 00:12:34.919 --> 00:12:47.799 grab a few hours sleep. I guess it was some 202 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.639 time after midnight when the third mate called me. I 203 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:54.480 got dressed, went down, woke up the captain. 204 00:12:55.720 --> 00:13:00.320 Confounded mister Conley, Ugh didn't get the man. He close 205 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:02.600 his eyes, bought this ship that somebody roused him out 206 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:03.000 of his bunk. 207 00:13:03.120 --> 00:13:06.960 I'm sorry, captain, thought you ought to know. Miller's conscious 208 00:13:06.960 --> 00:13:09.679 now and wants to see you. He thinks he is he's. 209 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:17.279 Dying, dying, is it? I'll see about that. Where's my pants? Here? 210 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:18.639 You are, sir, I thank you? 211 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:20.559 Yah. 212 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:23.480 It might be a good thing if Miller did die, 213 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:27.960 According to his first mate, Larson Well, Larson says they 214 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:31.279 had plenty of warning this storm, but Miller drove straight 215 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.639 on into it. He was racing for port. 216 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:35.519 Or racing for port. Yeah, bad business. 217 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.399 There'll be an inquiry on it. He'll lose his ticket 218 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:39.279 when they find out. 219 00:13:40.039 --> 00:13:43.559 It's also bad business, mister Connley. When first mates talk 220 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:48.039 out of turn, come on, where is he? 221 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.559 I put him in the cabin off the wardroom and 222 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:51.960 the third mates in there with him. 223 00:13:51.960 --> 00:13:55.360 Now, how is the ship heading New South? 224 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:58.360 We're running before the wind. Can't do anything else. 225 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:01.440 I told you, mister Connley. It costs for New Bristol pie. 226 00:14:01.440 --> 00:14:03.720 No, but we can't do it. The main boilers out 227 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:06.240 and we're on the auxiliaries. May take two days to 228 00:14:06.279 --> 00:14:06.600 fix it. 229 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:10.360 Con found in the luck risk my life to rescue 230 00:14:10.360 --> 00:14:13.000 a man tries to die on me. Now that bone 231 00:14:13.039 --> 00:14:14.759 hit engineers let the main boiler break down. 232 00:14:15.000 --> 00:14:16.960 That's not his fault. It should have been replaced five 233 00:14:17.039 --> 00:14:17.759 years ago. 234 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:19.480 Five years ago. What's wister Connley? 235 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:20.440 Five years ago? 236 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:26.919 Sir? Good here we are? Oh mad to got to here? 237 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:27.200 Sir? 238 00:14:27.720 --> 00:14:31.639 I was getting worried. It's all right, mister Roberts. Yes, 239 00:14:31.679 --> 00:14:34.440 stand back a bit to hold the night up. Yes there, 240 00:14:34.639 --> 00:14:41.879 that's fine, evening, Captain Miller, even captain, ye're in seven 241 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:49.039 pain night ticket. Yeah, there's a something sharp sticking at 242 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:55.440 my chest getting worse. H something sharp eye, No doubt 243 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.919 they broken in the rib poking into your lungs. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 244 00:15:00.240 --> 00:15:04.919 I guess. Hey, he feels like there's a rib gun here. 245 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:13.120 Oh eh, well, I want to make this statement. 246 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:17.279 The log I do figure you're getting ready to die? 247 00:15:17.320 --> 00:15:24.039 Is that it? Yeah? Not much chance? Shouldn't I shouldn't 248 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.000 have jump first, No, he shouldn't have understand you was 249 00:15:28.080 --> 00:15:33.039 racing for pot, drove straight into the star. Yeah ahead. 250 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:39.480 It's my wife, her first baby, wanted to be with her. 251 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:40.600 What's he saying to her? 252 00:15:40.799 --> 00:15:44.919 His wife's thinking of having a baby. Rabbish statement. 253 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:46.919 Responsibility. 254 00:15:47.039 --> 00:15:51.039 We'll discuss that leader keptain. That lung gets a hole 255 00:15:51.039 --> 00:15:52.360 punched in it. You're done for. 256 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:54.919 He's practically done for now, you know. 257 00:15:54.919 --> 00:15:57.679 Mister Conley saw a doctor open up a man once, 258 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.960 take a broken rib bottle. I can remember fairly well 259 00:16:00.960 --> 00:16:03.440 how he went about it, and there ought to be 260 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:04.639 some CHLOROFYB on board. 261 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:06.559 Captain Weathers. 262 00:16:06.559 --> 00:16:10.639 You shut up, mister Connley. Captain Miller, it's one chance, Nmidian, 263 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.399 but you've got no chance. Now, how about it? 264 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:22.519 Eh, anything doesn't matter, be an inquiry report. Better to 265 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:23.240 die where. 266 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:26.480 We'll worry about that later. All right, then go find 267 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.879 that chlorophy, mister Roberts, yes, sir, and bring me a 268 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.080 bar of soap. Yes, And get a couple of their 269 00:16:31.120 --> 00:16:34.519 little dives whatever they call them, out of the medicine locker. Yes, 270 00:16:35.559 --> 00:16:38.159 mister Connley, go wake up that first fate of his. 271 00:16:38.360 --> 00:16:40.480 Get him in here. We'll need a witness to Captain 272 00:16:40.480 --> 00:16:44.519 Miller's consent, and mister Connley find chips and borrow's chest 273 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.240 of tools. Never can tell what you'll find whence you 274 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:48.279 start to open a man up. 275 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:02.320 In ten minutes, we have everything ready. Larson signed a 276 00:17:02.360 --> 00:17:06.039 statement swearing that Captain Miller had agreed to him and 277 00:17:06.119 --> 00:17:08.720 the third mate with his face white as a sheet. 278 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.400 Stood at the head of the bunk, ripping chloroform under 279 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.960 a towel and holding it over Miller's nose and mouth. 280 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.599 I held a light in one hand and kept the 281 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:23.079 other on the patient's pulse while Captain Weatherfield rolled up 282 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.039 his sleeves and started in on a major operation that 283 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:30.400 he thought he'd seen some doctor perform. 284 00:17:30.119 --> 00:17:40.200 Once everything snugging brober Has he seemed to be getting along, 285 00:17:40.240 --> 00:17:41.720 mister Connolly, I don't know. 286 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:43.000 He's still breathing. 287 00:17:43.440 --> 00:17:45.880 No, he's breathing, man his chest, I am operating on. 288 00:17:46.640 --> 00:17:47.440 How's his pulse? 289 00:17:47.799 --> 00:17:48.319 Pretty weak? 290 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:49.920 No worse than it was? 291 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:55.839 Hm. Keep that chloroform dripping, mister Roberts, Yes, sir, where 292 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:02.440 there's no time like the prison. Oh all that like steady, 293 00:18:02.480 --> 00:18:07.920 mister Conley, sir, steady yourself. Now let me see I 294 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.359 think that doctor did it like like this. M m 295 00:18:13.160 --> 00:18:19.440 I've used up half the chlorophorm captain. He'd been dripping Roberts. Mm. Well, 296 00:18:20.119 --> 00:18:23.599 well now don't remember anything like that being in there. 297 00:18:24.599 --> 00:18:29.599 See now, pulses getting pretty weak, mister Connley. Don't bother me, 298 00:18:30.160 --> 00:18:33.599 got more important things here to think about. Mm hm, 299 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:39.359 that's it. Here's the end. Of the rabar right now, 300 00:18:39.640 --> 00:18:43.079 if I can, uh, just that's all right, let it go. 301 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:46.880 Don't need the knife anymore, con Founded, Conley, give me 302 00:18:46.880 --> 00:18:49.759 a little more room to work in Kevin small enough stairs. 303 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.160 Captain, his pulse is stopped. 304 00:18:52.319 --> 00:18:57.039 No it hasn't, mister Connley. Now, now where the devil? 305 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:58.400 Doesn't that rid come loose? 306 00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:02.119 When I HiT's no use, Captain, he's dead. His heart 307 00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:02.839 stopped beating. 308 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:06.039 Mister Connley, don't stand there. Try to tell me his 309 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:08.720 heart stopped when I can see it beating right now, 310 00:19:09.359 --> 00:19:12.359 mister Larson Er, yes, sir, Would you look at that 311 00:19:12.400 --> 00:19:14.839 tool chest behind you? See if you can find me 312 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:16.039 a pair of pliers. 313 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.960 I doubt if there's ever been another operation like it 314 00:19:27.000 --> 00:19:30.880 before or since. By all rights, Captain Miller should have 315 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.880 died ten times over right there on the bunk. 316 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:36.119 Only he didn't. 317 00:19:41.279 --> 00:19:44.279 He was unconscious for forty eight hours. But on the 318 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:46.799 fifth day he was sitting up on a deck chair 319 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:49.960 and cuss him because somebody had slung his broken rib 320 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:53.799 overboard instead of saving it so he could whittle out 321 00:19:53.799 --> 00:20:01.799 a letter opener. We were driven six hundred miles to 322 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:04.519 the south before the storm blew itself out and we 323 00:20:04.599 --> 00:20:07.480 got the main boiler back into operation and could lay 324 00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:11.440 a course for New Bristol and three days away from port. 325 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.880 Captain Weatherfield called all of us officers of the Wakeland 326 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:18.079 together in the chart room, along with first mate Larson 327 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:19.000 of the Johannes. 328 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:23.559 Gentlemen, there may be some questions in your minds in 329 00:20:23.599 --> 00:20:26.359 regard to what this meeting is all about. No doubt 330 00:20:26.400 --> 00:20:30.759 you're wondering, even if you aren't asking. Am I right? Well, yes, sir, 331 00:20:31.160 --> 00:20:33.880 we have been trying to guess. Then I'll tell you, gentlemen. 332 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.119 I called this meeting to put a stop to certain 333 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:39.960 idle rumors which I hear have been floated around. 334 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.440 Just what kind of rumors, Captain Weatherfield. 335 00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:47.319 Limb which says that Captain Miller of Lateship Johannes deliberately 336 00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:50.400 drove hidden into a storm while racing to make port. 337 00:20:50.559 --> 00:20:53.720 Eh, there's no luman about that. It's what he was 338 00:20:53.799 --> 00:20:55.720 doing as his first mate. 339 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:58.640 I should know, and I say he wasn't, mister Lasson 340 00:20:59.279 --> 00:21:01.599 the way, I think it got caught by the storm 341 00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:04.720 without any wanting. He gave orders for full speed to 342 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:06.920 try to beat out of it. A couple of hours later, 343 00:21:07.079 --> 00:21:11.599 mainshaft broke left him helpless without stirageway. Could happen to anybody? 344 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:17.960 Maybe only it didn't. I was there, Captain Weatherfield. I 345 00:21:18.119 --> 00:21:21.160 know what happened, and there's five of my crew left 346 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:21.960 to back me up. 347 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:24.640 They'll pack up anything you say, mister Larson. 348 00:21:24.839 --> 00:21:28.240 You know that, and there's nothing to talk about when 349 00:21:28.240 --> 00:21:31.160 the Board of Inquiry gets through with Miller. He won't 350 00:21:31.200 --> 00:21:33.799 command another ship as long as he lives. 351 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:37.519 So there's not going to be any board of inquiry. 352 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:40.680 Ah, maybe that's not up to you. 353 00:21:40.799 --> 00:21:42.240 Which is what we're here to decide. 354 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:45.279 I don't get it. Captain Miller's a rat. He was 355 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:48.279 the first one to jump when we come alongside. Anything 356 00:21:48.319 --> 00:21:50.400 that happens to him serves him right now, Why should 357 00:21:50.440 --> 00:21:51.599 you stick up for him? 358 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:53.279 My personal opinion of the man has nothing to do 359 00:21:53.359 --> 00:21:56.359 with this, Miss Cudley. I say there'll be no bout 360 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:59.799 of inquiry because it suits my purposes, said the feat. 361 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.559 And just what are your purposes? Captain? 362 00:22:03.000 --> 00:22:05.279 I drove my ship ninety miles off of course in 363 00:22:05.279 --> 00:22:08.039 a hurricane, risked my life in an open boat just 364 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:10.759 for one reason, mister Larson, because I knew you were 365 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:12.079 registered out of New Bristol. 366 00:22:12.519 --> 00:22:14.160 Ah, so that's. 367 00:22:13.960 --> 00:22:17.400 It, I mister Connley, that's it. I updated on. A 368 00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:19.079 man saved his life just so he could stand up 369 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:21.759 alongside of me. Have our pictures taken for the newspapers? 370 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:25.279 I get it. So you don't want some messy board 371 00:22:25.279 --> 00:22:27.480 of inquiry, don one scandal in the story of your 372 00:22:27.480 --> 00:22:30.440 noble rescue on the high Sea? Eh? You want to 373 00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:31.480 be a blessed. 374 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:33.759 Hero, mister Larson. Being a hero has got nothing to 375 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:35.799 do with it. But I am planning to get a 376 00:22:36.039 --> 00:22:38.839 public apology out of the town of New Bristol, and 377 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:41.000 you or nobody else is going to do anything to 378 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:41.359 stop me. 379 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:43.480 Oh well, it's too bad you haven't got the whole 380 00:22:43.519 --> 00:22:44.440 say about it, captain. 381 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:46.880 And it's too bad you're bullheaded, sit on and swearing 382 00:22:46.920 --> 00:22:49.599 away your captain's ticket. That you forced me to teach you. 383 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:52.119 A esson And just how are you aiming to do 384 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:52.799 that by. 385 00:22:52.759 --> 00:22:57.920 Knucking a little sense into your thick knugin something like this? Oh? 386 00:22:58.759 --> 00:22:59.440 So what's up? 387 00:22:59.480 --> 00:22:59.680 Fight? 388 00:23:00.440 --> 00:23:05.680 All right? Come on, captain, teach. 389 00:23:05.519 --> 00:23:08.160 Me a lesson, and the one you learned in China. 390 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:14.039 I teach you all right? Have you got yeah, mister Larson? Well, 391 00:23:14.799 --> 00:23:17.480 catch up, all right, he's not a par. 392 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:26.799 Of dividers, so you t like to step in whatever? Well, lasten, okay, 393 00:23:26.839 --> 00:23:27.799 what about his father? 394 00:23:31.799 --> 00:23:32.200 I'm through. 395 00:23:32.920 --> 00:23:35.079 They're going to be a body of inquiry. 396 00:23:36.599 --> 00:23:39.920 Now I'll back up anything you say, good? 397 00:23:40.160 --> 00:23:42.880 What about the rest of you? Anything I say? 398 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:43.880 Go yes? 399 00:23:44.920 --> 00:23:46.960 All right, then get back on. 400 00:23:47.079 --> 00:23:47.359 Watch. 401 00:23:48.000 --> 00:23:49.680