Re: Joshua Slucum would not agree - what about Ransome?


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Posted by deb on May 24, 2007 at 03:16:35 from 203.167.146.116 user deb.

In Reply to: Re: Joshua Slucum would not agree (was Re: The Cutty Sark - The ship that died of shame.) posted by Alex Forbes on May 23, 2007 at 21:50:18:

“Drawn up on the beach beside her was another little boat, very like Swallow, but in such a glory of new paint that at first sight they could hardly believe she was the same dingy, beloved old Swallow they had known. The new mast had already been stepped in her, pale gold with sandpapering and linseed oil, and hung with new buff halyards for sail and flag. Spread on the beach, the damage done in the wreck already mended, lay the old brown sail, and beside it lay the boom and the gaff, new–scraped and varnished, together with a coil of rope for the lacings.
“Not one of the four Swallows could say a single word. They rushed at her, and tenderly touched the new paint and found it dry. They looked at the place where, when they saw her last, there had been a patch of old stained groundsheet over gaping broken planks. They could not have told, if they had not known, where that dreadful hole had been. She was a new ship, better than new, for she had renewed her youth and kept her memories and was still at heart the same old Swallow — more, far more, to them than any other vessel could be, anywhere, in the world.”


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