West Hartlepool

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West Hartlepool, Scarborough, um, uh...

Yarmouth?

Uh, Yarmouth.

But the man who came in to wake him for his watch on deck would invariably find him with his eyes wide open, flat on his back in the bunk, and glaring irritably from a soiled pillow.

He never wrote any letters, did not seem to hope for news from anywhere, and though he had been heard once to mention West Hartlepool, it was with extreme bitterness and only in connection with the extortionate charges of a boarding-house.

He was one of those men who are picked up at need in the ports of the world.

They are competent enough, appear hopelessly hard up, show no evidence of any sort of vice, and carry about them all the signs of manifest failure.

The only secret of her life was her abject terror of the time when her husband would come home to stay for good.

Also in Typhoon there is the second mate, who never wrote any letters, did not seem to hope for news from anywhere, and though he had been heard once to mention West Hartlepool, it was with extreme bitterness and only in connection with the extortionate charge of a boarding-house.

how conscious we are of jim's english country parsonage of captain anthony's loneliness of marlowe's isolation by this simple thread of connection between the land and the ship the whole character stands human and convincing before us of the sailors on board the narcissus there is not one about whom after his landing we are not curious there is the skipper whose wife comes on board a real lady in a black dress and with a parasol very soon the captain dressed very smartly and in a white shirt went with her over the side we didn't recognise him at all and mr baker the chief mate is not this little farewell enough to make us his friends for life no one waited for him ashore mother died father and two brothers yarmouth fishermen drowned together on the dogger bank sister married and unfriendly quite a lady married to the leading tailor of a little town and its leading politician who did not think his sailor brother-in-law quite respectable enough for him Quite a lady, quite a lady, he thought, sitting down for a moment's rest on the quarter-hatch.

Time enough to go ashore and get a bite and sup and a bed somewhere.

He was famous for his dislike and distrust of the press, but it was pushed to an extreme upon this occasion when he would neither give information to reporters nor would he permit the representative of any paper to set foot in the vessel during the weeks that it lay in the Albert Dock.

There were rumors abroad of some curious and novel construction of the ship which would fit it for deep-sea work, and these rumors were confirmed from the yard of Hunter and Company of West Hartlepool, where the structural changes had actually been carried out.

It was at one time said that the whole bottom of the vessel was detachable, a report which attracted the attention of the underwriters at Lloyd's, who were with some difficulty satisfied upon the point.

The matter was soon forgotten, but it assumes an importance now when the fate of the expedition has been brought once more in so extraordinary a manner to the notice of the public.

He was famous for his dislike and distrust of the press, but it was pushed to an extreme upon this occasion, when he would neither give information to reporters, nor would he permit the representative of any paper to set foot in the vessel during the weeks that it lay in the Albert Dock.

There were rumors abroad of some curious and novel construction of the ship which would fit it for deep-sea work, and these rumors were confirmed from the yard of Hunter and Company of West Hartlepool, where the structural changes had actually been carried out.

It was at one time said that the whole bottom of the vessel was detachable, a report which attracted the attention of the underwriters at Lloyd's, who were with some difficulty satisfied upon the point.

The matter was soon forgotten, but it assumes an importance now when the fate of the expedition has been brought once more in so extraordinary a manner to the notice of the public.