February 11, 2025 • 30 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:27):
The Departed Company of Wilmington, Delaware, makers of Better Things
for Better Living through Chemistry, presents the Cavalcade of America.
Tonight's play The Gig of the Saginaw to Night's Star
Gary Merrill, as Cox and Halford.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Eighteen hundred miles west of Hawaii, a pinpoint in the
vastness of the Pacific stands Midway Island. It was this
far frontier, barely known to most Americans before World War Two,
that provided our armed forces with their most effective advanced
base against the enemy. As early as the year eighteen seventy,
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American naval planners had pinpointed Midway as a strategic asset
had dispatched the USS Saginaw to set up a coaling
station on the tiny island.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
This is the story of the men of the Saginaw,
the men who gave us Midway.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It had been a burning hot six months on Midway,
but now the coaling station was up, and we were
once again at sea, and with luck in a fair wind,
we'd have Christmas dinner in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
On this first night out Formaster Francis set the wheel
as I came up to relieve him.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Cox and Harvard ready to relieve the wheel, Quartermaster, and
welcome you.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Are to it, Pete, Lieutenant top it's her, yes, Quartermaster,
O snow by east, what pedals ahead? Once heard? Helm's relieved?
Good night, sir, good night?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And where's the justice in that? He peace? Justice in
what me having to say?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yes, sir, and no, sir to a lad that's got
a flush where his beard ought to.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Be Another lieutenants are right, ay, he's wait behind the
ears night night.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Who has the wheel? Cox and Halvitz, Sir, mind your
helm tonight steer nothing to the.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
South, nothing to the south, hy ey, ser. Stormy was
a fine old man.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Too me way storm alone, Oh Stormy, he is dead
and gone to me a way storm evening, Coxing evening, Kevin,
I haven't heard that chandy in many a moon.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Pull a storm along. Well, it's still being sung on
the clippers.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Dian race cocks and the clipper ships and the man
who sailed them, who don't Talbot mass.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You is iSER.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You don't agree, do you, Coxon about the clipper ships? No, Sir,
I don't agree.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I think metality shipping out under sail long after every
one of these steam kettles has blown itself the Kingdom.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Come we'll see. We'll see, Lieutenant. Wind seems too freshened
it has in the last hour, sir. If the wind
picks up on him, all we may set in to
its ocean island. You better watch for it, I iSER, hi,
the mass hat a sharp watch tonight, report land or
break us on the starboard bow as soon as sighted
what it is?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
How's that gang of contract is doing, Lieutenant? Now I've
throwed them up forward, sir. They seem content enough as well.
They might be after six months on Midway Island, and
one might ask why the Navy has spent all that
time and money on a useless spit of sand like
Midway Island. Why, mister Talbot, For good and sufficient reason.
It may look like a barren wastel. But to those
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who can see beyond the tip of their nose, Midway
Island is a link in the chain that'll bind our
trading ship with all the wealth of Asia. Maybe not now,
but in time to come, Midway will be a good
partial land owned. Break out your atlas some evening and
you'll see why, mister Talbot. My I, sir, I'll be
in my cabin if you raise laugh. Pleasant to be
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headed home again, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Conson her voyage home is always pleasant, sir, even if
it is by a steamboat with soot to foul air
and smoke the filthy the sky.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The USS Saginaw was a.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Wooden paddlewheeled park, a mule of a ship, neither horse
nor donkey, as they say, I half free to the sea.
She carried her canvas smart enough, but the wooden paddle
wheels stuck to her side gave her the look of
a barnyard hen waddling through the brine. She was cranky,
ill tempered, and trouble was built in the jim. A
couple of hours later, I was still at the wheel.
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The wind was much stronger now, and Lieutenant Talbot sent
for the captain.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is your Talbot?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You might be in for a gale, sir, A bit
of trim, Some say, I Icer, that's your court north
by east. You better stand into the wind, I icer,
Like are.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
The deck right, fiser right?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Fer rakers, all engines pull back, all engines full back,
We're away pretty painful the rape put the helm, pull over,
pull over? She answer great, right on a hard over
the helm.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Hard all hands time deck, All hands, tom deck, hover
your part it for lester, All hands home deck.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
We piled on the reef, and within minutes the ship's
company was massed.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
On day, All present, make air reports, all stoven forward,
keel smashed or cargo forward flooded. The ship's working on
a reef pretty badly, sir. Engineering all engineering space flooded, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Second division, rudder's gone lower, gudget carried away very well.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Return to your division, quoting all hands to move stores topside.
Get everything you can. We're abandoning ship.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It was a night not soon forgotten. The wind howled
down from the north.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And every blast helped the reef chew deeper into the
timber of the ship's bottom. By some miracle, we salvaged
a goodly amount of stores, piled them into the boats,
headed over the wreath towards ocean island.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Next morning, Captain the Card called us together the talbot.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Have you inventoried the stores? Just finish, sir. If we
go easy, we should have enough food for three months,
maybe four. And uh, the water not a drop on
the island. But we've set the evaporator up and we
can feed it with wood from the wreck. It's to
be used for drinking only. That's an order. Captain Sir,
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what is it? How long do you hear it'll be
before they miss us in Honolulu and send out a
search party. I'm going to be honest with you, all
of you. We weren't doing California until January. They won't
miss us until February, and we can't expect a ship
here until March. That's six months.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Six months.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Our stores won't last half that long, No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They won't.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We're not going to wait for rescue. Luckily, the sagonaws
passed on the reef. We're going to pull her apart
and build another ship small. She'll be cramped and crowded,
but wheeled sailor to Honolulu, and you can take my
word for that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now that's the plan.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'll tolerate no skylocking. Every man is to do his
share or so help me. When we launch our ship,
we'll leave him here to rot.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We set up the jib boom on the highest sand
dune and nailed the flag of distressed to it on
the ship's timber.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
We build a lookout manned it around the clock.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It was the third day on Ocean Island that Lieutenant talbot,
Quartermaster Francis and myself took the mid morning watch on
the tower.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You stand your watch and peer into nothing, knowing that
nothing will come this way. Ah, not so much as
a laundsome way. You never can tell a trader might pass.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's a fine game of make believe. We're playing, Lieutenant,
make believe, hy, sir, make believe you saying a trader
might pass, and the camp and getting the men to
scramble around playing and building a boat.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You don't think it can be done.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I know it can't be done. Not in six months,
not in double that time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
With the tools we have, we'll all be chewing sand
before the rids are warped.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm not fire.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It's a chance to get off, the only chance.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh well, there's another, and it's right down there on
the beach. A bit bashed into the gunwales. But she
can be repaired. Gig gissey worthy and with a good
hand at the tiller, she could make.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Hawaii eighteen hundred miles. In an open boat, it would
be suicide.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So ninety men on a sand boom with little food
and no water, what would you call that?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's a mad idea. We could deck the gig over,
and I have a sail plan in mind.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Have you talked of this to anyone else? No, sir,
then don't and that goes for you. Francis hy isir.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It was Sunday church service that Captain Sicard sent for me.
When I got to his tenth Lieutenant Talbot was with
him the gurrant.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Talbot tells me that you have some doubts about our
being able to build a ship that'll take us off
the island. Aye, sir, I have my doubts, don't you.
The men have got to be kept busy. They've got
to work and think they have a chance. Otherwise, well,
with hope gone and just waiting for death, that'd be savage.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
As of no time has the Lieutenant mentioned the gig, sir, Yes,
I told the captain everything.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Cox suppose we did fit the gig out, gotter see
where they What makes you think you can say that
eighteen hundred miles to Hawaii?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
How would to keep her course? I can use a sexton, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We've only won, and I've got to keep that here
in the hopes that we'll be able to build a
ship and sailor off.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm a fair hand with tools, Sir, I've put my
hands on a steam gage quadrant from the boiler room.
With that, a little fixin and a bit of the
ward room mirror, I can fix up a sexton.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Trude. It'll be but good enough. You've got a lot
of answers, Coxon.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I, sir, if you'll pardon me, sir, I've got a
question too.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Let's have it. What's there to be lost if we
try it? Your life and the lives of those that
go with you risk in five to save ninety. That's
a fair enough gamble.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I couldn't see myself given the order to put a
man aboard.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
No need for order, sir. I'm volunteering with your permission.
I'd like to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Too, Captain, I'll get the crew each your volunteer.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
You'll be swamped noneer before you're two hundred miles out.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, sir meanin no disrespect.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I don't agree, And even if it turns out that way,
I'd rather meet Davy Jones with wet breeches than have
my bones picked over by sand flies. Will let us go, sir,
mister Talbot, Sir, make ready the gig you'll sail within
the week.
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The Gig of the Saginaw starring Gary Merrill is Coxon Peter.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Halkin November eighteenth, eighteen seventy. I'm reading now from the
little log I kept with a stub of pencil and
a sheeted paper torn from the back of a seamen's bible.
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November eighteenth, eighteen seventy. On this day we left Ocean Island.
There are five of us aboard the gig. Lieutenant Talbot Quartermaster,
Francis Seaman, John Andrews, and James Muir and myself. We
have eighteen hundred miles to Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
We'll stand our watches in rotation, four hour tricks and
all hands up in stormy weather. Now we need a
cook any volunteers, Ah, what's there to cook?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Can?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Mashed potatoes and coffee.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Well, with good hot coffee, we could sail this gig
around the horn itself.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
You're in a rare mood, hai, And why not.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Shipping under sail again? It takes me back to fifty one?
It does?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You remember, Quartermaster, we shipped together. We did both green
as velmouth clothing.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Ah, well, I do remember the flying Cloud, the Queen
of the.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Clippers, eighty nine days around the horn of the Golden Gate.
What a ship to the day, as crystal clear as this,
And we picked the anchor, remember, Quartermaster, that I do.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And I can still hear the Dorset horns of Captain
Josiah p crazy ha ha hondo.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Until you're there, I can put that gasket.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I'll pit your toe with an actor.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Lover.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Hold up there, overhaul your front lines, all right, tell
you chentleman.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Strike a light, make it the first in your locker.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, I wish I was old, stormy suniway swarm along.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'll kill me a ship pup a thousand tons to
me way to me way. The first week was pleasant enough.
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We were crowded, but we managed to stay out of
each other's way and keep our spirits high.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
One week out November twenty fifth, eighteen seventy, and I
took a sighting on the handmade sexton.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
What do you make it out?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Coxham twenty one degrees nineteen minutes north latitude. That that
should put us on a straight compass line to Honolulu.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Quartermaster, All right, sir, course due east, nothing to the north,
nothing to the south.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Due east. As if we stay on our course, we'll
ride right into the arms of Manila. What's your guests
on a landfall? Well, Barnes, squalls and calms. Three weeks,
three weeks. That doesn't sound too long, now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Does it, No, sir, As a man counts time on
this seat, it isn't very long at all. For a
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week we had fair sailing, and we logged a creditable
number of miles per day. But the tenth day out
the wind shifted, the sea rose on its haunches and
it rained as I have never seen rain before.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Andrews, you're laid to it on that bailing.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We can't keep up, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
One of the of the fire bricks now and still rise, Quartermaster.
Can't you keep us seady into the wind.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
We're taking on water the best time ables. She's straining.
We better get a sea anchor ouster in your rig one, Hi.
By lashing together of the oars. It's risky if the
cable parts and we lose the yours.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Now, let's not worry about that now, Cox and rig
it up and get it out my eyes here, I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Give you a hand. We ever have to come in
sole circ without these oars. Flash them tight, tight as
you can, all right, Prat says talk as we can.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Get it all right over with him, Stand aside for him, Mester,
he's turn.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It into the wind, Lieutenant, watch.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The boom down, Lieutenant, the boom not all the board
man overboard, all right, bring the gig about. I'm going
to that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Bring it about. Order throw the line out to it, Hi, sir,
hell out.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You cut the line all.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The way all right, pry limb man get him aboard, easy,
easy to have.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I gotta give a hand to the caution. I'm all right,
it's a nasty gash. The lieutenant has all right, flash
into the deck and then get blown bail.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Fail, Do you hear me, bailer will all be feeding
fishes by the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I count among the miracles of all times the fact
that our gig kept from being swamped time and time
again that devilish night. But somehow it did, and by
daybreak the rain had stopped, the wind died out, and
the sea was suddenly calm.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Morning brought the sun a hot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Blaring stroke of fire on a sea as smooth as
a shiny silver dollar. While the others slept, I checked
the gig for damages. Then I made my way forward
to where Lieutenant Talbot was flashed to the deck. Morning
Alfred Horn, sir, how's the head?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Ah feels the lead and bashed in by the boom
at your work? It doesn't look too bad. Here, I'll
wash it clean. How did we come through Coxon? Well,
the gig weathered it fairly well, but we lost.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
The sea anchor the yours. That's bad, Hi, But I've
been below inventorying the supplies. Now that's even worse.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Sir, what happened? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
The cans were all rusty as it was. The bang
and they took was too much for him. They're all
split open and fouled with sea water.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All the supplies all but a couple of cans of beans,
two gallons of water. We've got at least two more
weeks of sailing.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
At least, But it's always surprising how far the navy
he can sail on a can of beans.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We'll manage. Now. I'll lift you ahead and take a
swig of this water. Halford, sir, I'm turning over the
command to you. I'm not in fit shape and fine
in a day or two. No, you take command, Hi, sir,
you say so, I'll lift your head. No no water
for me, but Lieutenant, that's the.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Last order I give on this craft, and I wanted
a bade.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No water for me would only be wasted.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
For another week. The second week out we all managed
to keep a fairly good trim. Rain squalls gave us
some water, and the quartermaster proved a fair hand with
a fishing line.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Even Lieutenant Talbot seemed to gain a bit of strength.
You handled the gig well, Halford, were not port yet
if we come through this alive. Will you ever go
back to sea again? Will I go back to sea again?
Where else might I go? Where else? Can I see?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Ferryman go put back to the sea. Wife puts prison
bars around the man. But it's only the sea that
sets him free.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
No walls, no bars, no signs. The breed don't trespass
for men who live by the sea. They'd die in
the sea. Of course, I'll come back. The next day.
The wind died into nothing. The sail flapped loosely. There
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was no rain.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
No fish would take the quartermaster's book. For fourteen long,
empty days, we'd drift. One by one, the sea took
its toll. Andrews and Muir turned their faces to the
deck and lay motionless. Lieutenant Talbot barely stirred. I was
at the tiller as the first.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Light dawned on the morning of December seventh, eighteen seventy.
Coxon Cox, Yes, Francis Duck.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Look then land, land, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I've heard the breakers all night. We're almost in poort.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Quartermester, make for the land, no mate, for the land.
We can't there's no way through the reef. We wreck
ourselves if we try to get in without oars.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
We water there. We can make it to Honolu, but
they are two more.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Land here, do you hear me, counsel land here, I'll
skin your life.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Put down that knife, get back, get back.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Here me the tiller, give me the tiller. All right,
I'll kill you, so help me for message.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Stand fast, keep bottle this new tenant that knife for
our shoe.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Hye, you young squirt. Put down the gun back the
last time.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I want you.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Get back.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Land this land, and we're sailing by.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We're saving bye, We're sailing by.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Rich past the reefs with a beggarly wind, and the
sight of land clawed at us all that day. And
then night fell a weird, terrible night. The quartermaster said,
not a word, not the lieutenant, nor I'm your nor Andrews.
I piloted a ship, a dead ship, with a ghastly
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silent crew. About midnight. Out of all that vast emptiness,
suddenly they came sound.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Quartermaster, quartermaster, listener, get up, listen.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Juway, listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Breakers, ray, let us speak how iand we're drifting in.
I can't fight the helm. Get to the mast and
spread the foot of that sail.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Ray, do as I say, if the king proaches, we're
done for.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Get to the mask. We're swinging, We're approaching, We're going over.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Some native fishermen picked me up the following morning. They
took me to their little hut, dried me out, and
nursed a spark of life back into me. By the
next day, I told my story and one of.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The fishermen paddled off to Honolulu.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
The rescue mission was on its way in jig time
to pick up the eighty six survivors of the Saginaw
shipwrecked on Ocean Island. What are the others, Talbot, Francis,
mur and Andrews all gone to a finer berth on
a better ship that sailed some smoother sea.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
His captain Sicard said, we're of a dying race, but
we die hard old salts that we.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Are here.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
To be.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Storm to Way storm.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
The log of the Sagonog recovered from the wreck on
Ocean Island as one last entry mission accomplished. So ends
another story of the valiant who put to see the
story of the men who gave us Midway Islands America's
frontier in the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
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Cavalcade was written by IRV.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Tunic and was based on the script The Gig of
the Saganaw by Lieutenant Donald Morris. Original music was composed
by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Bories. The program was
directed by John Zeller with our star Gary Merrill. Tonight
you heard Pad o'malleyas Francis Ted Reed as Talbot ned
Beglas Sicard. Gary Merrill appeared to the courtesy of twentieth
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Miss is Si Harris, reminding you to be with us next.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Week when the DuPont Cavalcade will present the exciting story
of three Marines in Korea and how they found the
One Way Out.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Our star will be John Latta.
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Tonight's play The Gig of the Saginaw to Night's Star
Gary Merrill, as Cox and Halford.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Eighteen hundred miles west of Hawaii, a pinpoint in the
vastness of the Pacific stands Midway Island. It was this
far frontier, barely known to most Americans before World War Two,
that provided our armed forces with their most effective advanced
base against the enemy. As early as the year eighteen seventy,
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American naval planners had pinpointed Midway as a strategic asset
had dispatched the USS Saginaw to set up a coaling
station on the tiny island.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
This is the story of the men of the Saginaw,
the men who gave us Midway.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It had been a burning hot six months on Midway,
but now the coaling station was up, and we were
once again at sea, and with luck in a fair wind,
we'd have Christmas dinner in San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
On this first night out Formaster Francis set the wheel
as I came up to relieve him.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Cox and Harvard ready to relieve the wheel, Quartermaster, and
welcome you.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Are to it, Pete, Lieutenant top it's her, yes, Quartermaster,
O snow by east, what pedals ahead? Once heard? Helm's relieved?
Good night, sir, good night?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
And where's the justice in that? He peace? Justice in
what me having to say?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yes, sir, and no, sir to a lad that's got
a flush where his beard ought to.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Be Another lieutenants are right, ay, he's wait behind the
ears night night.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Who has the wheel? Cox and Halvitz, Sir, mind your
helm tonight steer nothing to the.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
South, nothing to the south, hy ey, ser. Stormy was
a fine old man.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Too me way storm alone, Oh Stormy, he is dead
and gone to me a way storm evening, Coxing evening, Kevin,
I haven't heard that chandy in many a moon.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Pull a storm along. Well, it's still being sung on
the clippers.
Speaker 5 (03:02):
Dian race cocks and the clipper ships and the man
who sailed them, who don't Talbot mass.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
You is iSER.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You don't agree, do you, Coxon about the clipper ships? No, Sir,
I don't agree.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I think metality shipping out under sail long after every
one of these steam kettles has blown itself the Kingdom.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
Come we'll see. We'll see, Lieutenant. Wind seems too freshened
it has in the last hour, sir. If the wind
picks up on him, all we may set in to
its ocean island. You better watch for it, I iSER, hi,
the mass hat a sharp watch tonight, report land or
break us on the starboard bow as soon as sighted
what it is?
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Sir?
Speaker 5 (03:39):
How's that gang of contract is doing, Lieutenant? Now I've
throwed them up forward, sir. They seem content enough as well.
They might be after six months on Midway Island, and
one might ask why the Navy has spent all that
time and money on a useless spit of sand like
Midway Island. Why, mister Talbot, For good and sufficient reason.
It may look like a barren wastel. But to those
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who can see beyond the tip of their nose, Midway
Island is a link in the chain that'll bind our
trading ship with all the wealth of Asia. Maybe not now,
but in time to come, Midway will be a good
partial land owned. Break out your atlas some evening and
you'll see why, mister Talbot. My I, sir, I'll be
in my cabin if you raise laugh. Pleasant to be
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headed home again, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Conson her voyage home is always pleasant, sir, even if
it is by a steamboat with soot to foul air
and smoke the filthy the sky.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
The USS Saginaw was a.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Wooden paddlewheeled park, a mule of a ship, neither horse
nor donkey, as they say, I half free to the sea.
She carried her canvas smart enough, but the wooden paddle
wheels stuck to her side gave her the look of
a barnyard hen waddling through the brine. She was cranky,
ill tempered, and trouble was built in the jim. A
couple of hours later, I was still at the wheel.
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The wind was much stronger now, and Lieutenant Talbot sent
for the captain.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
What is your Talbot?
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You might be in for a gale, sir, A bit
of trim, Some say, I Icer, that's your court north
by east. You better stand into the wind, I icer,
Like are.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
The deck right, fiser right?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Fer rakers, all engines pull back, all engines full back,
We're away pretty painful the rape put the helm, pull over,
pull over? She answer great, right on a hard over
the helm.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Hard all hands time deck, All hands, tom deck, hover
your part it for lester, All hands home deck.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
We piled on the reef, and within minutes the ship's
company was massed.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
On day, All present, make air reports, all stoven forward,
keel smashed or cargo forward flooded. The ship's working on
a reef pretty badly, sir. Engineering all engineering space flooded, sir.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Second division, rudder's gone lower, gudget carried away very well.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Return to your division, quoting all hands to move stores topside.
Get everything you can. We're abandoning ship.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
It was a night not soon forgotten. The wind howled
down from the north.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
And every blast helped the reef chew deeper into the
timber of the ship's bottom. By some miracle, we salvaged
a goodly amount of stores, piled them into the boats,
headed over the wreath towards ocean island.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Next morning, Captain the Card called us together the talbot.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Have you inventoried the stores? Just finish, sir. If we
go easy, we should have enough food for three months,
maybe four. And uh, the water not a drop on
the island. But we've set the evaporator up and we
can feed it with wood from the wreck. It's to
be used for drinking only. That's an order. Captain Sir,
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what is it? How long do you hear it'll be
before they miss us in Honolulu and send out a
search party. I'm going to be honest with you, all
of you. We weren't doing California until January. They won't
miss us until February, and we can't expect a ship
here until March. That's six months.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Six months.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Our stores won't last half that long, No.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
They won't.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
We're not going to wait for rescue. Luckily, the sagonaws
passed on the reef. We're going to pull her apart
and build another ship small. She'll be cramped and crowded,
but wheeled sailor to Honolulu, and you can take my
word for that.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Now that's the plan.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
I'll tolerate no skylocking. Every man is to do his
share or so help me. When we launch our ship,
we'll leave him here to rot.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
We set up the jib boom on the highest sand
dune and nailed the flag of distressed to it on
the ship's timber.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
We build a lookout manned it around the clock.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
It was the third day on Ocean Island that Lieutenant talbot,
Quartermaster Francis and myself took the mid morning watch on
the tower.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
You stand your watch and peer into nothing, knowing that
nothing will come this way. Ah, not so much as
a laundsome way. You never can tell a trader might pass.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
It's a fine game of make believe. We're playing, Lieutenant,
make believe, hy, sir, make believe you saying a trader
might pass, and the camp and getting the men to
scramble around playing and building a boat.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
You don't think it can be done.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I know it can't be done. Not in six months,
not in double that time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
With the tools we have, we'll all be chewing sand
before the rids are warped.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I'm not fire.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
It's a chance to get off, the only chance.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Oh well, there's another, and it's right down there on
the beach. A bit bashed into the gunwales. But she
can be repaired. Gig gissey worthy and with a good
hand at the tiller, she could make.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Hawaii eighteen hundred miles. In an open boat, it would
be suicide.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So ninety men on a sand boom with little food
and no water, what would you call that?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That's a mad idea. We could deck the gig over,
and I have a sail plan in mind.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Have you talked of this to anyone else? No, sir,
then don't and that goes for you. Francis hy isir.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
It was Sunday church service that Captain Sicard sent for me.
When I got to his tenth Lieutenant Talbot was with
him the gurrant.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Talbot tells me that you have some doubts about our
being able to build a ship that'll take us off
the island. Aye, sir, I have my doubts, don't you.
The men have got to be kept busy. They've got
to work and think they have a chance. Otherwise, well,
with hope gone and just waiting for death, that'd be savage.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
As of no time has the Lieutenant mentioned the gig, sir, Yes,
I told the captain everything.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Cox suppose we did fit the gig out, gotter see
where they What makes you think you can say that
eighteen hundred miles to Hawaii?
Speaker 3 (10:34):
How would to keep her course? I can use a sexton, sir.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
We've only won, and I've got to keep that here
in the hopes that we'll be able to build a
ship and sailor off.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
I'm a fair hand with tools, Sir, I've put my
hands on a steam gage quadrant from the boiler room.
With that, a little fixin and a bit of the
ward room mirror, I can fix up a sexton.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Trude. It'll be but good enough. You've got a lot
of answers, Coxon.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
I, sir, if you'll pardon me, sir, I've got a
question too.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Let's have it. What's there to be lost if we
try it? Your life and the lives of those that
go with you risk in five to save ninety. That's
a fair enough gamble.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
I couldn't see myself given the order to put a
man aboard.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
No need for order, sir. I'm volunteering with your permission.
I'd like to volunteer.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Too, Captain, I'll get the crew each your volunteer.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
You'll be swamped noneer before you're two hundred miles out.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Well, sir meanin no disrespect.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
I don't agree, And even if it turns out that way,
I'd rather meet Davy Jones with wet breeches than have
my bones picked over by sand flies. Will let us go, sir,
mister Talbot, Sir, make ready the gig you'll sail within
the week.
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The Gig of the Saginaw starring Gary Merrill is Coxon Peter.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Halkin November eighteenth, eighteen seventy. I'm reading now from the
little log I kept with a stub of pencil and
a sheeted paper torn from the back of a seamen's bible.
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November eighteenth, eighteen seventy. On this day we left Ocean Island.
There are five of us aboard the gig. Lieutenant Talbot Quartermaster,
Francis Seaman, John Andrews, and James Muir and myself. We
have eighteen hundred miles to Hawaii.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
We'll stand our watches in rotation, four hour tricks and
all hands up in stormy weather. Now we need a
cook any volunteers, Ah, what's there to cook?
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Can?
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Mashed potatoes and coffee.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Well, with good hot coffee, we could sail this gig
around the horn itself.
Speaker 5 (14:05):
You're in a rare mood, hai, And why not.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Shipping under sail again? It takes me back to fifty one?
It does?
Speaker 4 (14:11):
You remember, Quartermaster, we shipped together. We did both green
as velmouth clothing.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Ah, well, I do remember the flying Cloud, the Queen
of the.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Clippers, eighty nine days around the horn of the Golden Gate.
What a ship to the day, as crystal clear as this,
And we picked the anchor, remember, Quartermaster, that I do.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
And I can still hear the Dorset horns of Captain
Josiah p crazy ha ha hondo.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
Until you're there, I can put that gasket.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I'll pit your toe with an actor.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Lover.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Hold up there, overhaul your front lines, all right, tell
you chentleman.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Strike a light, make it the first in your locker.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, I wish I was old, stormy suniway swarm along.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
I'll kill me a ship pup a thousand tons to
me way to me way. The first week was pleasant enough.
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We were crowded, but we managed to stay out of
each other's way and keep our spirits high.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
One week out November twenty fifth, eighteen seventy, and I
took a sighting on the handmade sexton.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
What do you make it out?
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Coxham twenty one degrees nineteen minutes north latitude. That that
should put us on a straight compass line to Honolulu.
Speaker 5 (15:33):
Quartermaster, All right, sir, course due east, nothing to the north,
nothing to the south.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Due east. As if we stay on our course, we'll
ride right into the arms of Manila. What's your guests
on a landfall? Well, Barnes, squalls and calms. Three weeks,
three weeks. That doesn't sound too long, now.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Does it, No, sir, As a man counts time on
this seat, it isn't very long at all. For a
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week we had fair sailing, and we logged a creditable
number of miles per day. But the tenth day out
the wind shifted, the sea rose on its haunches and
it rained as I have never seen rain before.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Andrews, you're laid to it on that bailing.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
We can't keep up, sir.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
One of the of the fire bricks now and still rise, Quartermaster.
Can't you keep us seady into the wind.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
We're taking on water the best time ables. She's straining.
We better get a sea anchor ouster in your rig one, Hi.
By lashing together of the oars. It's risky if the
cable parts and we lose the yours.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Now, let's not worry about that now, Cox and rig
it up and get it out my eyes here, I'll.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Give you a hand. We ever have to come in
sole circ without these oars. Flash them tight, tight as
you can, all right, Prat says talk as we can.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Get it all right over with him, Stand aside for him, Mester,
he's turn.
Speaker 5 (17:18):
It into the wind, Lieutenant, watch.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
The boom down, Lieutenant, the boom not all the board
man overboard, all right, bring the gig about. I'm going
to that.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Bring it about. Order throw the line out to it, Hi, sir,
hell out.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
All right?
Speaker 5 (17:38):
You cut the line all.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
The way all right, pry limb man get him aboard, easy,
easy to have.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
I gotta give a hand to the caution. I'm all right,
it's a nasty gash. The lieutenant has all right, flash
into the deck and then get blown bail.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Fail, Do you hear me, bailer will all be feeding
fishes by the morning.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
I count among the miracles of all times the fact
that our gig kept from being swamped time and time
again that devilish night. But somehow it did, and by
daybreak the rain had stopped, the wind died out, and
the sea was suddenly calm.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Morning brought the sun a hot.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Blaring stroke of fire on a sea as smooth as
a shiny silver dollar. While the others slept, I checked
the gig for damages. Then I made my way forward
to where Lieutenant Talbot was flashed to the deck. Morning
Alfred Horn, sir, how's the head?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Ah feels the lead and bashed in by the boom
at your work? It doesn't look too bad. Here, I'll
wash it clean. How did we come through Coxon? Well,
the gig weathered it fairly well, but we lost.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
The sea anchor the yours. That's bad, Hi, But I've
been below inventorying the supplies. Now that's even worse.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Sir, what happened? Now?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
The cans were all rusty as it was. The bang
and they took was too much for him. They're all
split open and fouled with sea water.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All the supplies all but a couple of cans of beans,
two gallons of water. We've got at least two more
weeks of sailing.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
At least, But it's always surprising how far the navy
he can sail on a can of beans.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
We'll manage. Now. I'll lift you ahead and take a
swig of this water. Halford, sir, I'm turning over the
command to you. I'm not in fit shape and fine
in a day or two. No, you take command, Hi, sir,
you say so, I'll lift your head. No no water
for me, but Lieutenant, that's the.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Last order I give on this craft, and I wanted
a bade.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
No water for me would only be wasted.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
For another week. The second week out we all managed
to keep a fairly good trim. Rain squalls gave us
some water, and the quartermaster proved a fair hand with
a fishing line.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Even Lieutenant Talbot seemed to gain a bit of strength.
You handled the gig well, Halford, were not port yet
if we come through this alive. Will you ever go
back to sea again? Will I go back to sea again?
Where else might I go? Where else? Can I see?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Ferryman go put back to the sea. Wife puts prison
bars around the man. But it's only the sea that
sets him free.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
No walls, no bars, no signs. The breed don't trespass
for men who live by the sea. They'd die in
the sea. Of course, I'll come back. The next day.
The wind died into nothing. The sail flapped loosely. There
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was no rain.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
No fish would take the quartermaster's book. For fourteen long,
empty days, we'd drift. One by one, the sea took
its toll. Andrews and Muir turned their faces to the
deck and lay motionless. Lieutenant Talbot barely stirred. I was
at the tiller as the first.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Light dawned on the morning of December seventh, eighteen seventy.
Coxon Cox, Yes, Francis Duck.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Look then land, land, Yes.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I've heard the breakers all night. We're almost in poort.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
Quartermester, make for the land, no mate, for the land.
We can't there's no way through the reef. We wreck
ourselves if we try to get in without oars.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
We water there. We can make it to Honolu, but
they are two more.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Land here, do you hear me, counsel land here, I'll
skin your life.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Put down that knife, get back, get back.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Here me the tiller, give me the tiller. All right,
I'll kill you, so help me for message.
Speaker 5 (22:26):
Stand fast, keep bottle this new tenant that knife for
our shoe.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
Hye, you young squirt. Put down the gun back the
last time.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
I want you.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
Get back.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Land this land, and we're sailing by.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
We're saving bye, We're sailing by.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Rich past the reefs with a beggarly wind, and the
sight of land clawed at us all that day. And
then night fell a weird, terrible night. The quartermaster said,
not a word, not the lieutenant, nor I'm your nor Andrews.
I piloted a ship, a dead ship, with a ghastly
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silent crew. About midnight. Out of all that vast emptiness,
suddenly they came sound.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
Quartermaster, quartermaster, listener, get up, listen.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
Juway, listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Breakers, ray, let us speak how iand we're drifting in.
I can't fight the helm. Get to the mast and
spread the foot of that sail.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Ray, do as I say, if the king proaches, we're
done for.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Get to the mask. We're swinging, We're approaching, We're going over.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
Some native fishermen picked me up the following morning. They
took me to their little hut, dried me out, and
nursed a spark of life back into me. By the
next day, I told my story and one of.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The fishermen paddled off to Honolulu.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
The rescue mission was on its way in jig time
to pick up the eighty six survivors of the Saginaw
shipwrecked on Ocean Island. What are the others, Talbot, Francis,
mur and Andrews all gone to a finer berth on
a better ship that sailed some smoother sea.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
His captain Sicard said, we're of a dying race, but
we die hard old salts that we.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
Are here.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
To be.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
Storm to Way storm.
Speaker 2 (25:57):
The log of the Sagonog recovered from the wreck on
Ocean Island as one last entry mission accomplished. So ends
another story of the valiant who put to see the
story of the men who gave us Midway Islands America's
frontier in the Pacific.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
Oh.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Thanks to Gary Merrill and the cavalcade players for the
Night's Story, the gig of the second Al and now
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Cavalcade was written by IRV.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Tunic and was based on the script The Gig of
the Saganaw by Lieutenant Donald Morris. Original music was composed
by Arden Cornwell conducted by Donald Bories. The program was
directed by John Zeller with our star Gary Merrill. Tonight
you heard Pad o'malleyas Francis Ted Reed as Talbot ned
Beglas Sicard. Gary Merrill appeared to the courtesy of twentieth
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Miss is Si Harris, reminding you to be with us next.
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