August 4, 2025 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Coldl has bat the quarters, all right, can't buy this
table battery one broadside.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Din't want to to please Captain Bush point us.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
On pocket, then stop pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I already fre.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Pressessing Michael Redgrave as CS Foresters Indomino, Man of the Sea,
Aratio Hornblower.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
I have been invalided home at the time for Christmas,
feeling a fightful cedious still, of course, for somehow, in
following a French retreat from Riga, I had picked up
one of those illnesses which scourge armies on there that
had quite about a bit. In fact. Then my old
friend Captain Bush had brought me home aboard the Nunsense
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home to small Bridge, where the days passed quietly and serenely.
Oh wonderful days. But I began to want to see
old Bush again, so not long after New Year's Day
we coaxed him down from London for a winter weekend.
With it it was old times again. Well some port,
(02:40):
what you say, Wiggins has left it and soon you know,
one night up in the Gulf of Riga, you seemed
amused by a yarn of mine from my midship Monday's Bush.
I never told you that I bought my first independent
command of what it led to in the way of
well self knowledge too. You know, extremely young men, or
(03:04):
rather rather sad to contemplate, aren't there as one grows older.
They're terrible resolve that everything must turn out right, their
monstrous earnestness. I hadn't been so long about the interfatigable
(03:28):
under Captain Polieu. I'd just come there as a gaupy midshipman,
you know, from the Justinian, and to have reached a
frigate of the line had made quite dazzled. Just then
we were on patrol in the Bay of Whiskey, and
we'd fall around congoy French merchant ship's most opportunity. The
frenchmen of war, which were up in the escortingland supressed,
(03:49):
were otherwise engaged that day for our own fleet to
attack them miles further out in the Atlantic. And as
the unescorted merchantmen fled towards home, filled with the food
revolutionary France needed so desperately, Captain Paleu set out to
capture as many as he could, satch prices one by one.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
That French's two slots to surrender. Lieutenant Mason, you have
all a shot across her bowers from the nine powders.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Isaac not into.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
A howl, Confounded Mason, I didn't mean that man, or
that meant trap her?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Isa That last one was dangerously near her water line.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Godleyer's changed point of bay far into our rigging ready?
While another one, sir, No, wait, isn't a flat coming down?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes, I do believe it is high time it did.
That last shot had good elevation, rowing the slings of
poor topsail yard. If the sailors down, all right?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
As he too close beside her, have a broadside ready, Amazon,
in case you try some trick, give him a speaking
tubb it. Oh hover, what brig.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
A Magi got on a bold twenty four off of
you l in America with.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Rice Rice Lettle silver for a pretty pennyser when you
get home to England two hundred tons?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Actually imagine I'm twelve in our crew at most.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, he'll need a price crew of I'd say four.
It's a midshipman's command. Now let me see, mister Hondo.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Huh, yeah, wait, you don't want to go all the
way overside you. He tried to knock us all breathless.
Huh liver man joking, get a featherweight.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Why it's young horn blower?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
I thought the old man was sending gown an officer.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I suppose I was all that was left, or Helsi
easiest to spare At this point, mister asker full for.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
The French breakman, I think you can manager riders. That
French GROW's likely to be nasty. Oh have hear saw
so that I that I can be your first command?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well? Yes, still, it is a command in a way,
isn't it, even if.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
It's such a short voice. I hope it will be
a short point a horn blower. You never know when
the prior ship and prisoners. Watch that French crew if
you don't retake the ship, and have you had a
French jail me?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Where you know it?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What english port you're heading for? Well, sir, I suppose
whatever ports me. We both gazed up at the French
breakers and cut I drew alongside, struck by our fire.
Her fore topsl yard dangled precariously in the jib halliet
that slacked the way of the sail was flapping wudly
in the wind.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
How many when will you want?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
The captain determined to take four of your they better
be chopping. Then you have to get that chip in first,
or you will be in a bad condition. Shall I
pick four good men from you for my cowl.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're very much obliged if you would say, you will
know them better than I do.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
All right, Matthews, I think Garzan Hunter, Hi Smith, you're
detailed to man is break on the command of mister Honda.
I keep them away from drinking. They'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well here the watch up.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
When you spring up those main chains not the white
water in between the two vessels, you'll notice there are Matthews,
give me the Honda a hand on his other side.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Wait for it, sir, Get ready, now jump, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I hold myself all arms and legs, like a leaping frog.
At the brig's main change. He slipped off, and the
rolling brig load me tie deep into the boiling sea.
But one of the seamen had preceded me. He grabbed
up my wrists and hauled me aboard, and three other
seamen followed us. A little the worse for wear, I
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led the way onto the deck. Well, man, we'll reconnoiter
a bit first, hie eyes have we'll be closer with you,
don't worry.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I till yourself horn bloom.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Beg you, sir, I will. I don't see many signs
of life aboard, I must say, men answer A little
of them A rather that hatch? Can I see?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yes, and on my dirt. I advanced slowly aft. Suddenly
something was raised towards the sky, above the heads of
the crouching men. I halted and looked again. It was
an up tilted wine bottle. They had broken open. The
wine stores were cheating their captors of them, at least
in as prompt and practical way as possible. I couldn't
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really say I blamed them much. It made the best
of their time, So that's a parent one of the group,
his white hair blowing in the wind, rose to meses.
His lips seemed to be shaping some pronouncement of importance,
searching earnestly for the right words to yous ooh.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
The terril slish.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Put that bottle on, dear friendsman, I didn't need to
remember Rossi's warning. If I didn't solve this situation instantly,
my boarding party would be at the wine along with
his French crew. And a frightening picture rose up in
my mind. A disabled ship drifting about the Bay of
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biscuy Men by a tipsy crew. A quick show of authority.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
It was called for what a m don't you mean
you understanding this?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
If not in these suitencies.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I'm armed and here's my pistol.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Put that down.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's paying yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Good for you, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Take these men followed Matthews, you and and two others.
Lock them up somewhere below.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Aye aye sah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
My first command, such as it was, and my first
lesson in the loneliness that command brings to a man
at sea. And suddenly, in amidst these plans, a sickening
thought struck through me. I rashed on deck to behind Hunter, Huns, Hunter,
come here, yes, sir, it's it's occurred to me. Nothing's
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been done to see if the bridge is taking any water.
You know, one of those shops we fired at a
may have hunter below the water line. That's so so
we better sound the world.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Not I'd drop o water on the rod dry as
yesterday's panikin.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
We can't keep the courtier set much longer, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And the wind's coming up very ghastly, like, oh very good.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, I'll I'll be up Hunter. Call all handsome once
aye eyes, Sir. I disguised my owner feelings as best
I could, but it was soon apparent. With the wind northerly,
we'd have to go about all hard water with but
four men to handle topsails and close hauled the brig
on the starboard deck. The task took all that was
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left of the night. By the time we brought her
safely round, all hope of an easy two days when
had vanished. True, we were heading away from the dangerous
shores of France, but we were also heading away from
the frendly shores of England.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
That French captain's been yopping his head off, Sir, insince
he's got to chalkia important.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Release him hunter, bring him up to me.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
My men, they are angry, very angry, so my men.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I also why, oh I have a cook? Good? Well,
perhaps we can arrange truth, then, captain, if your men
are allowed on deck, your cook to provide food for
all of us, will you agree to make no attempt
to take the ship from that which I talk ourselves?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
There is another concern of more importance at this moment. Well,
she rides a little heavily doing your things well, well.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yes, perhaps, but perhaps she eats. Oh no, no, no,
there's no water.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
We've tested the well, tested the well, but Mondieu, you
would find none in the well.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Do you not know how cargo?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Do he?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Monsieur?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
We are carrying a cargo of rice.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Cargo of rice?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Why yes, I recall now, But.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Brother, after all the rice from you allia, no league
would be a in the way. The race would have
so brop of water in the hole. But one shirt
on your closset figure struck.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Us in the did you not know?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, well, hunter Hunter, that that trot hit her? After all? Well,
I don't know yet. It must be some on the
port side for her, though, we have a look. You
and Matthews put a bowlin round me and learn away.
We're heading on this tech and I'll have a good
view of the side the swing of the brig. The
sea closed over my head, but there it was the
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waterline I splintered, jagged hole.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
He's a that's the one why I cause your duties
to the deck. Scene forward, there's opening what.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Hunter Hunter? Look, the pitch is even bounting.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Out of it, and just beyond her, see that I
spot it's something awful wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Pits coming in ridges from the deck sea to the
I have just.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Thought, why Bice right Rice cargo.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Is is that he balls because water's got well into.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It now sair, so it's swelling dry eyes.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
That salt will double, even treble.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's for you.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
This sheep will burst wide open with his cargo.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
War Mont you Mont, you Mont, You remember the unnatural
creaks and grown below. And I cursed myself in experience
black moment. If I hadn't spoken sharply, I do well,
I'd have broken down in tears. So don't we get
that said that whole the better than I do know.
Frends from Panto. Don't simply stand there stirring.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
I said the sheep was, I didn't give any She's
low in the water.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Be silent, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
One crisses after another. I have to think, hell that sound.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You hear the man, sir, So I don't like the
look of it, Say I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
She's settling down and opening up below as well as
on deck. That Rice is pushing her apart in every
single look.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He there's her.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Even that batton down hatchcover.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Is pushing upward.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
See well, I'll jettison the cargo. Then Matthews get some
prisoners together and we'll start und all right, Take half
your men off that sell work, open the hatches and
bring up the cargo past. They all worked with a will,
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even the prisoners, And as they lifted off the hatch covers,
brown forms shot out abruptly, rice bags forced upwards by
the pressure of others below. Bag by bag, the rice
was hauled up from the hold and cast overboard. Sometimes
the bag split, spewing rice in every direction. It was fantastic.
And finally the lower bags, wetter and more swollen, jammed
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the hatch words. Even the tackles won't sway them up. Now,
is that it?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Hunter? Right?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
But we've relieved that quite a bit, I will say, sir,
And the sail was ready good.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Keep the right party working to see if they can
get rid of more cargo.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Our lines roll through the grummits of the Oh yes, sir,
and a good five square feet of sail is followed.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Put your other men too that then, and work the
sail under the hull and drag it after the hole.
I say, begging your pardon, sir, what are you doing? No,
I'm undressing and I want to see it properly in place.
And this time I'll go over without any clothes at Hunter,
get a Berlin ready for me. For all those men
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naked and wet, I lost a lot of skin. The
ship was rolling most of this time, but I managed
to see the fothered sail in place against the whole.
A hairy mass sucked in instantly into position. The hole
seemed fairly plugged, and they hauled me up.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, is that you got a few more bags out.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Of the old while you was gone? Goods? Can you
Hunter hand me that shirt?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
She's riding better now, you notice, don't you say yes?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And the wind's improving.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Will lay hurd on a roof course, Ana nor HEAs fine?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I sa well, bush another glass of port, Thank you, Horatio,
But go on, please well. I I was limp with
lack of sleep, with cold and exhaustion and accumulated burdens.
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And you know it started with the highest of resolves,
and now badly dampened. At least I learned some lessons
in that twenty four hour spen, and for the moment
all seemed well enough with ship and men, and as
we plied heavily along, I even felt a tiny glow
of pride unearned or not. I squared my shoulder and
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I took my stand there on the poop, straddling with
my hands behind my back. I was still in command
of my ship, Bush, such as she was. And despite
the grinning fates and all my what is, she was
heading home to England. And of course I'd actually laid
off myself. Yes, yes, very young and earnest men. They
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are a bit sad, you know, well, Bush finished report. Yes, well,
mustn't keep my lady wife waiting, must wait.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
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Speaker 1 (18:43):
Foresters.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Torch, produced by Harry
Allen Towers,
Coldl has bat the quarters, all right, can't buy this
table battery one broadside.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Din't want to to please Captain Bush point us.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
On pocket, then stop pretty.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I already fre.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
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Speaker 2 (01:57):
I have been invalided home at the time for Christmas,
feeling a fightful cedious still, of course, for somehow, in
following a French retreat from Riga, I had picked up
one of those illnesses which scourge armies on there that
had quite about a bit. In fact. Then my old
friend Captain Bush had brought me home aboard the Nunsense
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home to small Bridge, where the days passed quietly and serenely.
Oh wonderful days. But I began to want to see
old Bush again, so not long after New Year's Day
we coaxed him down from London for a winter weekend.
With it it was old times again. Well some port,
(02:40):
what you say, Wiggins has left it and soon you know,
one night up in the Gulf of Riga, you seemed
amused by a yarn of mine from my midship Monday's Bush.
I never told you that I bought my first independent
command of what it led to in the way of
well self knowledge too. You know, extremely young men, or
(03:04):
rather rather sad to contemplate, aren't there as one grows older.
They're terrible resolve that everything must turn out right, their
monstrous earnestness. I hadn't been so long about the interfatigable
(03:28):
under Captain Polieu. I'd just come there as a gaupy midshipman,
you know, from the Justinian, and to have reached a
frigate of the line had made quite dazzled. Just then
we were on patrol in the Bay of Whiskey, and
we'd fall around congoy French merchant ship's most opportunity. The
frenchmen of war, which were up in the escortingland supressed,
(03:49):
were otherwise engaged that day for our own fleet to
attack them miles further out in the Atlantic. And as
the unescorted merchantmen fled towards home, filled with the food
revolutionary France needed so desperately, Captain Paleu set out to
capture as many as he could, satch prices one by one.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
That French's two slots to surrender. Lieutenant Mason, you have
all a shot across her bowers from the nine powders.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Isaac not into.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
A howl, Confounded Mason, I didn't mean that man, or
that meant trap her?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Isa That last one was dangerously near her water line.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Godleyer's changed point of bay far into our rigging ready?
While another one, sir, No, wait, isn't a flat coming down?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Why?
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Yes, I do believe it is high time it did.
That last shot had good elevation, rowing the slings of
poor topsail yard. If the sailors down, all right?
Speaker 1 (04:56):
All right?
Speaker 4 (04:57):
As he too close beside her, have a broadside ready, Amazon,
in case you try some trick, give him a speaking
tubb it. Oh hover, what brig.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
A Magi got on a bold twenty four off of
you l in America with.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Rice Rice Lettle silver for a pretty pennyser when you
get home to England two hundred tons?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Actually imagine I'm twelve in our crew at most.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Yes, he'll need a price crew of I'd say four.
It's a midshipman's command. Now let me see, mister Hondo.
Speaker 7 (05:50):
Huh, yeah, wait, you don't want to go all the
way overside you. He tried to knock us all breathless.
Huh liver man joking, get a featherweight.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Why it's young horn blower?
Speaker 7 (06:04):
I thought the old man was sending gown an officer.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I suppose I was all that was left, or Helsi
easiest to spare At this point, mister asker full for.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
The French breakman, I think you can manager riders. That
French GROW's likely to be nasty. Oh have hear saw
so that I that I can be your first command?
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well? Yes, still, it is a command in a way,
isn't it, even if.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
It's such a short voice. I hope it will be
a short point a horn blower. You never know when
the prior ship and prisoners. Watch that French crew if
you don't retake the ship, and have you had a
French jail me?
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Where you know it?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
What english port you're heading for? Well, sir, I suppose
whatever ports me. We both gazed up at the French
breakers and cut I drew alongside, struck by our fire.
Her fore topsl yard dangled precariously in the jib halliet
that slacked the way of the sail was flapping wudly
in the wind.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
How many when will you want?
Speaker 7 (07:06):
The captain determined to take four of your they better
be chopping. Then you have to get that chip in first,
or you will be in a bad condition. Shall I
pick four good men from you for my cowl.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
They're very much obliged if you would say, you will
know them better than I do.
Speaker 7 (07:17):
All right, Matthews, I think Garzan Hunter, Hi Smith, you're
detailed to man is break on the command of mister Honda.
I keep them away from drinking. They'll be all right.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Well here the watch up.
Speaker 7 (07:32):
When you spring up those main chains not the white
water in between the two vessels, you'll notice there are Matthews,
give me the Honda a hand on his other side.
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Wait for it, sir, Get ready, now jump, sir.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
I hold myself all arms and legs, like a leaping frog.
At the brig's main change. He slipped off, and the
rolling brig load me tie deep into the boiling sea.
But one of the seamen had preceded me. He grabbed
up my wrists and hauled me aboard, and three other
seamen followed us. A little the worse for wear, I
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led the way onto the deck. Well, man, we'll reconnoiter
a bit first, hie eyes have we'll be closer with you,
don't worry.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
I till yourself horn bloom.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Beg you, sir, I will. I don't see many signs
of life aboard, I must say, men answer A little
of them A rather that hatch? Can I see?
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yes, and on my dirt. I advanced slowly aft. Suddenly
something was raised towards the sky, above the heads of
the crouching men. I halted and looked again. It was
an up tilted wine bottle. They had broken open. The
wine stores were cheating their captors of them, at least
in as prompt and practical way as possible. I couldn't
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really say I blamed them much. It made the best
of their time, So that's a parent one of the group,
his white hair blowing in the wind, rose to meses.
His lips seemed to be shaping some pronouncement of importance,
searching earnestly for the right words to yous ooh.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
The terril slish.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Put that bottle on, dear friendsman, I didn't need to
remember Rossi's warning. If I didn't solve this situation instantly,
my boarding party would be at the wine along with
his French crew. And a frightening picture rose up in
my mind. A disabled ship drifting about the Bay of
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biscuy Men by a tipsy crew. A quick show of authority.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
It was called for what a m don't you mean
you understanding this?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
If not in these suitencies.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
I'm armed and here's my pistol.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Put that down.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
He's paying yourself.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Good for you, sir.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Take these men followed Matthews, you and and two others.
Lock them up somewhere below.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Aye aye sah.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
My first command, such as it was, and my first
lesson in the loneliness that command brings to a man
at sea. And suddenly, in amidst these plans, a sickening
thought struck through me. I rashed on deck to behind Hunter, Huns, Hunter,
come here, yes, sir, it's it's occurred to me. Nothing's
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been done to see if the bridge is taking any water.
You know, one of those shops we fired at a
may have hunter below the water line. That's so so
we better sound the world.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
Not I'd drop o water on the rod dry as
yesterday's panikin.
Speaker 8 (11:12):
We can't keep the courtier set much longer, sir.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
And the wind's coming up very ghastly, like, oh very good.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Well, I'll I'll be up Hunter. Call all handsome once
aye eyes, Sir. I disguised my owner feelings as best
I could, but it was soon apparent. With the wind northerly,
we'd have to go about all hard water with but
four men to handle topsails and close hauled the brig
on the starboard deck. The task took all that was
(11:37):
left of the night. By the time we brought her
safely round, all hope of an easy two days when
had vanished. True, we were heading away from the dangerous
shores of France, but we were also heading away from
the frendly shores of England.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
That French captain's been yopping his head off, Sir, insince
he's got to chalkia important.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Release him hunter, bring him up to me.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
My men, they are angry, very angry, so my men.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I also why, oh I have a cook? Good? Well,
perhaps we can arrange truth, then, captain, if your men
are allowed on deck, your cook to provide food for
all of us, will you agree to make no attempt
to take the ship from that which I talk ourselves?
Speaker 8 (12:29):
There is another concern of more importance at this moment. Well,
she rides a little heavily doing your things well, well.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yes, perhaps, but perhaps she eats. Oh no, no, no,
there's no water.
Speaker 8 (12:43):
We've tested the well, tested the well, but Mondieu, you
would find none in the well.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
Do you not know how cargo?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Do he?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Monsieur?
Speaker 8 (12:50):
We are carrying a cargo of rice.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Cargo of rice?
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Why yes, I recall now, But.
Speaker 8 (12:56):
Brother, after all the rice from you allia, no league
would be a in the way. The race would have
so brop of water in the hole. But one shirt
on your closset figure struck.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
Us in the did you not know?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Yes, well, hunter Hunter, that that trot hit her? After all? Well,
I don't know yet. It must be some on the
port side for her, though, we have a look. You
and Matthews put a bowlin round me and learn away.
We're heading on this tech and I'll have a good
view of the side the swing of the brig. The
sea closed over my head, but there it was the
(13:32):
waterline I splintered, jagged hole.
Speaker 8 (13:40):
He's a that's the one why I cause your duties
to the deck. Scene forward, there's opening what.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Hunter Hunter? Look, the pitch is even bounting.
Speaker 7 (13:52):
Out of it, and just beyond her, see that I
spot it's something awful wrong.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Pits coming in ridges from the deck sea to the
I have just.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Thought, why Bice right Rice cargo.
Speaker 8 (14:04):
Is is that he balls because water's got well into.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It now sair, so it's swelling dry eyes.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
That salt will double, even treble.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
It's for you.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
This sheep will burst wide open with his cargo.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
War Mont you Mont, you Mont, You remember the unnatural
creaks and grown below. And I cursed myself in experience
black moment. If I hadn't spoken sharply, I do well,
I'd have broken down in tears. So don't we get
that said that whole the better than I do know.
Frends from Panto. Don't simply stand there stirring.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
I said the sheep was, I didn't give any She's
low in the water.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Be silent, sir.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
One crisses after another. I have to think, hell that sound.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
You hear the man, sir, So I don't like the
look of it, Say I don't.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
She's settling down and opening up below as well as
on deck. That Rice is pushing her apart in every
single look.
Speaker 6 (14:55):
He there's her.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Even that batton down hatchcover.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Is pushing upward.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
See well, I'll jettison the cargo. Then Matthews get some
prisoners together and we'll start und all right, Take half
your men off that sell work, open the hatches and
bring up the cargo past. They all worked with a will,
(15:20):
even the prisoners, And as they lifted off the hatch covers,
brown forms shot out abruptly, rice bags forced upwards by
the pressure of others below. Bag by bag, the rice
was hauled up from the hold and cast overboard. Sometimes
the bag split, spewing rice in every direction. It was fantastic.
And finally the lower bags, wetter and more swollen, jammed
(15:43):
the hatch words. Even the tackles won't sway them up. Now,
is that it?
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Hunter? Right?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
So, sir.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
But we've relieved that quite a bit, I will say, sir,
And the sail was ready good.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Keep the right party working to see if they can
get rid of more cargo.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Our lines roll through the grummits of the Oh yes, sir,
and a good five square feet of sail is followed.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Put your other men too that then, and work the
sail under the hull and drag it after the hole.
I say, begging your pardon, sir, what are you doing? No,
I'm undressing and I want to see it properly in place.
And this time I'll go over without any clothes at Hunter,
get a Berlin ready for me. For all those men
(16:24):
naked and wet, I lost a lot of skin. The
ship was rolling most of this time, but I managed
to see the fothered sail in place against the whole.
A hairy mass sucked in instantly into position. The hole
seemed fairly plugged, and they hauled me up.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, is that you got a few more bags out.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Of the old while you was gone? Goods? Can you
Hunter hand me that shirt?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
She's riding better now, you notice, don't you say yes?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And the wind's improving.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Will lay hurd on a roof course, Ana nor HEAs fine?
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I sa well, bush another glass of port, Thank you, Horatio,
But go on, please well. I I was limp with
lack of sleep, with cold and exhaustion and accumulated burdens.
(17:23):
And you know it started with the highest of resolves,
and now badly dampened. At least I learned some lessons
in that twenty four hour spen, and for the moment
all seemed well enough with ship and men, and as
we plied heavily along, I even felt a tiny glow
of pride unearned or not. I squared my shoulder and
(17:47):
I took my stand there on the poop, straddling with
my hands behind my back. I was still in command
of my ship, Bush, such as she was. And despite
the grinning fates and all my what is, she was
heading home to England. And of course I'd actually laid
off myself. Yes, yes, very young and earnest men. They
(18:14):
are a bit sad, you know, well, Bush finished report. Yes, well,
mustn't keep my lady wife waiting, must wait.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Ratio Hornblower, starring Michael Redgrave, is based on the novels
of C. S.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Foresters.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Music composed and conducted by Sidney Torch, produced by Harry
Allen Towers,
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