Strange waters by Kingsbury Scott
The enchanted kingdom by Nevis Shane is a maritime adventure short story written in the late 1920s. The book likely centers on merchant seamen pressed into wartime duty, showing how ingenuity and grit in an engine room can turn the tables on a submarine threat. A seasoned Great Lakes fireman, Tim Donahue, clings to his beloved freighter when it is cut and reassembled for ocean service and sent across the Atlantic in
the Great War. In the danger zone, a German U-boat stalks the ship, rakes her decks with shellfire, and forces the crew to abandon ship. Tim holds the stokehold together, then, with his watch partner Schultz—a German-born sailor who hates the submarine service—springs an ambush: they lure the boarding party below, club them senseless, steal their uniforms, and use the ruse to seize the submarine itself. With the captured U-boat in tow, they await dawn, when an American destroyer arrives, confirms the safety of the abandoned crew, and orders the battered freighter on to port under convoy—leaving Tim’s fierce loyalty and quick wits the quiet heroes of the voyage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Scott, Kingsbury, 1880-1943 |
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| Title | Strange waters |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1929. |
| Series Title | Produced from the March 9, 1929 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine. |
| Credits | Roger Frank and Sue Clark |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Sea stories |
| Subject | World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction |
| Subject | Merchant mariners -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77346 |
| Release Date | Nov 27, 2025 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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