The Ship That Found Herself
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A commentator writes "From the standpoint of world history, two of Britain's most important activities in the nineteenth century were those of industrialism and imperialism, both of which had been neglected by literature prior to Kipling's advent. Return to Book Page. The sea dropped away from under me, and I had nothing to catch on to. As the Dimbula shifted her helm to give the great boats clear way, the Steam who knows far too much to mind making an exhibition of himself now and then shouted: This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Kipling's prose can make the man-wrought metal and wood speak to us: At sea crossing the North Atlantic, both the elements of the sea and the new steamship's components are quite vocal, each according to its nature: Troynovant , or Renewing Troy:. Share this item —.
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At present I am screwed fast. Should I open, you would immediately be swamped. Patent things always use the longest words they can. It is a trick that they pick up from their inventors. I forget the precise number, in thousands, of gallons which I am guaranteed to throw per hour; but I assure you, my complaining friends, that there is not the least danger. I alone am capable of clearing any water that may find its way here. By my Biggest Deliveries, we pitched then! The sea was getting up in workmanlike style. It was a dead westerly gale, blown from under a ragged opening of green sky, narrowed on all sides by fat, grey clouds; and the wind bit like pincers as it fretted the spray into lacework on the flanks of the waves.
There has been a depression in the Gulf of Mexico. The wave that spoke so politely had travelled some distance aft, and found itself all mixed up on the deck amidships, which was a well-deck sunk between high bulwarks. One of the bulwark-plates, which was hung on hinges to open outward, had swung out, and passed the bulk of the water back to the sea again with a clean smack.
The top of a wave was trying to get in from the outside, but as the plate did not open in that direction, the defeated water spurted back.
A huge swell pushed up exactly under her middle, and her bow and stern hung free with nothing to support them. Then one joking wave caught her up at the bow, and another at the stern, while the rest of the water slunk away from under her just to see how she would like it; so she was held up at her two ends only, and the weight of the cargo and the machinery fell on the groaning iron keels and bilge-stringers. Ease off; you flat-headed little nuisances.
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Then two converging seas hit the bows, one on each side, and fell away in torrents of streaming thunder. Ease off; you dirty little forge-filings. All the hundreds of plates that are riveted to the frames, and make the outside skin of every steamer, echoed the call, for each plate wanted to shift and creep a little, and each plate, according to its position, complained against the rivets.
My friends, let us all pull together. I need fourteen wire-ropes, all pulling in different directions, to hold me steady. Be content to run gracefully fore and aft, and curve in at the ends as we do. Stand up straight; be a perfectly round column, and carry tons of good solid weight — like that!
The Ship that Found Herself
Expansion is the law of life, children. So he had, and all the bottom of the ship felt the easier for it. Now, hold on, as before.
No rivet forged can stand this strain. Why, I knew a little chap like you — he was an eighth of an inch fatter, though — on a steamer — to be sure, she was only twelve hundred tons, now I come to think of it in exactly the same place as you are. He pulled out in a bit of a bobble of a sea, not half as bad as this, and he started all his friends on the same butt-strap, and the plates opened like a furnace door, and I had to climb into the nearest fog-bank, while the boat went down.
I blush for the family, sir.
IT WAS her first voyage, and though she was but a cargo-steamer of twenty-five hundred tons, she was the very best of her kind, the outcome of forty years of. "The Ship that Found Herself" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling, first published in The Idler in It was collected with other Kipling stories in The Day's Work.
The Steam did not say that be had whispered the very same thing to every single piece of iron aboard. There is no sense in telling too much. And all that while the little Dimbula pitched and chopped, and swung and slewed, and lay down as though she were going to die, and got up as though she had been stung, and threw her nose round and round in circles half a dozen times as she dipped, for the gale was at its worst.
It was inky black, in spite of the tearing white froth on the waves, and, to top everything, the rain began to fall in sheets, so that you could not see your hand before your face.
The Ship That Found Herself
This did not make much difference to the ironwork below, but it troubled the foremast a good deal. They had been doing nothing else all night, but this steady thrash of rain above them seemed to be the end of the world. First the wind and then the rain: Soon you may make sail again!
I have a notion that the sea is going down already. There was just as much groaning and straining as ever, but it was not so loud or squeaky in tone; and when the ship quivered she did not jar stiffly, like a poker hit on the floor, but gave with a supple little waggle, like a perfectly balanced golf-club. Product details File Size: New Word City, Inc. July 1, Publication Date: July 1, Sold by: Related Video Shorts 0 Upload your video.
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