TOP DECK TWENTY! BEST WEST COAST SEA STORIES!

Allyn, Stan

ISBN 10: 0832304697 / ISBN 13: 9780832304699

Published by Binford & Mort, Porland, OR, 1989

About this Item

131 pp., Illus, Yellow Illus Paperback, Fine.

Seller Inventory # 000358

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TOP DECK TWENTY! BEST WEST COAST SEA STORIES!
• Publisher: Binford & Mort, Porland, OR
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0832304697
• ISBN 13: 9780832304699
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • oregon

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Synopsis

Cap'n Stan Allyn, author of HEAVE TO YOU'LL DROWN YOURSELVES! and THE DAY THE SUN DIDN'T RISE, shares his personal experiences and reactions providing insight into the mysteries and shipwrecks along the coast of California, Oregon and Washington. He offers a candid look at life at sea and spins his yarns with spark and humor.

Rich in experiences and adventures, these stories will captivate the reader.

From the Back Cover

"Stretch out on that deck or I'll blast your head off!"

The terse threat was barked by would-be pirates at the second mate and quartermaster on duty in the wheelhouse of the freighter passenger steamship Buckner, steaming down the Oregon coast twenty miles off the Umpqua River mouth, shortly after midnight August 21, 1910.

The pirates, who had boarded the ship at Seattle, hoped to commandeer the ship and make off in the ship's launch with the Alaskan gold that they thought was aboard being transshipped. One of the pirates cat-footed to the captain's cabin and murdered him with blasts from both barrels of his shotgun.

They had two-thirds of the ship's crew lined up under their guns and would have succeeded had not Chief Mate Richard Brennan succeeded in sneaking into the dead captain's cabin, grabbing his revolver, subduing the pirates, and retaking command of the ship.

This hair-raising true sea story is the first of twenty that the author has researched, starting with the wreck of the Sloop of War U.S.S. Peacock at the north entrance of the Columbia River in July 1841, and ending with the crashing ashore and total loss of seven U.S. navy destroyers at Honda Point, a few miles North of Santa Barbara, California, on September 8, 1923.