Action for Men, May 1960 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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Old Cap- tain Worthwright, seated at his Admiralty desk in London, studied the dispatches be- fore him another full minute ; then looked up: “Lieuenant, I have here 20 reports of prob- _able piracy on the high seas. Few are veri- fied ; the vessels simply disappear with their crews. But they disappear in calm weather, safe waters, and without apparent reason. We suspect one vessel—the cutter Jolly Companions. This ship seems to operate out of Plymouth. You will take the Fury to that area, and make every endeavor to capture or sink this cutter. Have you any questions ?” “Is the name of the pirate known, sir?” “Yes—and no!” replied the troubled cap- tain. “As fantastic as“it sounds, it seems to . be a husband-and-wife combination, and we've heard the name of Cobham, although that means little or nothing. You may be sure they’re a bloodthirsty pair, and you’d best be on your guard!” “T see, sir. I shall do my best.” The Fury almost—but not quite—caught up with the Jolly Companions. Sighting the pirate on a late afternoon of moderate winds, the Fury sought to overtake. Cobham, how- ever, remembering his days as a smuggler, mustered his crew with water buckets to douse down his lower sails, thus increasing their wind-holding capacity. In a prolonged race the Jolly Companions slowly pulled away from the Fury, and gaining the cover of night, eluded her pursuer. But the brush had been too close for Eric Cobham’s nerves, and with the morning he shaped his course to cross the broad Atlantic. RRIVING off the coast of Block Island, Eric Cobham took counsel with his pretty wife. The Jolly Companions was loaded with loot, and what better place to hide it than the bleak shores off which they cruised? The treasure, 16,000 gold guineas, was buried accordingly—the fact is revealed in Eric Cobham’s privately printed autobiog- raphy—and the treasure has never been found. Also, sometime during their American stay, the Cobhams abandoned the Jolly Com- panions for a larger vessel. Perhaps she was one of the fast American clipper ships then making their appearance; history is silent on this point. With their new vessel Eric and Maria lay in wait for, captured, looted, and sank three ships passing near Cape Breton Island and Prince Edward’s Island, on the London- Quebec run. One was the Liverpool ship Lion, and Maria used her master and his mates as targets to sharpen her marksman- ship. Ordering that the men be chained to the windlass, she laid out her eight favorite pistols on the cabin trunk and blazed away until all were dead. Maria never missed. “We're wealthy.” Maria Cobham faced her husband in their cabin several months after the beginning of their cruise in North . American waters. “Why don’t we return to” Europe and retire? You could buy a hand- some estate, and we could live the rest of our days as respected landowners. I must confess I’m a bit tired of living in a ship’s cabin.” Eric Cobham was ready for retirement, too; so the pair of pirates sailed east, where Cobham tried to buy a large estate near Poole, England. He was not successful in his negotiation, but -while he was ashore about this business, his restless wife decided to take their vessel to sea for one more foray. Commanding in her husband’s stead, she captured the East Indiaman Lahore Prince, and introduced a wholly new tech- ‘Industrials are down 3.44, rails 2.42, and - utilities .16. Frankly, Pop, I'm worried." nique for dispatching the crew. Having them mustered in the waist, she served all hands with a stew she’d previously liberally laced with laudanum. When the last man dropped in his tracks, she hove both vessels to, pitched the bodies overside, looted and sank her prize, and returned to port. From the Duc de Chartres Eric Cobham finally managed to purchase an exquisite ocean front estate near Le Havre, France; he and Maria sold their piratical craft, and moved ashore into lives of respectability. But Maria Cobham could never stand the hum- drum life of a chatelaine. She became pro- foundly depressed, and when Eric accepted a post as local judge she seemed to consider it a direct challenge to their former life. Maria took to wandering alone along the gale-swept headlands, and eventually there came the day when her cloak was found on the shore, together with a half-empty vial of laudanum. Her body washed ashore in due course. Respéctability had proved too much for Maria Cobham; in a mood of despondency she had ended her life. Eric Cobham, however, lived out a long and re- spected career as a judge in the local county courts. Finally, sensing the approach of death, he committed to manuscript the prin- cipal details of his pirate days, instructed his priest to publish the facts after Cobham’s death, and then he died—the epitome of wealth and respectability. = (C © ) DOOKS (COMMUC 5}