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Beadle's Dime Library No. 889: Sea Wraith Driftford

1895 · Free to read

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About this issue

This 1895 pulp serial, The Sea Wraith: The Privateer Prince by Burke Brentford, begins as a naval romance set in 1812 Long Island. Jessie Heartwell, a young woman, is courted against her will by Captain Courtold, who commands a mysterious black schooner anchored offshore. Her lover, Frank Freeway, arrives to defend her from Courtold's abduction attempt, but British sailors—revealed to be a press-gang operation—overpower him, kidnapping Freeway, Jessie's Uncle Blowlock, and another man. The ship, previously disguised as the smuggler Nancy Jane, is revealed as H.M.S. Reardan, a British warship armed with cannon. As she departs firing a mocking broadside, news arrives that Congress has declared war on Britain, sparking enthusiasm for privateering and the possibility of capturing the British vessel.

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