The Blockade Runners
By Victor Hugo
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Victor Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement and is considered one of the greatest French writers. Hugo’s best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchbak of Notre-Dame, 1831, both of which have had several adaptations for stage and screen.
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The Blockade Runners - Victor Hugo
THE BLOCKADE RUNNERS BY JULES VERNE
published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA
established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books
Books by Jules Verne in English translation:
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or Journeys and Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, an Underwater Tour of the World
Adventures of a Special Correspondent, among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia, Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of the Twentieth Century
All Around the Moon
Around the World in Eighty Days
Blockade Runners
Celebrated Travels and Travellers: The Exploration of the World
Celebrated Travels and Travellers: The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Celebrated Travels and Travellers: The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Dick Sand or a Captain at Fifteen
The English at the North Pole, Part 1 of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Field of Ice, Part 2 of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Facing the Flag
From the Earth to the Moon
The Fur Country or Seventy Degrees North Latitude
Godfrey Morgan
In Search of the Castaways (sometimes called The Children of of Captain Grant
and A Voyage Around the World
)
A Journey into the Interior of the Earth
Master of the World
Michael Strogoff or the Courier of the Czar
The Mysterious Island
Off on a Comet or Hector Servadac
Robur the Conqueror
Round the Moon (sequel to From the Earth to the Moon)
The Secret of the Island (sequel to Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea)
The Survivors of the Chancellor
Ticket No. 9672
Topsy-Turvy
The Underground City or The Black Indies (sometimes called The Chlid of the Cavern
)
A Voyage in a Balloon (short story)
The Waif of the Cynthia
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I THE DOLPHIN
II GETTING UNDER SAIL
III THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM
IV CROCKSTON’S TRICK
V THE SHOT FROM THE IROQUOIS, AND MISS JENNY’S ARGUMENTS
VI SULLIVAN ISLAND CHANNEL
VII A SOUTHERN GENERAL
VIII THE ESCAPE
IX BETWEEN TWO FIRES
X ST. MUNGO
Chapter I. THE DOLPHIN
The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the /Comet/ ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at the speed of six miles an hour. Since that time more than a million of steamers or packet-boats have plied this Scotch river, and the inhabitants of Glasgow must be as familiar as any people with the wonders of steam navigation.
However, on the 3rd of December, 1862, an immense crowd, composed of shipowners, merchants, manufacturers, workmen, sailors, women, and children, thronged the muddy streets of Glasgow, all going in the direction of Kelvin Dock, the large shipbuilding premises belonging to Messrs. Tod & MacGregor. This last name especially proves that the descendants of the famous Highlanders have become manufacturers, and that they have made workmen of all the vassals of the old clan chieftains.
Kelvin Dock is situated a few minutes’ walk from the town, on the right bank of the Clyde. Soon the immense timber-yards were thronged with spectators; not a part of the quay, not a wall of the wharf, not a factory roof showed an unoccupied place; the river itself was covered with craft of all descriptions, and the heights of Govan, on the left bank, swarmed with spectators.
There was, however, nothing extraordinary in the event about to take place; it was nothing but the launching of a ship, and this was an everyday affair with the people of Glasgow. Had the /Dolphin/, then — for that was the name of the ship built by Messrs. Tod & MacGregor — some special peculiarity? To tell the truth, it had none.
It was a large ship, about 1,500 tons, in which everything combined to obtain superior speed. Her engines, of 500 horse-power, were from the workshops of Lancefield Forge; they worked two screws, one on either side the stern-post, completely independent of each other. As for the depth of water the /Dolphin/ would draw, it must be very inconsiderable; connoisseurs were not deceived, and they concluded rightly that this ship was destined for shallow straits. But all these particulars could not in any way justify the eagerness of the people: taken altogether, the /Dolphin/ was nothing more or less than an ordinary ship. Would her launching present some mechanical difficulty to be overcome? Not any more than usual. The Clyde had received many a ship of heavier tonnage, and the launching of the /Dolphin/ would take place in the usual manner.
In fact, when the water was calm, the moment the ebb-tide set in, the workmen began to operate. Their mallets kept perfect time falling on the wedges meant to raise the ship’s keel: soon a shudder ran through the whole of her massive structure; although she had only been slightly raised, one could see that she shook, and then gradually began to glide down the well greased wedges, and in a few moments she plunged into the Clyde. Her stern struck the muddy bed of the river, then she raised herself on the top of a gigantic wave, and, carried forward by her start, would have been dashed against the quay of the Govan timber-yards, if her anchors had not restrained her.
The launch had been perfectly successful, the /Dolphin/ swayed quietly on the waters of the Clyde, all the spectators