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    The Blockade Runners
    The Blockade Runners
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    The Blockade Runners

    By Jules Verne

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    Classic adventure novel by Jules Verne. According to Wikipedia: "Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (written in 1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. Consequently he is often referred to as the "Father of science fiction", along with H. G. Wells. Verne is the second most translated author of all time, only behind Agatha Christie with 4162 translations..."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455350452
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    Jules Verne

    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 - Jules Verne

      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

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

      visit us at samizdat.com

      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

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