Captain Ravender takes command of the Golden Mary, sailing from Liverpool for the California gold fields with passengers including a young mother and her small daughter, called the Golden Lucy, and a greedy old man named Rarx. Off Cape Horn the ship strikes an iceberg, and the survivors face hunger, cold and despair in two open boats.
Dickens’s contribution to the 1856 Christmas number of Household Words, a taut tale of courage at sea. Download the free EPUB.