The weather had appeared more than menacing all day. The sea was now rising, and Neptune's white horses had already started to gallop over the crests of the rising billows. All the galaxies of heaven were now present above, replacing the two or three unusual sentinels that had previously protruded from the firmament. Our second mate, Garry O'Neil, perished at sea while sailing the Star of the North. He had fled to the sea as a child before attending medical school in Dublin.
After his mother passed away, he abandoned his newly-acquired dignity and went back to the sea since he felt no longer beholden to anything at home. The settings, the ship in the distance with its flag partially up, the light of the setting sun, and the resemblance of my boat then and now brought back memories of that special evening.
British novelist John Conroy Hutcheson (1840–1997), who wrote books and short tales about life at sea, was a maritime expert. Hutcheson was born in the Channel Islands in Jersey in 1840, and he passed away on Hampshire's Portsea Island in late 1896 or early 1897. Some of his most popular books are:
Picked Up at Sea; or, the Gold Miners of Minturne Creek. And other stories, etc. On Board the “Esmeralda”; or, Martin Leigh’s log. A sea story The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; or, Castaway on Kerguelen Land, The Penang Pirate and the Lost Pinnace. Fritz and Eric; or the brother Crusoes, Tom Finch’s monkey and how he dined with the Admiral, and other yarns, etc. The White Squall: a Story of the Sargasso Sea Bob Strong’s Holidays; or, Adrift in the Channel, etc. Afloat at Last. A sailor boy’s log of his life at sea, etc. The Ghost Ship, The Island Treasure, also known as The Black Man’s Ghost, Young Tom Bowling
