The One-Armed Buccaneer

1887 · 32 pages

The Havenless Cruiser This serial story by Col. Prentiss Ingraham opens with fifteen-year-old Lionel Lonsdale and his Black servant Brandy surviving a devastating hurricane in a five-ton sloop off the coast, their vessel wrecked and provisions lost. Rescued by HMS *Venture*, a British sloop-of-war, they are carried toward India against Lionel's wishes. Working as cabin-boy, Lionel distinguishes himself through courage—climbing aloft in perilous conditions and ultimately saving Commodore from drowning sharks—earning rapid promotion through the ranks to midshipman and eventually captain of a frigate by age twenty-six. The narrative then shifts to ten years later, with Lionel now commanding a vessel under mysterious circumstances involving a crew reassignment and "a strange story hangs thereto, a story of love, envy and hatred," suggesting romantic and antagonistic complications ahead.

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