The reading room
Frogman #3
"The Rusty Bucket Mystery" follows two men who discover a battered and rusty freighter named the Darrow lying low in Caribbean waters with no crew and no record of her cargo, sparking their curiosity about what happened to the vessel. After contacting authorities in Washington about a "phantom ship" of potential national interest, they investigate the abandoned vessel and find a peculiar watch that has survived despite the ship's deterioration. The story escalates when the men board a second ship and encounter a captain named Calico Jack, leading to sword fights and chaos as someone falls overboard into the fog, with the discovery of grains of wet rice clinging to the wreckage, raising questions about the ship's mysterious origins.