Monster Sailing Ship
“Stay your course and hear my yarn” as Maria Rickmers would say. Find enclosed the tale of the disappearance of the monster sailing ship in 1892. Told in a ‘bastardized’ version of old sailor jargon that will leave you sails in luff. Better than bilge water and no worse than a scotch prize. Maria Rickmers tries to recap some of explanations of her disappearance on her maiden voyage, including the Nation in tow, the Azores Sighting, the Marzipan tin message, the Aikman yarn and the Philippine wreckage saga.

Nature of the Story
The true-life events of the sailing ship Maria Rickmers (1891-1892) are the basis of the illustrated short story. Rather than telling this story in the third person I decided the story would be more fun narrated in the first person from the perspective of the ship’s spirit (Maria Rickmers). In addition, I have Maria Rickmers retell her story not in plain English but using a ‘bastardized’ version of old sailor jargon to color her yarn. By bastardized I mean that she is using the meanings of nautical words in a fashion more suitable for the ship’s perspective, but not necessarily true to the interpretation of the words.

Opening Text
"To brooch a business with you I would like to get underway by telling you that my launch in December 1891 was an event indeed. All the land-lubbers came to see me get off my skegg-shores. Even the local school children were given the day off to witness my debut. The newspapers read “Monster Sailing Ship Launched.” That was me, the loftiest of them all. Perhaps undermanned, but definitely not undermasted. Stay your course and hear my yarn."

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