Overhauled by a British War-Ship

Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815

by Thomas Wallace KNOX (1835 - 1896)

John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of manhood at the end of America’s Revolutionary war, the ocean’s siren song beckoned to both. At the peak of adolescence, they struck out on foot in pursuit of their shared dream. Two days to Boston and only one day there found them aboard ship for a whirlwind of adventure beyond their wildest dreams. The next fifteen years shaped a future for the fledgling mariners that seems spun as a flaxen yarn --- were it not so historically accurate. - Summary by Tom Hirsch

Listen next episodes of Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815:
A Congreve Rocket among Algerine Pirates , A Conspiracy, and How It was defeated , A Voyage to China , David and I Visit Our Old Home , Destruction of the Guerrière by the Constitution , Epilogue , Escaping from a British Fleet , Escorted Beyond Danger , Fitting for Sea , How the Evelyn was lost , In Danger from a Waterspout , Prison Life at Dartmoor , Released on Parole , Safe Return to New York , The Chesapeake and the Shannon , The Flying Dutchman and His History , The Ghosts and How They were laid , Trouble between the United States and Algiers