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Hard-pressed crew aboard raft recounts perilous voyage
In rough first person, Gill and Bill Martin recall leaving a brig Nancy after a gale near Boston. With barrels for a raft and a cutdown sail, they pump, lash, and abandon the Nancy as she sinks. Engagements with Lilah Hawkins and years at sea frame their desperate Thanksgiving escape and uneasy ventures ashore.
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Jack
Bill Martin
Kimeklin
Boston
Davy Jones
Gill
Lilah Hawkins
New Bedford
Nancy
Portland
Liverpool
Kevin
Bill Marlin
Bill
Shipmet
Nea
Hawkins
Wealin
Heavin
Lige
Bedford
India
Benton
New England
New York