I included a picture of the Jamieson nee Lady Chebukto so they'd know what they were getting into. I actually got responses!Ellen had been a captain o... a naval dry cargo and ammunition ship--over ten times the size of the Jamieson. We shook hands on a share of the ship. She immediately registered for the captaincy course with the coast guard to get her civilian papers. She said that the course was a 'gimme' and she'd see me in a couple of months. She was 51.Carl had been a ship's cook on a big. I hoped that this would cause me to attract less attention.Our plan was to look through the six saloons in town until we found our quarry. We would not make any detailed plans until we had them located. That's when we would try to make our capture. We had no reason to suspect that the two wanted men were together, so we were working under that assumption.We found one of the men in the third saloon we visited. This was Hard Head O'Malley. There was a rumor that he was called that because bullets. She appeared to be on fire!At that moment, a terrific explosion lifted the entire boat, at least the middle two thirds, out of the water as it blew the steamboat to shreds and splinters. Boiler explosion! Or some explosive cargo went up. Captain Judson wasted no more time but sprinted for the ladder leading to the Texas deck and the wheel house.He wasn't even breathing hard as he entered the wheel house."I'll take her, Julie, you get the women passengers organized to care for survivors. The. ’ He grinned and agreed. Dropping his pack next to Alma’s, he reached inside for a couple of tins. Baked beans and hotdog sausages were poured into his billycan and placed over a small fire that he built expertly and quickly. As Alma smelled the aroma of the simple meal cooking, her mouth watered and she looked all around. Trees of every type stretched off in all directions, but even though the forest was quite dense, the atmosphere was still light and airy. A gentle breeze picked up and she.