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Hammond Innes: The Wreck of the Mary Deare
The Wreck of the Mary
Deare
by Hammond Innes
The title says that the story is about the sinking of a
ship, the Mary Deare.
The story is about an attented insurance
fraud.
The story is about the sinking of the Mary Deare,
a ship, which had loaded , zement-blocks instead of exepensive aeroplane
engines. The owner of the ship tried to wreck it, but he wasn´t able to.
Later the insurance found out that the aeroplane-engines had been sold to the
Chinese.
Characters:
Mr. Sands: He is the main character,he is about
thirty years old an unmarried. He own´s a salvage- ship, the Sea
Witch. He risks his life for his job. He didn´t like Patch when he met
him first, but later they got good friends. He wants to find out the truth
about the wreck of the Mary Deare. p.14,
Patch Gideon: He was the first officer on the
Mary Deare and after the captain had died, he became captain. He was
the only one who stayed at the ship until it ran on sand. 5000 pounds were
offerd to him by the owner of the ship, Mr.Dellimare, to wreck the ship, but he
efused and killed Mr. Dellimare, as he tried to lay a pipe-bombe in the holds
. He hit the ship on a sandbank as an evidence of his inocence. Later he
returned to the ship where he found out, that there were zementblocks in the
cargo bay, instead of aero-engines. In the end he got a check ofer 2500 pounds
from the insurance officer.
„ I´d warned him to keep out of the holds.
I shone my torch to him. He was pushing a pipe-shaped thing between a case and
the wall. He was trying to wreck the ship. I was in a furry. I hit him in the
face, full force. I wanted to kill him. His head hit the wall, crashed against
an iron angle. I dindn´t realise first that I´d killed him“ p.
76
Mr. Dellimare: He was the owner of the Mary
Deare and , the Torre Annunziata, which had been sold to the
Chinese before. He corruped a few members of the crew, to wreck the ship, but
he coundn´t corrupt Mr. Gildeon. After his death he was thrown into the
cole - intake, Mr. Dellimare was never found again.
Mr. Higgins: He was one of the men , which were
corrupted by Mr. Dellimare. He tried to prevent Mr. Sand and Mr. Gildeon
from finding out the truth. In the end
he died, when he tried to reach the Mary Deare
in a dinghy. He was never found again.
p. 83
Captain Taggart: captain of the Mary Deare, who
died because of alcohol, during the journey, later his first
officer Gideon Patch became captain of the Mary Deare Taggart had been
corrupted by Mr. Dellimare.
Miss Janet Taggart:C. Taggart´s daughter,
later she fell in love with Mr. Sands. p. 91
Rice: second officer of the Mary
Deare
Jack Burrow: member of the crew of the Mary
Deare who saved Mike´s live, when Mike crashed into
the motorboat of Mr. Higgins.
Hans Gundersen: director of Dellimar Company
p.63
Mr. Snetterton: he is working for the insurance
p. 43 , 92
Mike: member of the Sea Witch´s
crew
Yule: member of the crew of the Mary
Deare
Holland: officer at the
courthouse
Sir Lionel Falcett: representer of the
insurance
Plot:
One evening a big transport ship nearly crashed with
the sailingboat of Mr. Sand.
Because Mr. Sand coundn´t see anybody on the
bridge of the ship he entered it. On board he met captain Patch, who sent him
back to his ship, but Mr. Sand coundn´t because a storm was comming up.
After he reactivated the engines, the captain set the ship on sand, as an
evident of his inocence and the two emerged with a dinghy.
In the inquiry captain Patch said that somebody had
tried to wreck his ship, but he had no evidences. Later Mr. Sand and the
captain went back to the ship to proof that fact. In the end they found out
that the expensive aero-engines had been brought to an other ship, before they
left the habour . This ship, the Torre Annunziata had been sold to an
chinese company.
The book took place about twenty years ago, in England.
The story is told out of the sight of Mr.
Sands.
dicussion:
I liked the book, because it was short and easy to
read. It wasn´t very exiting, because, when you´ve raeched the middle
of the book, you know how it will end.The worst thing in the book is the
ending, because it´s like a fairytale. In the end the bad ones die, the
good ones get a check from the insurace. Mr. Sand marries Mss Taggart and they
live happyly until their last day.
With only about 10 pages more the book could be much
better, because then it could be written, where the plane-engines had gone. The
book only tells you that they have been sold to some Chinese. I couldn´t
identify with Mr. Sands at all.
bookreport
Miss Janet Taggart: C. Taggart´s
daughter
Holland: officer at the
courthouse
Sir Lionel Falcett: representer of the
insurance
Mr Sands:
Mike: member of the Sea Witch´s
crew
Captain Taggart: captain of the Mary
Deare
Gideon Patch: captain of the Mary
Deare
Rice: second officer of the Mary
Deare
Mr. Dellimare: the ship´s owner, who was
on the ship too, later
died, killed by Patch
Alfred Higgins: member of the
crew
Hans Gundersen: director of Dellimar
Company
Yule: member of the crew
Jack Burrow: member of the crew, who saved
mike´s live
Mr. Snetterton: he is working for the
insurance
Sea Witch: Patch´s Boat, later sunk, by an
accident
Mary Deare: boat
Bele Isle: other boat wich Patch wrecked
(3rd/4th of Februaryin Singapore
Torre Annunziata: second boat of Hans
Gundersen, which was sold to the Chinese
Mary Deare was lying alonsidethe Torre
Annunziata in the Rangoon river
He was pushinh a pipeshaped thing between a
case and the wall. His head crashed against an angle iron, his neck was
broken
Characters:
Mr Sands:
Gideon Patch: captain of the Mary
Deare
Captain Taggart: captain of the Mary Deare, who died
becaus of alcohol, during the j journy, later his first officer
Gideon Patch became captain of the Mary Deare
: Alfred Higgins member of the crew of the Mary
Deare
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