The _Seriphus_ was a ten thousand ton, straight bow ocean tanker, and her history was the common one of Clyde-built ships--a voyage here and a passage there, charters by strange oil companies, petrol for Brazil, crude petroleum that went to Asia (for anointment purposes among the heathen) and once there was a hurried call to some unpronounceable Aegean port where the _Seriphus_ acted against the Turks in their flare-up after the Great War. The ordinary and usual--the up and down the trade routes--passed away from the _Seriphus_ when Ezra Morgan, senior captain in the service of William Henningay and Son, took over the tanker and drove her bow into strange Eastern seas, loading with oil at C…
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