A powerful tale of the North Sea and the salvaging of ships which fell prey to German submarines. In the saloon of the Seabird, of the Carn Shipbreaking and Salvage Company, Big Jim Martin, managing director, sat with Davis, his under-manager, and MacArthur and Stewart, skipper and mate respectively, the chiefs of his salvage staff. The Seabird lay, with two sister vessels, at anchor on a North Sea shallows, over a sunken auxiliary cruiser--the Warpindi, a large liner that Big Jim had come to raise. For weeks divers had been busy at her shot holes; she was almost ready for lifting. One of them, straying from his fellows that afternoon, had made a strange discovery. Big Jim and MacArthur wer…
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