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    Smoked Skipper
    Smoked Skipper
    Smoked Skipper
    Audiobook27 minutes

    Smoked Skipper

    Written by W. W. Jacobs

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    When Ralph, the new cabin boy joins the schooner ship Susan-Jane, which is carrying a cargo of gunpowder, he finds to his surprise that he has not signed up for a life as a swashbuckling pirate.

    Instead of romance and adventure, he finds himself having to scrub decks and wash dishes. Worse still, any subordinance is punished harshly by the crew and the skipper.

    Ralph decides to take his revenge on the Skipper and his crew, and devises an ingenious plan...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateSep 27, 2013
    ISBN9781467654333
    Smoked Skipper
    Author

    W. W. Jacobs

    William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. Quite popular in his lifetime primarily for his amusing maritime tales of life along the London docks (many of them humorous as well as sardonic in tone). Today he is best known for a few short works of horror fiction.

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