So Ends This Day: Far Horizon

In the year 1819, a full rigged Indiaman of American registry, heavy laden with riches from the Indies, drives ashore in a roaring gale and wrecks on the string of barrier islands known as Cape Hatteras, “Graveyard of the Atlantic”. Sinking in the shallows, masts still above water, crew clinging to the rigging, three women and a babe in arms are safely secured together in the rigging of the main top where drenched by lashing rain they can only pray for help. Time and again rescue attempts l...