The Sea Witch by Maturin Murray, Fiction, Action & Adventure 12+

📙 The ship lives up to her name -- bewitching all those wave-seasoned souls who set eyes upon her: for she is long and sharp, with graceful concave lines and a flattened keel to give her buoyancy and safety over shoals. The Sea Witch proves so capable she even survives a storm that wrecks another -- and her crew manages to rescue many from that beleaguered ship."We have not even asked you, Captain Ratlin, what trade you are in," says the rescued mother of the beautiful Miss Huntington, who sits alongside the young commander on the quarter-deck, beneath an awning rigged for their comfort."Ahem! madam!" hesitated the Sea Witch's young captain, Will Ratlin. "We are -- that is, yes . . . we are on a trading voyage to the coast -- just at the present time!"