Travel and Adventures of Captain Gatterus

On April 6, 1860, the Liverpool embankment turned into a real Babylon. The local audience, sophisticated in the naval business, was torn from curiosity. The source of this curiosity was the screw brig "striker", equipped with additional masts and steel, like a razor, a force, capable of putting in two any three -deck ship in two. A strange brig gained a team without reporting the purpose of swimming. Payment was offered five times more than usual, but the main condition for all crew members was the lack of a family. This suggested that swimming would be deadly. To top it all about the personality of the captain of the “striker ", the most alarming rumors went, casting doubt that this is a person at all