"There she is, sir, away to the right " said I, equally flurried, pointing over the lee rail in the direction where I had observed the ship only a second before... John Conroy Hutcheson, born in 1840 in Jersey, Channel Islands, was a British author of novels and short stories about life aboard ships at sea. John brought this adventure novel to life originally in 1903, now brought back to print for a new generation to love and enjoy.