
The Lost Warship - by ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II - When the Sun Jumped
CHAPTER III - The Return of the Dove
CHAPTER IV - Silver on the Sea
CHAPTER V - The Ogrum
CHAPTER VI - The City of the Ogrum
CHAPTER VII - The Attack
CHAPTER VIII - The End of Adventure
A Pacific warship is ripped apart by a sudden bombing, leaving a handful of sailors stranded in a small lifeboat on a glass‑like sea where no wind has blown for days. The scorching sun beats down on cracked throats while their water supplies have been reduced to a single cup. Among the castaways, a rugged soldier named Craig clutches the only pistol, assuming the role of reluctant leader. Opposite him, the restless girl Margy Sharp presses for a share of the water, turning the cramped craft into a stage for a fierce power struggle.
Their heated exchange lays bare a brutal calculus: who deserves the dwindling resource and what lengths the strong will go to survive. As desperation sharpens, the dialogue hints at deeper secrets and the ominous mystery of the vanished warship that left them adrift. Listeners are drawn into a claustrophobic survival drama that asks whether morality can endure when water becomes more precious than life itself.
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (147K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2010-05-28
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects

1907–1977
A prolific pulp-era storyteller, he wrote fast-moving science fiction and fantasy for magazines and paperbacks, often under several pen names. His work helped fill the shelves of mid-20th-century genre reading with lost worlds, strange futures, and nonstop adventure.
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