The fog is getting thicker and thicker. After the ship sailed out of Southampton River, it came to the vast sea, and it was estimated that it was 15 nautical miles away from the Ejuy Mountains. The ship is moving slowly. It was about four o'clock in the morning.
It was dark around, and the top of the mast was almost invisible.
There is nothing to be afraid of when an English ship like this sails at night.
Suddenly, a black spot appeared in the thick fog. It looks like a ghost and a mountain peak. I saw a gloomy bow leaning forward, breaking through the darkness and flying wave by wave. That's the Mary, a big ship with a propeller. It set sail from Odessa, carrying 500 tons of wheat, which was very fast and extremely heavy. It came straight to Normandy.
The ship is about to hit, and there is no way to avoid it for an instant. It seems that many phantoms of ships have been raised in the fog. Before people can see them one by one, they will die at the last minute and be buried in the belly of fish.
The "Mary", which was running at full speed, hit the side of the "Normandy" and opened a big hole in her ship.
As a result of this collision, the Mary injured herself and finally stopped. There were twenty-eight crew members, a waitress and thirty-one passengers on the Normandy, twelve of whom were women.
Shock is terrible. In a flash, men, women, children, all of them rushed to the deck. People were half naked, running, screaming, crying, terrified and in chaos. The sea water poured into it, surging and unstoppable. The turbine furnace hissed and gasped by the waves.
There is no leak-proof partition wall in the cabin seal, and the lifebuoy is not enough.
Halwei Captain stood on the podium and shouted, "Everybody be quiet and pay attention to your orders! Put down the lifeboat. Women go first, other passengers follow, and the flight attendants stay behind. Sixty people must be rescued. "
In fact, there are 61 people in a * * *, but he forgets himself.
The crew quickly untied the lifeboat. Everyone swarmed, and the momentum of pushing and shoving almost overturned the boat. Aoukel Fu's first mate and three foremen tried their best to keep order, but the whole crowd was almost crazy and chaotic because of the sudden change. A few seconds ago, everyone was still sleeping. Suddenly, soon, they were going to die. How can this not make people lose their minds!
Just then, the captain's majestic voice drowned out all the cries and noises. In the darkness, people heard this short and powerful conversation: "Where is Locke's mechanic?" "Did the captain call me?" "What about the stove?" "The sea is flooding." "What about the fire?" "Get out." "What about the machine?" "Stop."
The captain shouted, "Director Echo Fu?"
The first mate replied, "Here!"
The captain asked, "How many minutes do we have?" "Twenty minutes." "That's enough," said the captain. "Let everyone aboard. Chief mate Hautcoeur Fu, do you have a pistol? " "yes, captain." "If a man dares to get ahead of a woman, you can shoot him."
Everyone was silent at once. No one goes against his will, and people feel that a great soul appears above them. "Mary" also put down the lifeboat and came to rescue the people who died because of its failure.
The rescue work was carried out in an orderly way, and there were almost no disputes and fights. It's always like this. Where there is despicable egoism, there will be tragic self-sacrifice to save others.
Halway stands tall in the position of captain, commanding, dominating and leading everyone. He considered all the people and things. In the face of the panicked crowd, he was as cool as a cucumber, as if he were giving orders to the disaster, not to others, and even the wrecked ship seemed to obey his orders.
After a while, he shouted, "Get Clemens out!"
Clemens is a trainee sailor, but he is only a child.
The ship sank slowly into the deep sea.
People tried their best to speed up and paddle back and forth between Normandy and Mary. "Quick!" The captain shouted again
Twenty minutes later, the ship sank.
The bow sank first, and in a short time, the sea flooded the stern.
Halwei Captain stood on the bridge, without making a gesture or saying a word. Just like iron casting, he did not move and sank into the abyss with the ship. People watched the black statue slowly sink into the sea through the gloomy mist.
Halwei Captain's life ended like this.
No sailor can match him in the English Channel.
All his life, he asked himself to be loyal to his duties and complete his life. Facing death, he became a hero in his own right.
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