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They poor time, Captain Slenson.

And very wind with Dine 18.

You will not sail close.

Don't tell me how much of sails.

With no bonus, sister.

He's leading to the gunnels.

Slow on the hill.

It is better to arrive safely than not at all, I think.

Captain Slenson every day costs money.

Bonus answer, never out of it.

Here you are, little penny fat for you.

You there?

Get these stockings here.

Step away there, will you plus you?

Get the bird boy, Mr. Anedin.

We've seen a different tune to one he did a couple of years ago,

aren't you?

Then you was chasing me for 15 sovereigns

and chucking my casks up the key.

Times change, Mr. Anedin.

Times change.

Well, but do I, my duty?

The company assets now stand at 27,484 pounds, 10 shillings,

and four bits.

Well, we've not done too badly, hey?

Assets, but how much of that is actually cash in hand?

I have no fear, Anne.

We're well cushioned against adversity.

Have you taken into account Roberts 15%?

Cheryl just paid on profits, not assets.

You must stop treating him as a poor relation, James.

He eats everyone as if they just come from the parish.

I want this little and open money prices,

which is your purse anymore than it does into my pocket.

Now, you'll be quiet, Father.

Robert is a shareholder and is such

as entitled to return on his investment.

15 pounds worth of shares.

When you needed it most?

Have you any idea how much those shares are now worth?

No.

Nor I imagine this Robert.

It'll be paid.

But first I must pay off sinuplagancer

from our share of the Pamparo.

Now that's 1,500 pounds.

Maybe if I declare a bonus of 200 pounds,

that should take care of Robert.

15%.

Well, a company cannot expand without reserves.

Household accounts.

Pay them then.

I cannot.

Must think me a bottomless pit.

Very well, I'll write you a draft on the bank.

Damn tradesmen.

They must extend that credit.

They have extended it.

Those shopkeepers once fought for our custom.

Now that we've fallen on lean times,

they choose to snap at our heels.

Very well as you seemingly can't out deal with them.

I'm a shopkeeper's doctor.

I know that there comes a point when the tradesmen must cry

halt.

We have reached that point.

Steam shipmen, they're only designers.

Sailing shipmen laugh at my notions.

What am I to do?

Make it up with your father.

I'm sure he'd welcome you back into his business.

I'm going to spend the rest of my life

designing Mars and Spars.

Without employment, we shall starve.

Oh, I cannot, Elizabeth.

I cannot.

It's no more than a little pride on both sides.

My father had the impertinence to state in public

that I'd married beneath myself and without parental consent.

The fault is mine, so I will apologize.

You'll do no such thing, I forbid it.

As you wish, Albert.

Where are you going?

Is he, James?

About a promise.

200 pounds.

It's a fortune of it.

Don't imagine that I didn't earn it.

I'll slave down at those docks.

The indolence of some of those workers is past belief.

What is it, if it didn't?

It's my share of one year's profits, 15%.

200 pounds?

But James must be making money hand over fish.

You're the scestable where this came from?

Right.

Then we're back 50 pounds immediately,

and a little San Diego's name.

Then we can pay all our outstanding accounts.

We can renew all this stock, and we can...

And I can have a new suit.

Oh, I don't know.

You made a promise.

I didn't know such thing.

As God's me witnessed.

Now look, we were in a bit of a tight spot.

It was either a federal prison or a fanciful tale.

You said that the contraband profits were

to be used to build a steamship.

To be built by Albert.

Now that was baked at dangle before an ambitious Yankee.

Fortunately for us, he swallowed it.

Now that ambitious captain walked off with 15,000 pounds of my money.

If anybody's in a position to help you, it should be him.

By my reckoning, he showed enough enthusiasm

to build a dozen steamships.

And you cannot summon enough courage to invest in one.

Oh, look, when I build a ship, it won't be out of charity.

Is that your last word? No.

No, I do have it in mind to get myself another ship,

and when I do, it'll be a sister to the Pamparo.

And you're a fool.

Albert, the day that you can show me how one steamship can bring

in a better profit than two of sale, I'll give you an order.

All right.

Come and lose the wiz.

James.

I'll give you a little help.

Poor Albert.

Albert spalled with education to learn to stand on his own free log

either to do.

And you're wasting your time.

Mr. Baines will never wear a master's uniform.

I have every confidence in Mr. Baines.

Give it to me, Herring.

Bye, Mr.Harry.

Hi, Mr. Bo tourism.

Why, Mr. Fogarty?

Mrs. Fraser?

Aren't we being formal over certain?

I think it better.

Since you came up in the world.

Albert has proved to be a good husband.

I can think of no better.

The choice was yours.

And how is Miss Emma Callan these days?

She's well.

Why do you ask?

Because it seems to me, Mr. Fogarty, that you too set your sights high.

So you have a mind to come back into the firm, have you?

It seemed to be a great deal of bother about nothing.

You broke your mother's heart.

Oh, nonsense.

Father, my mother's a heart of flint as well, you know.

Why, under my roof, you'll speak respectfully of your mother, or not at all.

I speak of her, much as you treat her.

That's enough. I work to do.

I could.

Well, now that we've disposed of family affairs,

shall we discuss business?

Business, what do you know of business?

You chose to ignore sound practical advice and you married that scheming iron monger's daughter.

You're a chandler's, actually.

It was your father you will remember who dealt in nuts and bolts.

Your grandfather was a manufacturer.

I knew it was some sort of trade.

I didn't spend good money on your education to have the privilege of sitting in my office, trading sarcasms.

No.

You invested in me education like a prudent man might put capital aside for his old age.

And what's wrong with that?

You had a better start in life than ever I had.

A man has every right to expect a son to follow in his footsteps,

lends support to him in his old age.

At last we're beginning to see eye to eye.

I do have a poor head for business, but much of that is your fault.

And so you must be prepared to shoulder some of the responsibility.

I'll tell you what's wrong with the way you're carrying on your business.

You're under capitalized and you spend too much of your time trying to cram your crackpot notions down other people's throats.

I have made mistakes.

Now you're come creeping back to me, cap in hand.

It won't wash out, but it won't wash.

And a mistake me talent elsewhere.

Talent? What talent?

I try for over sparred, don't you think?

No sparred there. Power to driver.

That'll be one of Kellen's U-Clip, especially designed for the Wall Trade.

I'm expecting regular 80-day passages from her.

And 40 men to crew her.

I could redesign her and she would sail with but half that crew.

Get on about your busted steam engines again!

Have I interrupted?

No, Elizabeth, I was just leaving.

I do apologize for the intrusion, Mr. Fraser, but your clock directed me here.

It was no intrusion.

Our discussion was at an end.

Oh, thank you.

You're most considerate, Mr. Fraser.

You'll take a little refreshment.

Well...

I insist.

Then how can I refuse?

You're not at all the ogre I remember.

Orger? Me?

I was terrified out of my wits.

Terrified?

Of me?

My limbs quite turned to water. Thank you.

Even my brother James stands in all of you.

James?

The ship owner.

Of course. Young I need him.

I hear he streaked a few noses on his march of success.

I don't call him, will ever forgive him.

I'm afraid James lacks your gallantry, sir.

He's far too outspoken.

An unfortunate habit which will surely someday cause a smutual concern.

You've quite lost me, madam.

People committed to the shipping interests tend to move in small circles.

Unguarded tongues can create a situation of common embarrassment.

Yes, of course.

And the fault is holy mine.

Not my dear.

I made an error of judgment.

I've made few mistakes in my life, but when I do, I'm the first to all I'm wrong.

You start tomorrow, Albert, on the dot of aid.

And mind you to forget your crack butt notions about building these iron monstrosities.

Is that understood?

Yes, Father.

No.

Welcome Bob.

Oh, I pass it.

I pass me, Master's.

You're a good one.

Come along, then.

What?

The campero waiting for the nurse.

The campero?

What did you expect for your first command? A smoke pot?

Hold on. Captain, you're the lain.

But James owes it to Albert.

You heard James. He says he made no such undertakings.

You were present at the time.

It's very difficult. The promise was made, but only to invade all that captain.

When matters of business, the consent James has all gone to himself.

A doubted order as much as a robot, out of sentiment.

Then we must persuade him.

How?

At a little dinner party, perhaps?

Dinner party?

Oh, I think that's a splendid notion.

Well, Robert and I would be delighted to attend.

You could ask Mr. and Mrs. Fraser. And your father Anne.

Then, after the ladies have left the gentleman to their port in cigars, they can discuss business.

And who knows where that may lead.

But it'd be easy to pass the proverbial camel through the island.

And he'll have an eadleman, as way James to attend a formal dinner party.

He can hardly avoid an appearance at his own.

Never forget, a master's first duty is to his own.

My floor is buried in mindset.

If you get it, it's difficult. If don't start sending the frantic and muddled messages home.

No, sir.

The ship's singled up for an after. Thank you, Mr. Tranter.

Allow me to see you a Shor's.

I will help you.

Good luck.

Every confidence in you?

My best to miss his own eatings, sir.

Vad and Viva her, I'd never have warned this.

Never in doubt, never in doubt.

Never in confidence in you.

Thank you, sir.

Hey, come on, clear again. We look like you there.

Strandor, sir?

Ship is yours, Mr. Tranter.

Hi, l sir.

It's Carstor's floor and off. Gee, lad, what color?

Take it off, go with the shake on us.

The

Herbal court-creature was bound to the mast.

And the villain, such a monster as you never saw, was about to sit far to the ship.

I suppose the hero arrived in the very nick of time, down the villain with one blow, Mr. Miss, and rescued the ugly.

Yes, he did.

But what then what happened?

Why, within minutes, the ship became a roaring inferno and blew up in a monstrous explosion.

Taking the villain to his well-deserved reward.

Oh, that's on a sting.

Twice nightly.

I'd have given better odds on the villain's chances if it had been an iron ship.

Granted, iron ships don't cut far so easily, but their boilers do explode.

A typical sailing ship, man's tail, went to the last steamship blower.

Just a few months ago, I've tranmeer with considerable damage to property.

It's the work of an incenduous, you as laden with gum powder.

That sounds like a typical steamship man's tail.

What do you say, O'neaden?

Oh, what's in short?

Everything under the compartment, Mr. Trander.

It's not a ice in the air.

The divers he goes will be in brown skin, laden goods, and all the federal changes are moving.

Aye, aye, sir.

You kind of pretend that steam packets are not today crossing the ocean.

Mainly on the sail, but merely on the sail.

The first sign of bad weather, they danced their fires and hoisted their canvas.

Leave them to the navy, my boy.

They can afford to back their follies with taxpayers' money.

A major today with a dot-indurgent follizer.

A must-degree captain, Webster.

The Board of Admiralty has a somewhat longer purse than most of us.

A navy that has the wit and imagination to build a ship such as the iron-clad warrior,

is a little bit of reprimand from a wooden ship builder.

Darge, she was a converted full rigged ship, neither fishing or file out a date before she was built like all the rest of them.

But you were too blind and you too obstinate to recognize a fact when it's thrust before you.

The facts are, now, but without government subsidy, steamships can't appear their way.

They would if they built them my way.

What did you go away?

There is your sailing ship.

Stick an engine in it.

Everyone imagines you have a steamship.

You haven't.

You have a steam-driven sailing ship.

So?

You start to fresh your builder's ship around the engine.

Now, you take out these miles.

Yeah, hold on, hold on. It's just a whole bunch of water I can imagine.

Mr. Baines is obvious. Left to be honest.

We build a steam-driven floating warehouse.

Go on.

Now, Captain Baines on the poop of his sailing ship cannot see what lies ahead.

But on this ship, just for it or the funnel, we build a walk.

But by bridging the mid-ship sections like this, the officer on duty can see all around the horizon.

That should go to bring in your insurance rates down.

How much of that ton is just taken up by engine and coal?

About a thousand tons.

Then she'll live a shore profit.

That sailing ship can carry 1500 tons of cargo compared with that Puffin Billish 500.

No. The upper limits of sail have been reached.

The upper limits of a power-driven ship are not yet inside.

I've designed this ship to carry two and a half thousand tons.

Two and a half thousand tons?

What? She goes straight down to the bottom.

What do you do when the engine blows up?

Well, the same as you do when sailing ships dis-mastery.

Bigger ships will need bigger engines, therefore more coal.

More powerful engine is not necessarily large.

Mr Elders, compound engine, uses lower fuel consumption per horsepower.

What speed?

Around 12 knots.

Any of the colours squaring is for sure a clean, very healed.

You've sailed to Quibbeck recently, didn't you, Jim?

How long did it take?

38 days out, 14 days back.

52 days? You made a good passage.

This ship will take 14 days there and 14 days back.

28 days?

As regular as clockwork.

You forget in fuel, Castland.

The wind costs low man of pity-piece.

Except in time.

I've estimated an expenditure of about a thousand pounds for coal.

Resinise round figure to chip off your profits.

What profit?

Some of which could be offset against the savings and insurance.

Now you say there's no upward limit to size.

The size is limited only by the strength of iron and the power of the steam.

How much will it cost?

Save 40,000 pounds.

40,000 pounds.

40,000? I could build your four clippers for that money.

Two of these, Mr Fraser, can carry the same cargo in half the time.

You're not persuaded.

Oh, show me the way to continue in profits and you'll find me these,

you're the one in the world to persuade.

Now, when could we start building?

You really mean it?

Hold on.

Well, you'll find the money.

Well, there's a performing a public company.

Well, Father.

This needs a deal of thinking.

Ah, you're not equipter bills, such a vessel.

Now, you see, the limitations are in the strength of the iron and into the power of the steam.

So you could build me a ship that'll carry you.

4,000 tons. So it took me back and back in 24 days.

Can you do that?

Yeah.

But not for 40,000 pounds.

How much, then?

I'll say 60,000.

I'm wearing business.

Not yet.

I'll go elsewhere.

This means heavy investment for Fraser's.

In large yards, new slipway, machine shops.

I think my son deserves a higher return than a design fee.

If you're determined on this course and you go public, I'll not stand in Albert's way.

But Fraser's must have 20% holding.

Or 10% into Albert, not to Fraser's.

15.

And to Albert.

And if you go to Arnill, take only one of the Fraser's with you.

Right.

I'll float 100,000 pounds with the shares, 50% to Albert's.

But that ship must be mine.

All right.

Shall we join the ladies?

Dr. Robert had said, I'll prepare. There's a pukless door.

I'm telling my dear, we've got talking business.

You know the way it is.

I think dinner's gone very well, don't you, James?

Oh, very well, yes.

It just cost me 100,000 pounds.

What's your function doing, Anne?

I want this

to be your father's place with your mother told him to lose.

Mr. Fraser.

I like to clean the ship with the transmitter.

I clean the ship with a tidy ship.

I like it.

You need strength, tonnage and speed.

For strength, we're building a composite.

Take planking over iron frames.

For tonnage, 36 foot beam, 20 foot draft.

For speed, 17,000 square yard of canvas.

The spa there, Tom. Power to driver.

It'll cost me a king's ransom, I've no doubt.

It'll cost you.

It'll cost you?

Still for a deal short of all needed, Mark.

Oh.

And what is all need and's, Mark?

Albert courted him 60,000. He never blinked.

60,000 pounds? What do you do, Leema?

Fleet of Wailers.

I've got a steamship on my book, Stomp.

A steamship.

You, you're the man of war, sorry to have no trap with these smoke pots.

Oh, Nieden's money's as good as yours.

Oh.

And the smart of it.

Oh, is this?

But he'll rock you, Mark.

My words, he'll rock you.

If anybody gets his fingers burned, it'll be young Albert.

Well, that's got to learn some time.

And if he takes a tumble with on Nieden,

it'll be as good a blodding as he'll ever get.

Oh, Bert.

Steam will be a side of the business.

Not mine.

I'm too old a dog to learn new tricks.

Oh, you take care, you're not left holding the baby.

Nieden and Leema raise that kind of money never in this world.

He's forming a public company.

To the tune of a hundred thousand pounds.

What, I ask why you've settled on this particular sum?

Well, sixty thousand for building and forty thousand for operating costs.

Your costs, if I may say so, appear to be abnormally high when compared to your original investment.

Well, if the ships are success, I want immediate capital for laying down the keel of the second.

And you have no wish to water your stock by a second as your shares.

Very wise, Mr. Leeden.

Very wise.

Now, I also wish to keep complete control of the company.

Advice.

Now, your first step will be to issue a prospectus.

A prospectus is an inducement of tech shares.

It has been held at a New Brunswick Railway Company versus Migrid 1860,

that those who issue a prospectus are bound to state everything with strict and scrupulous accuracy.

For example, if the objective of your company is to build such and such a type of ship,

and for such and such other purposes as laid down in the company's memorandum of association,

then those purposes are bound to be stated clearly and must not be departed from.

In short, the company's finances must not be used for any other purpose than that which has been declared.

Now, is that clearly understood?

Yeah, plain as a bagstaff, I borrow money to build an operator's steam ship.

Now, how do I keep control of the company?

There's only one effective method, and that is by holding a majority of the shares.

That would come to more than 50,000 pounds. It's just not possible.

This is in fact entirely possible.

A shareholder is notoriously divisive in their opinions.

It is not always necessary to hold an absolute majority.

But why, sir?

Oh, Prudence, certainly. If you can afford the luxury.

No, but we can't. So there's an entry to it?

Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

But yes, what? I mean, sir.

There's 100,000 pounds for which you ask me.

Very well not be required immediately.

You can have four call upon it. If you wish, all the shareholders to pay only one half of the nominal amount.

The company would, in that case, have 50,000 pounds in capital, and a further 50,000 pounds on call.

On call?

You call upon each share to buy one pound shares for ten trillions each.

And they undertake to pay the company the balance on demand when called upon.

So, if I am I associated, so let's say, hold 20,000 pounds worth of shares?

The company would effectively be yours.

Ever stopped off in Rio, Mr. Transur?

Hi, I, sir.

I wish a lot of my strength and money along that waterfront.

Hopson Horr is the Cursa Sea Faradman.

When shifting, Mr. Tratt, we must be losing the trades.

I'll be a sight merrier once being rounded the horn.

Mr. Fogarty, my uncle had the kindness to invite me to luncheon. I trust my presence will not incommode you.

She invited herself to business, I said, but Emma's got a mind of her own.

This is damn done neaten, getting too big for his boots.

Mr. Fraser had sufficient backbone to defy his parents and marry beneath him.

Quite a pretty little thing, I recall.

I saw an enterprise doomed to failure.

Judge too harshly, uncle. I rather applaud their courage.

And speaking of this prospectus, you obliged me miss by holding a tongue one, Mr. Fogarty and I are talking business.

You know, young Albert calls this proposed vessel of his a floating warehouse.

Fraser's folly, that's what I call it.

Can you imagine it? A ship without mass or spars or sails?

There's nothing but a hulk, a parambulating hulk without provisions for sail at all? No.

Albert Fraser must be confident he's found a completely reliable engine.

There's no such thing. If there was, I'd have heard about it. No.

One neaten's overstepped himself this time. His specifications are impossible.

I think on it, Daniel, is a ship carrying a cargo of 4,000 ton at a speed of 14 knots for a range of 6,000 miles.

Never come off the slip way. You mock my words.

Hell, if it does, days of sail are over. You're not serious.

You think on it, Mr. Callan, steam took its first steps on 20 odd years ago.

Maybe time to take another. You're frightened.

You're afraid of these steam cracks? I am.

If Fraser's not eating a fountain of the antle, there'll not be a trade route left on for sail.

There are heavy investments in sail, sir.

It's a trailer by steam, not pie in the sky. It'll have happened. Not in our lifetime.

But one needs others for all.

That's the only one answer, sir. Yes?

Take control of the all-needing line.

Masks? But I thought you'd not require sails.

But if you're losing your nervous duel, I took a bite now.

The master supports. The foot of each mast, I'll fit a pair of cranes.

Derricks. The derricks can be hoisted or lowered by means of a wire rope, attached to a steam winch, the foot of the mast,

within utilise the steam winch for raising or lowering cargo.

There's a saving in labour. What do you think, brother, Robert?

Oh, well. But I just can't visualise a ship without sails.

I... And it appears to be very little for a great deal of money.

Well, I'm still late to change your mind now.

Robert, there's a point out that you know we've a deal invested in the school now exactly how is our money being spent, then?

Well, I can't give you a detailed breakdown of figures, but I've asked for reputable engineering firms to submit tenders to build an engine to my specifications.

At a total cost of between 15, 20,000 pounds.

For one engine? Well, that includes boilers, steam winches, propeller shafts, pipes and so on.

I've asked for an engine that'll develop two and a half thousand horsepower.

Say no more and exactly where our money's going.

Straight up the chimney and come out and smoke.

Daniel, my father will not live forever.

I trust your father will have many happy years to come, Miss Callum.

Daniel, my name is Emma.

One must be practical about these matters. My father's already made certain I do not go to any man without due provision.

And or fortune hunter?

Dear Daniel, how could anyone possibly impute to you an ignoble motive?

I assure you I...

But there are times when I find your model retitude somewhat constrained.

Register closed at a hundred thousand pounds.

Do we have him? He's mortgage himself up the hilt. We loan him. Lock, stock and barrel.

Now I'll go to the house. Haven't seen one for years.

It's a bad luck bird. It's not like a curse.

Superstition. Seamenship that counts.

We're not making good time. I'll try the stencils mate.

Is this weather?

Man, like a real tea clipper. I'll give the order, Mr. Tranter.

Oyster stencils! Main and together!

Skuttcils mate and together!

I'm stable to me. It's certainly be pooped in the first heavy following scene.

If she ever butts the tea, I bought two chairs. Register to be money.

If I may have your attention please gentlemen.

This is our first annual general meeting.

To introduce myself and my colleagues.

I'm James O'Neden, shareholder. This is Mr. Robert O'Neden, shareholder.

This is our designer, Mr. Albert Fraser, shareholder.

This is a model of Mr. Fraser's brain. No doubt, sir.

Due course you'll wish to question Mr. Fraser in some detail.

Particularly as to how he's been spending our money.

Now then you each have an agenda paper in front of your ticket.

So we may take the first item which is election of chairman and officers.

If I could have your nomination speed.

I nominate James O'Neden.

I second.

I nominate Mr. Thomas Callan. I second that nomination.

Well I must rule you out of order, Mr. Foggadee, as far as I'm aware Mr. Callan is not the share order of this company.

You're wrong, O'Neden. I am. In fact I'm the principal shareholder.

Just look up the name well, will you, and oblige me?

2,500 shares.

Oh, let's cut this nonsense short.

I hold share warrants in the name of Foggade, Hard Castle, Turnstell and Fungold.

Just check them in your register, will you, Mr. Robert?

Is that changing? You're not voting.

You seem to have the advantages of others, Mr. Callan.

Therefore seem that you share orders here. Hold the balance.

Why not put it to the test, O'Neden?

I think you'll find they'll vote my way.

Well, as you might have gathered, Mr. Callan and myself are at logariths.

Mr. Callan's chosen to enter this company through the back door.

A buying shares through nominees.

Just ask yourselves why, gentlemen.

I can tell you why.

If Aneden had seen my name on that register, he'd had a shoulder nominees of his own.

And then you would all be in his pocket by now.

Well, then ask yourselves why Mr. Callan's so eager to seize control of this company.

I just want to see it conducted on sound financial principles.

That's all. That's a very charitable thought, particularly coming from a man so committed to fail as Mr. Callan.

Now, my colleagues and myself, we have put every penny that we possess into this project.

That is an earnest of our faith.

You must have had faith in it, too, otherwise you wouldn't have put in a penny piece.

So far, everything's been on paper.

But now we've all had an opportunity of seeing for ourselves a model of this eighth wonder of the world.

Oh, look at it. I asked you, gentlemen.

You must see such a monstrosity in all your life.

Well, I'm sure Mr. Fraser will be only too willing to answer any questions that you may wish to put to it, eh?

Why has no provision been made for the carrying of sales in the event of an engine breakdown?

I'm confident that this engine will not break down.

Oh, a shariagance?

Does no such thing as a trouble-free engine?

No.

There never will be.

Seven odd manner, but we have to just a win over four of them.

Should there be any difficulty the matter can be speedily rectified by trained engineers?

In every weather, you've brought your third turtle.

You've been at sea long enough to know the answer to that, Mr. Fogarty. You've put out a sea anchor.

To all the ship of that size.

Built of iron with four thousand tons of cargo.

You never make a drug big enough.

Well, I would.

So would you.

How much power will your engine develop, Mr. Fraser?

Three thousand horsepower.

Three thousand horsepower is unheard of.

It would shake the ship to pieces.

Brabish.

Are you an engineer, Mr. O'Brien?

Mr. Brandy.

Well, engineers and notoriously blunt in their space,

but yours is the most sensible question that we've heard so far, so break on Tony Armstrong.

Mr. Fraser would welcome the opportunity of further explanation, eh?

Look at the little china.

Is it not a fact that Mr. Brunel only required fifteen hundred horsepower to propel the Great Britain

at a speed of twelve knots? Dimes change.

That was twenty years ago, sir.

But she's still sailing, which speaks well of her original design.

But she had sailed. Six mass with sails.

Brunel apparently did not have as much faith in his engine as you do, Mr. Fraser.

And with good reason.

In Brunel's day, engines were forged of iron.

Mine will be made of steel.

It's cheaper, it's greater tensile strength and more reliability.

Brunel's boiler pressures were fifteen pounds per square inch.

Mine will be sixty.

There's another house.

The damn thing doesn't shake itself to pieces, it'll blow up.

I think I'm going to ask for my money back.

I'll take your shares tomorrow, Callen.

I, but not today. You've run out of capital, haven't you?

Well, then, give me until tomorrow and I'll find it.

No doubt. Because by tomorrow and news of this, I saw leaks out.

These shares won't be worth the paper they're printing on.

Look, what are you proposing? We weren't at the company before we started.

It's better than throwing good money after that, isn't it?

For the man who claims to have the interests of the investors at home,

there's a particularly pessimistic point of view.

How are you? Are you scared of a bit of a competition then?

Oh, listen, all right, just a cover.

I noticed that this ship is to be steered by that midship structure of the bridge.

On the assumption that this bridge is not washed overboard in the first heavy sea,

how do you propose to connect the steering wheel to the rudder?

By a series of iron rods and chains running along the after deck.

Isn't that an angiom in engineering that the strength of a chain lies in its weakest link?

Just how many weak links will connect rudder to steering wheel, Mr Fraser?

And even if your engine is half as sound as you claim it to be,

what happens to your ship when one of those weak links snuffs?

It is replaced.

Oh.

Replaced.

Have you ever served aboard a ship, Mr Fraser?

No.

And I doubt that you've ever designed an engine.

Then perhaps we'll ask Mr O'Need in his opinion, for he happens to be of the same qualifications.

Is it not a fact Mr O'Need in?

That a ship without a rudder isn't the mercy of the sea?

What?

True.

Now I was on such a ship once.

One of yours, Mr Callan.

How much coal will we needed to drive this 3,000 horsepower machinery, Mr Fraser?

And a boiler pressure of 60 pounds per square inch, 2 pounds per horsepower per hour.

No matter what happens, you stay on the board.

Callan tell throw you off without showing his hand.

If we lose, I resign.

It'll be a fool.

We've got to see the ship through.

You're the only one that can do it.

You really do believe in it.

Oh, I do.

Especially now that Callan's shown his claws.

He believes in it, and he believes in it, and the top frightens him.

If the voting goes against you, what will you do?

Fight him.

It's out of him, I mean.

One must break the other.

Mr Fraser, correct me if I'm wrong, but my calculations show that your figure of 2 pounds per horsepower per hour would give a coal consumption of 2 and a half tons per hour.

That is so?

You'll agree, Mr Fraser, the wind is a free commodity, but a variable one.

It could prove an expensive economy in the long run, but you have no intention of taking advantage of this free wind.

None whatsoever.

Not even when that wind can blow a ship along at 18 or 20 knots.

You'll still obstinate or refuse to use it?

Yes, sir, you keep these non-economical engines turning over 24 hours a day.

Exactly.

Set a cost, gentlemen.

Over and above all the other costs, at a cost of not less than 50 pounds a day of hour money.

You'll go up in smoke of the tin chimney, stat there.

I say it's not to be born.

I'll turn it into a t-shirt.

You will get your demand.

All right, the demand you want in fact, every penny.

Every power lies on cuts to the banks there.

Come on, I have to cut it back.

What are you trying to do?

Are you trying to ruin us?

Come on, every day of land.

Look, it's time for the game to mind.

Hell!

I'm not my name.

Gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, please, I beg you, don't play into his hands.

It only needs two minority shareholders to withdraw their investment and all Eden holds this company in his fist.

Now, I'm not against innovation, gentlemen, but I've been in business too long and too successfully to be hoodwinked by such a catch-penny scheme

as this.

Well, I have faith in this ship, but with reasonable modification.

Never.

I'm a reasonable man, sir.

I say that this ship with musts and sails and an engine of somewhat less power could be a worthwhile proposition.

Now, I'm sure the name of Mr. Alfred Holt is well known to all of you.

Mr. Alfred Holt.

Alfred Holt is a prudent scholarly man and a brilliant engineer.

No, sir.

Oh, well, Mr. Holt is about to build an iron ship for the Far East trade.

Now, this ship will be the finest and most powerful steamship ever built, but it will have three musts and a full set of sails.

Hey!

Gentlemen, I've already nominated Mr. Callen for chairman.

I have seconded the motion.

All in favor?

All in favor?

Carried, I think, Mr. O' Needon?

Well, Callen, I'm still a sheriff.

Not for long, I need him. Not for long.

Callen's first objective. I want me to call in the balance.

A further 20,000?

We'll have a breathing space a month or two.

He can't act too quickly.

Callen might be chairman and majority shareholder, but he doesn't own the company.

You can't play ducks and d'rakes with the company's finances, not while I'm looking over his shoulder.

Now, that's a lesson that I'm going to teach him.

We still have our sailing ships.

And another star, let's go!

There she is, tear, dill, for a go.

I and a light storm to go with it. If we hold on, my snorkels are the least sure.

I was a tranter.

Read the top, so glad, Captain.

And the two gallons.

Read the top, sir.

Hold her steady!

Look at those ships, Taina! Gotcha!

Kill!

Those preseason, you assured us!

Their screwed of fire is dead.

Mom!

No!

Damn him!

Damn him to hell!

He's first come on!

At least he's among those saved homeward bound now.

It's a total loss.

Nothing to say.

Nothing. Nothing. But she was insured.

For doubling round the horn.

Seems even the elements are against me.

The other ships are the cargo's.

Come now, where's the man I married?

The man with ambition enough for an army of Napoleon's.

I brought you nothing but misfortune.

Then I married you for security.

Don't you regret our marriage now?

I may have married you for security.

But I found something more important.

You've not lost everything.

You still have the Charlotte roads.

What?

Seems I still have you.

I'm not going to be a

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