... Dick Sands, the Boy Captain Jules Verne Translated by Ellen E. Frewer Dick Sands, the Boy Captain 14 however much she heeled to starboard, when suddenly the little fellow ... occurred, but as, in the heeling over, this aperture had been carried some five or six feet above the water, the vessel had escaped the immediate foundering which must otherwise have ensued; ... roused by the shock of the collision, which was extremely severe, they hurriedly made their way on to the deck. The scene was terrible; both masts were gone, and the brig, although the water...