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Dauntless
and the Poplar Pirates
by Peter Dawlish
"Look out, David!" Alex cried warningly. "They are throwing
stones at us." David ducked, then raised himself cautiously.
There was a ringing sound and a yell of triumph.
"Got it!" a voice shouted jubilantly.
"I will get it as well," another voice cried and a stone hit
the Dauntless's mainmast. David saw the attackers as a row of
faces showing over the edge of the bridge balustrade and arms
upraised to throw more stones.
The crew of the Dauntless, David, Bob, Alex and Tim , have sailed
their boat up the Thames and moored her in Bow Creek and they
are not at all pleased at this reception. But they discover
the "Poplar Pirates", as these local lads call themselves, are
not really vicious, just showing their resentment at being warned
off the river boats by the local bargees. The Pirates are all
desperately keen on boats, so David and his friends decide to
offer them a trip in the Dauntless. There is fog in the river
and they rescue the unfriendliest of the bargees when his Thames
sailing barge gets wrecked on a sandbank. The bargee, his wife
and granddaughter Jenny take refuge on the Dauntless, but the
Pirates decide to salvage the barge so they can have a boat
of their own.
David is worried about the barge family whose home it is, and
the rest of the story tells of the exciting salvage of the barge
and how finally David extracts them all from a dramatic situation
by his tact and good seamanship.
Another in the series of exciting books about the Dauntless,
with the usual ingredients of a thrilling story and all the
fun of sailing as well as the interest of the details of life
on a working sailing barge in the late 1940-s.
ISBN: 0 86391 047 5
238pp Hardback
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