"Let us make for her.
If we can get on board we shall have a better chance than here." The boys again bent to their oars, and Frank tried to steer exactly for the spot whence the rocket had gone up.

Presently another gun flashed out.
"There she is," he said.

"I can see her now against the line of breakers.

Take the oar again, Ruthven.

We must bring up under shelter of her lee." In another minute or two they were within a hundred yards of the ship.
She was a large vessel, and lay just at the edge of the broken water.
The waves, as they struck her, flew high above her deck.