As Charlene showed David her bible, a spectacular moonlight lit up the deck below.
Fourth Officer Boxhall was reworking the ship's route on the chart. The winter had been very warm and bergs and pack ice were worse this year than normal. His mind was troubled because there was still a coal fire blazing on the ship and they were going at full steam
First Officer Murdoch walked onto the bridge. " Boxhall, did you get those binoculars?".
" Aye Sir, I did" he replied as he handed the leathercase to him. " Why can't they have them up in the crow's nest?".
" They don't need them" he replied. " We can see with them in here probably better than they can".
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