Replying to @luke
Welcome aboard. We haul Egypt’s grain to Italy. This trip, apparently, prisoners and soldiers too.
A sailor on the grain ship
@grainship.sailor · 15 posts
Ropes, sails, soundings.
Crew on the Alexandrian grain ship to Italy. Two hundred and seventy-six people aboard that voyage, and I was one of the ones meant to know what I was doing.
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Replying to @luke
Hugging the coast. Hard going all the way.
South wind. Gentle. This is our chance. Anchor up, keeping close to the coast of Crete.
The south wind hasn’t held. A wind like a whirlwind just came screaming down off the island. It’s the north-easter.
Ropes passed right under the hull and pulled tight, to hold her together.
Day three. Now it’s the ship’s own gear going over. Throwing it with our bare hands.
Replying to @paul
Some island. Which island?
Midnight. Something’s different. Pretty sure we’re near land.
Replying to @grainship.sailor
Dropped the line. Twenty fathoms.
Replying to @grainship.sailor
A bit further on. Fifteen. It’s getting shallow fast.
Everyone’s had all they want to eat. Now the grain’s going over the side, to lighten her.
Light. Nobody recognises this coast.
Sandbar. We’ve hit a sandbar.
Replying to @prisoner.to.rome
Bit of the deck here. Held on and kicked.
Malta. There’s your island.
Paul@paulWe will have to run aground on some island, though.