The Story of the Rock

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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Story of the Rock

Chapter One. Wreck of Winstanley’s Lighthouse

Chapter Two. Beginning of Rudyerd’s Lighthouse

Chapter Three. A Violent Interruption

Chapter Four. Unlooked-for Deliverance

Chapter Five. A Terrible Situation

Chapter Six. The End of Rudyerd’s Lighthouse

Chapter Seven. Old Friends In New Circumstances

Chapter Eight. Experiences, Difficulties, and Dangers of the First Season

Chapter Nine. Account of the War Continued

Chapter Ten. The Campaign of 1758

Chapter Eleven. The Last Campaign—and Victory!

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The terrible gale which swept away the first lighthouse that was built on the Eddystone Rock, gave ample proof of the evils resulting from the want of such a building. Just after the structure fell, a vessel, named the “Winchelsea,” homeward bound, approached the dreaded rock. Trusting, doubtless, to the light which had been destroyed so recently, she held on her course, struck, split in two, and went down with every soul on board.

The necessity for building another tower was thus made; as it were, urgently obvious; nevertheless, nearly four years elapsed before any one was found with sufficient courage and capacity to attempt the dangerous and difficult enterprise.

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Both mother and son looked inquiringly up, but did not speak, being too busy and hungry.

“Well, this is how it came about. I met Isaac Dorkin on my way to the docks this mornin’, an’ he says to me, says he, ‘John, I met a gentleman who is makin’ very partikler inquiries about the Eddystone Rock: his name he says is Rudyerd, and he wants to hire a lot o’ first-rate men to begin a new—’”

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