Salvage Extra Special

Captain Rawson Bent of the coast-guard cutter Arrowsic has barely returned to his Maine station when a fresh distress call sends him back into dangerous waters. The stranded schooner Harvest Home lies off Popham Sands with a woman and children aboard, and Bent's immediate response is sharpened by an old, private attachment to the ship's name. As the cutter battles shoaling surf and a tricky ebb tide, Bent's rescue becomes a tense operation in which every move must be timed with care. When a line is finally shot aboard, the supposed rescue turns suspicious: the schooner's master resists help, and Bent begins to suspect a smuggling run hidden beneath the emergency. That suspicion explodes when he discovers the captain is York Coombs, his brutal former master, long thought dead. Their reunion becomes a fierce reckoning of memory, punishment, and hard-earned respect, especially after Coombs's speechless fit is broken and he confesses that the Harvest Home is carrying concealed liquor, its crew corrupted and his own pride ruined. Bent also learns that a woman and her children are entangled in the scheme. With dry wit and steady authority, he seizes the vessel, protects the truth from zealous officials, and chooses a practical, humane course that brings the crisis to an uneasy but fitting close. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.