{"id":407,"date":"2012-02-27T13:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T13:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=407"},"modified":"2022-06-25T00:05:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T00:05:45","slug":"hains-thornton-jenkins-captain-mayn-clew-garnett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/h\/hains-thornton-jenkins-captain-mayn-clew-garnett\/","title":{"rendered":"Hains, Thornton Jenkins (“Captain Mayn Clew Garnett”)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"hains,<\/a>by Bert Bender<\/em> (2000)<\/p>\n

[HAINS, THORNTON JENKINS], “CAPTAIN MAYN CLEW GARNETT” (1866-1953). Named for his maternal grandfather, Admiral Thornton Jenkins, U.S.N., Thornton Jenkins Hains had a career of indefinite length as a working seaman and was licensed in both England and the United States as a navigator for large oceangoing vessels. He began a writing career in 1889 and had gained enough fame as a sea-writer to be the subject of a front-page article in the New York Times<\/em> on 16 December 1903. Titled “Author Rescued at Sea,” the article recounts the sinking of Hains’ yacht Edna<\/em> in a hurricane that struck on his voyage from North Carolina to the Bahamas. By then he had published at least two collections of sea stories, Tales of the South Seas<\/em> (1894) and The Wind-Jammers<\/em> (1899), and one novel, The Wreck of the<\/em> Conemaugh (1899). Of his several other books, three are especially notable: a collection of stories mostly of sea animals, The Strife of the Sea<\/em> (1903), and the novels The Black Barque<\/em> (1905) and The Voyage of the Arrow<\/em> (1906).<\/p>\n

Tales of the South Seas<\/em>, published in the same year as Jack London’s Call of the Wild<\/em>, presents a unique, Darwinian view of sea life. The handsome, illustrated volume attracted London’s attention, as did The Voyage of the Arrow<\/em>, which features an interesting, self-conscious narrator and Hains’ typically engaging, plain style. The Black Barque<\/em> is a novel about the slave trade, presented in a balanced, realistic way. The title story of a later collection, The White Ghost of Disaster<\/em> (published in 1912, the year of the Titanic<\/em> disaster, under the name “Captain Mayn Clew Garnett”) is a memorable tale of a captain who kills himself after sinking his speeding passenger liner in a collision with an iceberg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Captain Gore’s Courtship: his Narrative of the Affair of the Clipper “Conemaugh” and loss of the “Countess of Warwick,” as Set Down by his Friend and Counsel <\/em> (1896)<\/p>\n

HathiTrust<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wreck of the Conemaugh<\/em> (1899)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

The Wind-Jammers<\/em> (1899)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship “Pirate”<\/em> (1900)<\/p>\n

Project Gutenberg<\/a><\/p>\n

The Strife of the Sea<\/em> (1903)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

The Black Barque: a tale of the pirate slave-ship Gentle Hand<\/em> (1905)<\/p>\n

HathiTrust<\/a><\/p>\n

The Cruise of the Petrel: a Story of 1812<\/em> (1906)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

The Voyage of the Arrow: to the China Seas; its Adventures and Perils, including its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as set down by William Gore, Chief Mate<\/em> (1906)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

Bahama Bill: Mate of the Wrecking Sloop “Sea-Horse”<\/em> (1908)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

The Chief Mate’s Yarns: Twelve Tales of the Sea<\/em> (1912)<\/p>\n

Google Book Search<\/a><\/p>\n

The White Ghost of Disaster<\/em> (1912)<\/p>\n

Archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n

keywords: white, male<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Bert Bender (2000) [HAINS, THORNTON JENKINS], “CAPTAIN MAYN CLEW GARNETT” (1866-1953). Named for his maternal grandfather, Admiral Thornton Jenkins, U.S.N., Thornton Jenkins Hains had a career of indefinite length as a working seaman and was licensed in both England Continue reading &<\/span> text links<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25921],"tags":[53755,53756,53774,53761,53784],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","tag-19th-century","tag-20th-century","tag-exploration","tag-fiction","tag-short-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6336,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/6336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}