The Girl Stowaway's Heroism - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

A seafaring man in moderate circumstances has left his daughter with his widowed sister and her crippled son at their modest home in Liverpool, England, while he goes to look after some property he had acquired in the Bermudas. He is taken...See moreA seafaring man in moderate circumstances has left his daughter with his widowed sister and her crippled son at their modest home in Liverpool, England, while he goes to look after some property he had acquired in the Bermudas. He is taken suddenly and seriously ill aboard ship and a wireless message to this effect is sent from the S.S. Trent to his daughter. The aunt has not sufficient funds to pay for her niece's passage and the daughter therefore resolves to disguise herself as a boy, in one of her cousin's suits of clothes and steal her way aboard a schooner about to sail for Bermuda. She gets aboard the vessel and secretes herself in the lifeboat, where she is discovered when out at sea, by Dick Dead Eye, a villainous sailor. The Captain orders the flogging usually meted out to a stowaway, but the mate, a sympathetic, manly fellow, is struck by the boy's appearance and innocent manner and refuses to apply the lash. The Captain administers the Cat and in her struggle the sex of the stowaway is revealed. During the voyage the stowaway jumps overboard and saves the mate's life, which has been placed in jeopardy by the vengeful Dick Dead Eye. During the long trip to Bermuda the mate and the girl stowaway are constant companions, and love finally wins its way and the mate lays his heart and fortune at her feet. Arriving at Bermuda the lovers find the girl's father at the Seaman's Hospital, almost recovered and return with him to England by the first steamer where the young couple are happily married at an early date. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less