WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.680 All aboard for the transcribed premiere production, the crews of the Paul Parrot and the thrilling 00:09.680 --> 00:11.800 adventures of whaling days. 00:11.800 --> 00:15.360 The trim whaling ship, the Paul Parrot, has set sail from New Bedford in the spring of 00:15.360 --> 00:20.680 1858 with a fine crew and the most unusual company of people aboard. 00:20.680 --> 00:24.200 Although she sailed with the announced purpose of hunting whales and collecting a cargo of 00:24.200 --> 00:28.440 whale oil, the true reason for the crews of the Paul Parrot is to seek a valuable mineral 00:28.440 --> 00:30.600 treasure on an unknown island. 00:30.600 --> 00:34.520 Captain Dalton, his best friend and first mate George Wainwright, the one-legged sailor 00:34.520 --> 00:38.640 Dickon, the cabin boy Johnny Robbins, and little Sue Grange, sister of the ship's owner, 00:38.640 --> 00:42.760 have succeeded in uncovering the secret which was known only to the owner of the ship, Ezra 00:42.760 --> 00:43.760 Grange. 00:43.760 --> 00:47.280 He is also on the voyage, supposedly as a passenger, but really to find the treasure 00:47.280 --> 00:48.280 he seeks. 00:48.280 --> 00:53.120 After a bold attempt by a Spaniard named Altesti and his partner in crime, Red Mulhollay, to 00:53.120 --> 00:57.880 get control of the ship and secure the treasure for themselves has been foiled by the bravery 00:57.880 --> 01:02.960 and quick thinking of our friends, the troublemakers have been thrown in irons down in the holes. 01:02.960 --> 01:06.480 Since Johnny Robbins' father was one of the original discoverers of the rich mineral deposit 01:06.480 --> 01:11.400 on the secret island, Ezra Grange has promised him half the treasure when it's found. 01:11.400 --> 01:15.280 Just at this point, with the villain safely disposed of and the ship well on its way to 01:15.280 --> 01:18.240 the island, a cry comes from the masthead. 01:18.240 --> 01:22.280 The ship blows. 01:22.280 --> 01:25.720 Blow me down, Mr. Grange, a whale sighted and so soon out. 01:25.720 --> 01:29.520 But with a new purpose in mind, the seeking for treasure, perhaps we might as well not 01:29.520 --> 01:30.520 waste time whaling. 01:30.520 --> 01:34.760 Oh, no, Captain Dalton, even though we are first on the mission of this map, Grange and 01:34.760 --> 01:37.120 sons are still in the whale oil business, you know. 01:37.120 --> 01:39.400 We'll not pass up such a chance when it's right before us. 01:39.400 --> 01:40.680 Aye, aye, sir, right you are. 01:40.680 --> 01:43.360 We'll make short work of this lover in no time at all. 01:43.360 --> 01:45.740 Wainwright, you and Dick can go on deck. 01:45.740 --> 01:47.240 Give orders to make ready for the catch. 01:47.240 --> 01:48.240 Aye, aye, sir. 01:48.240 --> 01:51.400 Oh, Johnny, we'll see our first whale called. 01:51.400 --> 01:53.400 Yeah, I wish I could go along. 01:53.400 --> 01:54.400 Stand by. 01:54.400 --> 01:57.400 All hands on deck, man the whale boats. 01:57.400 --> 01:59.400 Mr. Biscara, make ready for the catch. 01:59.400 --> 02:02.400 Mr. Jowett, make ready to lure away. 02:02.400 --> 02:05.400 There she blows off the starboard bow. 02:05.400 --> 02:08.400 Vast, it's a mammoth one for fair, a giant blue whale. 02:08.400 --> 02:10.400 He'll be hard to take, but worth the effort. 02:10.400 --> 02:11.400 I'll lay you to that. 02:11.400 --> 02:15.400 Whilst ready, sir, Mr. Jowett's boat will make the catch with Mr. Biscara's boat standing 02:15.400 --> 02:16.400 by if assistance is needed. 02:16.400 --> 02:19.400 He'll likely need it from that whale size. 02:19.400 --> 02:20.400 Drop anchor. 02:20.400 --> 02:24.400 Sheave her, too. 02:24.400 --> 02:29.400 She's up, too, Captain. 02:29.400 --> 02:32.400 There she blows. 02:32.400 --> 02:41.400 She's the biggest lover I've laid my peepers on. 02:41.400 --> 02:44.400 Look, here comes old Dickon with our mascot Polly on his shoulder. 02:44.400 --> 02:46.400 He looks terribly excited, Johnny. 02:46.400 --> 02:48.400 Captain, Captain, Captain Dalton, shiver me. 02:48.400 --> 02:49.400 Tim is Captain. 02:49.400 --> 02:50.400 He's Tim. 02:50.400 --> 02:51.400 He's too, Dickon. 02:51.400 --> 02:52.400 What are you bawling about? 02:52.400 --> 02:53.400 Oh, Captain, to me die on day I'd know him. 02:53.400 --> 02:55.400 It's the very one, the very one, Captain. 02:55.400 --> 02:57.400 Vabst, Dickon, what's all this blabbing about? 02:57.400 --> 02:58.400 Speak up, man. 02:58.400 --> 03:02.400 Well, that whale, Roril, out there, is the same blue whale that caught me legs on 15 years 03:02.400 --> 03:03.400 ago. 03:03.400 --> 03:06.400 I've seen him since many a day, and he's a monster to make fast to. 03:06.400 --> 03:09.400 But it's the same one, Captain, you may lay to that. 03:09.400 --> 03:13.400 But Dickon, how could you be sure that that's the same whale when he's so far from the ship? 03:13.400 --> 03:16.400 Oh, lass, I could never mistake that whale. 03:16.400 --> 03:18.400 Never tell me die on day. 03:18.400 --> 03:20.400 Captain, I want to go out after that whale. 03:20.400 --> 03:22.400 I almost swore we met again. 03:22.400 --> 03:24.400 It would be him or me, sir. 03:24.400 --> 03:25.400 Blow me down, Dickon. 03:25.400 --> 03:26.400 You want to go in one of the boats? 03:26.400 --> 03:27.400 Aye, aye, I do, sir. 03:27.400 --> 03:30.400 I'm still as good a harpoon arm as ever. 03:30.400 --> 03:33.400 Lash me to a yard arm if I don't sink the aisle deep into its carcass. 03:33.400 --> 03:36.400 Dickon, mate, I know how close this is to your heart. 03:36.400 --> 03:40.400 I'm willing to give you a chance, but if harm befall you, I'd never forgive myself. 03:40.400 --> 03:43.400 Oh, Captain, I'll take the risk. 03:43.400 --> 03:45.400 Please let me go, sir. 03:45.400 --> 03:46.400 I'll do it. 03:46.400 --> 03:49.400 Mr. Jowett, Dickon will go with you as boat steerer. 03:49.400 --> 03:50.400 Aye, aye, sir. 03:50.400 --> 03:51.400 Good luck, Dickon. 03:51.400 --> 03:52.400 Oh, but do be careful. 03:52.400 --> 03:53.400 Oh, heaven bless you. 03:53.400 --> 03:54.400 I'll not fail. 03:54.400 --> 03:55.400 Avast, mates. 03:55.400 --> 03:56.400 Avast, mate. 03:56.400 --> 03:57.400 I'm cabin. 03:57.400 --> 04:02.400 We'll reach and blow until about, but we'll get him. 04:02.400 --> 04:04.400 Swing the maniard. 04:04.400 --> 04:06.400 Float away. 04:13.400 --> 04:15.400 Good luck, men. 04:15.400 --> 04:17.400 Follow closer stern, Buscara. 04:17.400 --> 04:18.400 Aye, aye, Captain. 04:18.400 --> 04:21.400 Jowett's boat may have to weather heavy swells near that monster. 04:21.400 --> 04:22.400 There they go. 04:22.400 --> 04:24.400 I hope Dickon catches his whale. 04:24.400 --> 04:25.400 Aye, lad, there they go. 04:25.400 --> 04:27.400 Poor old Dickon has waited many a year for this moment. 04:27.400 --> 04:28.400 He can't fail. 04:28.400 --> 04:31.400 Batten down the hatch, but my heart is pumping as if I were out there with him. 04:31.400 --> 04:34.400 Look at that boat came over the water. 04:34.400 --> 04:36.400 You know, it seems funny, Captain Dalton. 04:36.400 --> 04:40.400 You said Dickon would take the place of the boat steerer, and yet he's not steering. 04:40.400 --> 04:43.400 He's standing up in the bow of the boat with the harpoon. 04:43.400 --> 04:45.400 That's right, the second mate, Mr. Jowett, is steering. 04:45.400 --> 04:48.400 But after Dickon makes his strike and makes fast to the whale, 04:48.400 --> 04:51.400 then he and Jowett will change places, and he'll truly be the boat steerer. 04:51.400 --> 04:53.400 It seems to be a strange custom, I know, 04:53.400 --> 04:57.400 but it's always been so in wailing as far back as any man can remember. 04:57.400 --> 04:59.400 They're creeping up on the whale. 04:59.400 --> 05:01.400 Gee, he's really a big one, all right. 05:01.400 --> 05:02.400 He surely is. 05:02.400 --> 05:05.400 I never dreamed anything could be so big. 05:05.400 --> 05:07.400 They can make no more noise than they must, youngins. 05:07.400 --> 05:11.400 Because you see, a whale's eyes are poor, but his ears are keen. 05:11.400 --> 05:14.400 And if he hears the slightest noise that's irregular, he'll sound. 05:14.400 --> 05:15.400 Sound? 05:15.400 --> 05:16.400 Yes, sound. Dive under. 05:16.400 --> 05:18.400 And once he's under, there's no telling where he'll go. 05:18.400 --> 05:20.400 He may breach miles away. 05:20.400 --> 05:22.400 Breach? What's that, Captain Dalton? 05:22.400 --> 05:24.400 By breach, I mean, he comes up to the surface again. 05:24.400 --> 05:26.400 Oh, look, they're almost to him. 05:26.400 --> 05:28.400 Dickon is standing up with the harpoon in his hand. 05:28.400 --> 05:30.400 Yes, he's about to cast the iron. 05:30.400 --> 05:33.400 May the gods of the sea smile on him and bring him luck. 05:33.400 --> 05:35.400 Look, the whale's turning about. 05:35.400 --> 05:36.400 Low me down, he sees him. 05:36.400 --> 05:38.400 Oh, my, he's going for the boat. 05:38.400 --> 05:40.400 There goes Dickon's arm. 05:40.400 --> 05:42.400 He's cast. He's struck. 05:42.400 --> 05:45.400 Dickon got him all right, but now there'll be the dickens to pay any me later that. 05:45.400 --> 05:47.400 But the whale's turning around. 05:47.400 --> 05:49.400 He can't bite anything with his back turned. 05:49.400 --> 05:50.400 Aye, but there's the danger. 05:50.400 --> 05:53.400 A blue whale, though he's the biggest of all, has no teeth. 05:53.400 --> 05:54.400 His mouth is full of baleen. 05:54.400 --> 05:56.400 Baleen? What in the world is that? 05:56.400 --> 05:58.400 Baleen is really the name for whale bone. 05:58.400 --> 06:01.400 It grows in plates in the whale's mouth from two to twelve feet in length. 06:01.400 --> 06:04.400 Well, if they're not teeth, why are they in the whale's mouth? 06:04.400 --> 06:06.400 To collect food and keep it in his mouth. 06:06.400 --> 06:07.400 But it's not his mouth I'm worrying about. 06:07.400 --> 06:11.400 It's the flukes of his tail, the most dangerous things in all the seven seas. 06:11.400 --> 06:14.400 Flukes are the points of the tail, aren't they, Captain Dalton? 06:14.400 --> 06:16.400 That's right, Johnny. Those enormous points, those are the flukes. 06:16.400 --> 06:18.400 The whale is raising his tail out of the water. 06:18.400 --> 06:20.400 He's bringing it down on the boat. 06:20.400 --> 06:23.400 Oh, shh. 06:26.400 --> 06:27.400 Suffer and whitefish. 06:27.400 --> 06:31.400 Both the boats are matchwood, and the men are all out in the sea. 06:31.400 --> 06:33.400 Wainwright, make my boat ready and lower away. 06:33.400 --> 06:36.400 Aye, aye, Captain. But, by the host of it, I'm going along. 06:36.400 --> 06:38.400 Well, very well, George. In my boat. 06:38.400 --> 06:43.400 That's it, mate. Swing the man yard. Lower away. 06:47.400 --> 06:49.400 Oh, do be careful, Captain. 06:49.400 --> 06:52.400 Leave Mr. Wainwright. Don't let anything happen to him. 06:52.400 --> 06:54.400 We'll be careful, Sue. We... 06:54.400 --> 06:56.400 Johnny, what are you doing in this boat? 06:56.400 --> 07:00.400 I had to go along, Captain. I'm small and quick. I can help. 07:00.400 --> 07:03.400 Well, blow me down, Roy. We're lowered now. There's no time to put the ladder board. 07:03.400 --> 07:06.400 Oh, Johnny, you shouldn't have done this. But it's too late to do anything now. 07:06.400 --> 07:08.400 Keep blowing out of the way. Ready, men. 07:08.400 --> 07:11.400 Here, men. I'll take the iron. You take a place at the stork oar. 07:11.400 --> 07:15.400 I've got to make this like myself. On, men, on. 07:17.400 --> 07:21.400 James, look. The men out there in the sea are almost drowning. 07:21.400 --> 07:24.400 That whale's turning up the water so. 07:25.400 --> 07:27.400 There's Dickon. He's swimming for dear life. 07:27.400 --> 07:29.400 Easy, men, easy. We're almost on it. 07:29.400 --> 07:32.400 Wainwright, I'm going to catch the iron. Get ready to change places with me. 07:32.400 --> 07:33.400 Aye, aye, sir. 07:33.400 --> 07:35.400 Avast. There he freaks us right ahead. 07:35.400 --> 07:38.400 Boil me as blubbery. He looks like a man of war. 07:38.400 --> 07:40.400 And still see Dickon's iron in him. 07:40.400 --> 07:43.400 It was a good strike. But this must be a better or we're all lost. 07:43.400 --> 07:45.400 We're on him, Roy. Give it to him. 07:45.400 --> 07:47.400 Here it is, you monster. 07:47.400 --> 07:48.400 Hit! 07:48.400 --> 07:51.400 James, George, James, take the line. 07:51.400 --> 07:53.400 Here's the steering oar. 07:53.400 --> 07:55.400 He'll rope you alive, but keep fast to him. 07:55.400 --> 07:56.400 Stay out of the way of his fluke. 07:56.400 --> 07:58.400 He's raising his tail again. 07:58.400 --> 08:02.400 The board man is going to hit himself on it. 08:03.400 --> 08:05.400 Look, the boat's handful of water. 08:05.400 --> 08:07.400 The boat won't be able to sail afloat. He missed us. 08:07.400 --> 08:09.400 Don't let her catch the iron. He's shredded. 08:09.400 --> 08:12.400 He's going to ram us. The front men's be alive. 08:15.400 --> 08:17.400 James, help me. 08:17.400 --> 08:19.400 Blow me down. He's turning again. 08:19.400 --> 08:22.400 Give him another iron, Wainwright. Aye, aye, sir. 08:22.400 --> 08:25.400 There. That's it. He's overrun. He's overrun. 08:25.400 --> 08:28.400 Hold on, hold on. Keep it locked. 08:28.400 --> 08:29.400 We're closing in on him. 08:29.400 --> 08:31.400 Make ready to give him the lance, George. 08:31.400 --> 08:33.400 Look, look, there's Dickens. 08:33.400 --> 08:36.400 He's alongside the whale. He's hanging on to his fluke. 08:36.400 --> 08:38.400 Dickens, Dickens, don't be a fool. You'll be killed by those flukes. 08:38.400 --> 08:40.400 He's climbing up on the whale's back. 08:40.400 --> 08:42.400 What has he got in his hand? 08:42.400 --> 08:44.400 Stratten down by a hatch, he's got a lance. 08:44.400 --> 08:46.400 He's crawling over to one side of the whale. 08:46.400 --> 08:48.400 If that monster sounds now, old Dickens is lost. 08:48.400 --> 08:50.400 There goes Dickens' arm. He's sinking the lance. 08:50.400 --> 08:52.400 Watch out, man, the whale's sounding. 08:52.400 --> 08:56.400 Roar, roar, roar. 08:57.400 --> 09:01.400 It's all over, man. 09:01.400 --> 09:04.400 He's done it. Old Dickens' done it. 09:04.400 --> 09:06.400 That flow of the lance finished him. 09:06.400 --> 09:08.400 Good old Dickens. He got his way. 09:08.400 --> 09:12.400 Get out, get out. It's all over. 09:12.400 --> 09:15.400 There the monster rolls over on his back. 09:15.400 --> 09:19.400 Gee, gee, I was never so excited in all my life. 09:19.400 --> 09:21.400 Come on, man, we've got to pick up the men. 09:21.400 --> 09:24.400 We've got to get the gill up side of the water out of the boat. 09:24.400 --> 09:27.400 We've almost been swamped. Captain, there's Dickens. 09:27.400 --> 09:29.400 Dickens, Dickens, are you safe? 09:29.400 --> 09:31.400 Let the handmaids look right there. 09:31.400 --> 09:33.400 Help those hands to stop it. 09:33.400 --> 09:35.400 I got it, Captain. 09:35.400 --> 09:37.400 Spin out, I got it. 09:37.400 --> 09:39.400 Help him up, man. Easy there. 09:39.400 --> 09:41.400 Are you sound, Dickens? Are you all right? 09:41.400 --> 09:45.400 I saw as a boy a clam, Captain, but I done it. I done it. 09:45.400 --> 09:48.400 Nobody can say I ain't even up to score. 09:48.400 --> 09:50.400 Here, Dickens, sit over here. 09:50.400 --> 09:52.400 Get them men aboard. 09:56.400 --> 09:59.400 Look, Captain, Mr. Nicholson on board is sending us signals 09:59.400 --> 10:01.400 with the colors and the gallons. 10:01.400 --> 10:03.400 He's sending out another boat to wait us and pick it up the men. 10:03.400 --> 10:05.400 Good. Look lively, Mr. Wainwright. 10:05.400 --> 10:07.400 There's Buscara and his boat steerer support. 10:07.400 --> 10:09.400 And there's Jowett. Pick him up. 10:09.400 --> 10:11.400 Here comes Nicholson's extra boat. 10:11.400 --> 10:13.400 I think all hands are accounted for, sir. 10:13.400 --> 10:15.400 A vast let's see. Jowett and Buscara, three hands here. 10:15.400 --> 10:17.400 Two making for Nicholson's boat. 10:17.400 --> 10:19.400 Five still overboard there. 10:19.400 --> 10:21.400 Four. Our boat will still hold a few more hands. 10:21.400 --> 10:23.400 Help those men astern over the gommel. 10:23.400 --> 10:25.400 Easy there. Easy. 10:25.400 --> 10:29.400 Well, Dickens, it was a hard battle, but you've a stout heart. 10:29.400 --> 10:31.400 Man and boy, I've sailed the sea many years, 10:31.400 --> 10:34.400 and I've never met with a braver seaman, and you may later that. 10:34.400 --> 10:36.400 Thank you, Captain. 10:36.400 --> 10:38.400 You don't know what this day has meant to me. 10:38.400 --> 10:40.400 I've evened up the Blomans' score. 10:40.400 --> 10:44.400 That great blue whale's floats broke me legs on 15 years' back. 10:44.400 --> 10:46.400 And that's how I come to Loser, General. 10:46.400 --> 10:50.400 And now there the beast rolls, dead as a scutterbutt. 10:50.400 --> 10:53.400 And it was your thrust with the lance when you were on the whale's back 10:53.400 --> 10:55.400 that did it, Dickens. 10:55.400 --> 10:58.400 Aye, lad. It's more than a fair exchange as I see it. 10:58.400 --> 11:00.400 I'm content now. 11:00.400 --> 11:03.400 Look, Captain, there's some more signals up at the main, miss. 11:03.400 --> 11:05.400 Oh, they are. It's... 11:05.400 --> 11:07.400 Bloomy-dulmy sighted land. 11:07.400 --> 11:09.400 Land, sir, in these seas? 11:09.400 --> 11:11.400 I know no land here about. 11:11.400 --> 11:14.400 A vast. The signals say land three points off the well above. 11:14.400 --> 11:16.400 I can understand raisin land in this... 11:16.400 --> 11:18.400 Look, can you sight something there? 11:18.400 --> 11:20.400 Why, it looks like smoke. 11:20.400 --> 11:22.400 Smoke? Aye, lad, you're right. 11:22.400 --> 11:24.400 But it's a lot of smoke for a fire. 11:24.400 --> 11:26.400 Well, shiver me timber, sir, if I may speak me mind. 11:26.400 --> 11:29.400 It looks like smoke from a volcano to me. 11:29.400 --> 11:31.400 A volcano? 11:31.400 --> 11:33.400 Why, the secret island we're sailing to has a volcano on it. 11:33.400 --> 11:36.400 Ahoy, lad, that's the ticket. That's it. You may later that. 11:36.400 --> 11:38.400 They've sighted our treasure island. 11:38.400 --> 11:40.400 Our cruise has reached its mark. 11:40.400 --> 11:43.400 Land, the secret island that bears the wealth of minerals 11:43.400 --> 11:45.400 that the Marines has been heading for. 11:45.400 --> 11:47.400 Dickon has realized his life's ambition 11:47.400 --> 11:49.400 by killing the giant whale that once cost him his leg. 11:49.400 --> 11:52.400 But what lies ahead on this mysterious island? 11:52.400 --> 11:54.400 Will our friends have trouble ashore? 11:54.400 --> 11:56.400 Are the two troublemakers imprisoned in the hold 11:56.400 --> 11:58.400 of the Paul Parrot likely to start any more villainy? 11:58.400 --> 12:00.400 Only the further transcribed adventures 12:00.400 --> 12:03.400 of the crews of the Paul Parrot will tell. 12:03.400 --> 12:06.400 Be sure to follow Captain Dalton, Sue, Johnny, and their friends 12:06.400 --> 12:08.400 on the crews of the Paul Parrot. 12:08.400 --> 12:13.400 Your Paul Parrot announcer is Dave Ward.