Project Gutenberg 2015-05-14 Public domain in the USA. 150 Goldfrap, John Henry 1879 1917 Lawton, Captain Wilbur Deering, Fremont B. Payson, Howard Lawton, Wilbur Dexter J. Forrester West, Marvin Forrester, Dexter J. Wrenn, Charles L. (Charles Lewis) 1880 1952 The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Atlantic Produced by Stephen Hutcheson, Rick Morris and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Ocean Wireless Boys on the Atlantic" by Captain Wilbur Lawton is a young adult adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows Jack Ready, a determined sixteen-year-old who aspires to be a wireless operator. Faced with numerous rejections, Jack's life takes a thrilling turn when he bravely rescues a drowning girl, which leads to a chance at his dream job aboard a cargo ship. At the start of the novel, readers are introduced to Jack, who is disheartened by his unsuccessful search for work in wireless telegraphy. As he walks near the docks, an emergency arises when a young girl falls overboard, prompting Jack to dive in and rescue her. This heroic act earns him the admiration of the girl's influential father, ship-owner Jacob Jukes. However, Jack chooses to remain humble and declines a reward, believing his actions were simply the right thing to do. Shortly after, he learns that he has secured a position on the Titan Line's tanker, the Ajax, beginning his journey in the thrilling world of maritime adventures and challenges across the Atlantic. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 82.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Telegraph, Wireless -- Juvenile fiction Tankers -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Adventure Category: Novels 369466 2025-07-19T14:00:33.909566 text/html 348685 2024-10-24T17:25:02 text/html 747511 2025-07-19T14:00:40.335549 application/epub+zip 751377 2025-07-19T14:00:35.293558 application/epub+zip 185228 2025-07-19T14:00:34.612607 application/epub+zip 879169 2025-07-19T14:00:44.531548 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 832680 2025-07-19T14:00:39.597578 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 267623 2022-09-22T08:01:36.420976 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 299114 2025-07-19T14:00:32.743634 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 279282 2024-10-24T17:25:02 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17898 2025-07-19T14:00:44.676515 application/rdf+xml 23617 2025-07-19T14:00:34.700566 image/jpeg 3606 2025-07-19T14:00:34.657545 image/jpeg 714409 2025-07-19T14:00:33.970608 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia