Extract (Overdue and Missing) Overdue and Missing
in Yachting (New York, NY, USA) Vol. 208, No. 5 (Dec 2010): (Page imagery not yet available)
- First extracted as "Missing"! The Passing of a Ship at Sea in The Daily Mail (London, UK) (Mar 8, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as "Missing!" in The Examiner (Launceton, Australia) (Apr 16, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as Missing! in The Evening Post (Wellington, New Zealand) (Jun 9, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as Missing! in The Southland Times (Invercargill, New Zealand) (Sep 25, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as Overdue in The Daily Mail (London, UK) (Nov 16, 1904)
- Subsequently serialized as Overdue in The Ogden Standard (Ogden, UT, USA) (Dec 3, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as Overdue in The Examiner (Launceton, Australia) (Dec 29, 1904)
- Subsequently extracted as Overdue in The Valentine Democrat (Valentine, NE, USA) (May 25, 1905)
- Collected as Overdue and Missing in The Mirror of the Sea (1906)
- Subsequently serialized as "Overdue" and "Missing" in Eigo Seinen (Tokyo, Japan) (Oct 1, 1928 — Nov 15, 1928)
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p.66. Excerpt reads: "Only a very few days more - appallingly few to the hearts which had set themselves bravely to hope against hope - three weeks, a month later, perhaps, the name of ships under the blight of the Overdue heading shall appear again in the column of Shipping Intelligence, but under the final declaration of Missing. Perhaps the men she carried had asked her to do too much, had stretched beyond breaking-point the enduring faithfulness which seems wrought and hammered into that assemblage of iron ribs and plating, of wood and steel and canvas and wire, which goes to the making of a ship - a complete creation endowed with character, individuality, qualities and defects, by men whose hands launch her upon the water, and that other men shall learn to know with an intimacy surpassing the intimacy of man with man, to love with a love nearly as great as that of man for woman, and often as blind in its infatuated disregard of defects."