Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.S. Star of the North, from the deck Dick sees a ghost ship. A large fullrigged ship with white canvas sails all crimson from a last expiring gleam of the sun’s afterglow. The ship’s sails tattered and torn, with the ragged ends blowing out loose from the boltropes in the most untidy fashion, unkempt, uncared for! But when he tries to call this ghostly ship to the attention of the rest of the crew he discoveres that he alone can see it.