title: The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas
author:  Rear Admiral C. H. Layman 
description: Arguing that the most dangerous move in business is the failure to make a move imparts ten core lessons that tell readers to own who they are as a leader define where they want to go and do what it takes to get there
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  # The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter One. The Fleet.
  
  
  Chapter Two. Accidents Afloat and Incidents Ashore.
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter Three. The Skipper Ashore.
  
  
  Chapter Four. Hardships on the Sea.
  
  
  Chapter Five. The Tempter's Victory.
  
  
  Chapter Six. The Power of Sympathy.
  
  
  Chapter Seven. A Rescue.
  
  
  Chapter Eight. Tells of more than one Surprise.
  
  
  Chapter Nine. Beginning of the Good Work.
  
  
  Chapter Ten. The First Fight and Victory.
  
  
  Chapter Eleven. A Consultation, a Feast, and a
  
  
  Plot.
  
  
  Chapter Twelve. The Enterprize fails — remarkably.
  
  
  Chapter Thirteen. The Tide begins to turn, and
  
  
  Death steps in.
  
  
  Chapter Fourteen. The Last.
  
  
  
  
  
  
      Etext from Athelstane.co.uk
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter One. The Fleet.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Manx Bradley was an admiral — “admiral of the fleet” — though it
  
  
  must be admitted that his personal appearance did not