The Wreck of the Mary Deare

The steamship ''Mary Deare'' is found adrift at sea by Marine salvage, John Sands. Sands boards it hoping to claim it for salvage, but finds the first officer, Gideon Patch, still aboard and trying to run the ship on his own. Patch has stayed on the ship in order to prove that it was sabotaged to collect insurance on cargo that had secretly been off-loaded at Rangoon.