The Nautilus easily avoided the Money breakers to port and the Victoria reefs to starboard, positioned at longitude 130 degrees on the tenth parallel, which we went along rigorously.
Hiccup took his hands off the rudder in surprise, and at the same moment, Sparrowhawk rammed into the port side of The Hopeful Puffin, denting her severely.
During the day she kept along the coast, where the currents were favourable;the coast, irregular in profile, and visible sometimes across the clearings, was at most five miles distant.
Then the sound of rumbling thunder reached the watchers on the shore, as cargo, ballast, ammunition and 400 people went sliding and crashing down to the port side of the steeply listing ship.