This story of adventure is of the last days of the cargo sailing schooners that carried freight to all ports of the world. Captain Fickett's son, Ron is swept overboard, to drift ashore on the desolate Outer Banks of North Carolina. The ship is wrecked, later several miles below Cape Hatteras (The Graveyard of the Atlantic). The captain is murdered as he tries to get ashore. Johnny Mapp, one of the many squatters, remnants of Sir Walter Raleigh's Lost Colony, sees the murder. He was worried of b