I'm alone

• Main Author: Randell, Jack, 1879-
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Jonathan Cape 1930
• Subjects: Randell; Jack; 1879-; I'm alone (Schooner); Seafaring life; South African War; 1899-1902 > Personal narratives; Smuggling; Newfoundland; Newfoundland studies
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns/id/70871

Captain Jack Randell was born in Port Rexton, Newfoundland in 1879, and began a life at sea at a young age; this book is an autobiographical account of that life. The first two chapters cover his time at sea as a young man, and then chapters three through eleven recount his military experience, for which Randell was highly decorated. The rest of the book focuses on the captain's experience as a rum runner, including the international incident of the sinking of the ship for which the book is titled. -- Publisher's postscript gives the current state of the arbitration between the United States and Canada with regards to the sinking of the I'm Alone at the time of publication; a further handwritten note at the end of the postscript (p. 287) gives the amounts eventually awarded in the matter including the amounts given to Captain Randell and the 7 members of the crew who had been wrongly arrested with him.