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The Ship That Found Herself

Rudyard Kipling

First published September 1898
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Anthropomorphic concerning the parts of a cargo ship: "During the storm which the ship encounters [on its first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean], the various parts of the ship, each of which has a distinct personality, talk and argue with each other until, at the end of the voyage, they have learnt to co-operate effectively." --Wikipedia

    Published December 1895 in The Idler Published March 1896 in McClure's 6.4, p328-36(?) --FictionMags Index

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
September 1898 The Day's Work Macmillan and Co. Collection 73
October 1992 Cover John Brunner Presents Kipling's Science Fiction Tor Collection 14
May 1994 Cover The Science Fiction Stories of Rudyard Kipling Citadel Twilight Collection 14
June 1998 Cover Kipling's Science Fiction G. K. Hall & Co. Collection 38
March 2001 The Day's Work Project Gutenberg Collection |3