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Stephen Crane "The Open Boat" by Wolverine_13
Based on his real shipwreck experience off the coast of Daytona Beach, Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage, wrote his famous short story, "The Open Boat." On the steamship Commodore, Crane was attempting to run arms to Cuba for an insurrection against the Spanish. When the ship capsized due to fierce weather, he was forced into a dinghy. It was the Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse that guided Crane to shore after 30 hours at sea and was the model for the fictional lighthouse described in "The Open Boat."
