SOURCE: Benfey, Christopher. “Shipwrecks.” Pequod 32 (1991): 134-45.
In the following essay, Benfey traces Crane's interest in shipwrecks, which culminated in his personal experience on the Commodore and his story “The Open Boat.”
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