The Strange Adventures Of Eric Blackburn — Harry Collingwood

                                                                                            FANTASTIC JOURNEY TO TREASURE

Horror chilled me to the marrow; for never before, I verily believe, had mortal eyes beheld so awful an apparition. Broad over the port bow, at an elevation of some forty degrees above the horizon, I beheld a great white-hot flaming mass, emitting a long trail of brilliant sparks, coming straight for the ship. . . .

That's the way it started for Fourth Officer Eric Blackburn -- with a meteor slamming through the engine room of the S.S. Saturn.

Sole survivor of this astonishing catastrophe in the South Seas, Eric is picked up by a sailing vessel with a crew in search of treasure. Eric becomes skipper -- but the ship is wrecked on an uncharted island.