Jim and the fleeing crewmembers believe that the Patna will sink that night, but it doesn’t, and the passengers on board are eventually rescued by some French ships.
But before Jim knows it, he finds himself almost unconsciously jumping into the lifeboat, right next to the other deserting crew members. Jim feels that these men are cowardly and wants to use the crisis to prove himself as a hero. The skipper and two engineers decide to save themselves by lowering a lifeboat. The damage is extensive, and Jim and the skipper believe the ship will soon sink. One night, the Patna hits an unseen object in the water. There’s nothing remarkable about Jim’s early life or physical appearance, but he has big dreams of one day going on adventures and making a name for himself, so he starts training to become a sailor.Įventually, Jim becomes the first mate of a ship called the Patna, a steamer that has only a few crew members but 800 passengers who are all religious pilgrims, mostly from poor villages. Near the end of the nineteenth century, Jim is a young man in his mid-twenties who is the son of a relatively well-off parson in Britain.
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