The SS Star of the North was a large schooner-rigged cargo steamer, strongly built of iron in watertight compartments, and of nearly two thousand horsepower, but working up, under pressure, of nearly half as much again on a pinch, having been originally intended for the passenger trade. She belonged to one of the great ocean lines that run between Liverpool and New York. Her voyage seemed normal enough until an old style ship in distress is spotted and vanishes.... Could it be the Flying Dutchman? The ghost ship of myth and legends that can never make port, and is doomed to sail the oceans forever.
