The rescue

"The Rescue" (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's novels contained in "The Lingard Trilogy", based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after "Almayer's Folly" (1895) and "An Outcast of the Islands" (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The protagonist, Captain Tom Lingard, falls in love with a married woman whose yacht he saves from foundering.