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Horror Stories | Blow Up with the Ship | Best story read aloud Blow Up with the Ship is a gripping story of robbery and crime on the high seas. It is narrated in the first person and the story has all the ingredients of a thriller. The backdrop is provided by a battle for independence in one of the Spanish colonies in South America. The action in the story takes place during a sea journey in a ship significantly named ‘The Good Intent’. The narrator was sent to sea when still a boy and became a mate at the age of twenty-five. The incident took place in the year 1818, when the Spanish colonies in South America were fighting for independence. There was plenty of bloodshed between the government of Spain and the rebels under General Bolivar. This early work by Wilkie Collins was originally published in 1859. Born in Marylebone, London in 1824, Collins' family enrolled him at the Maida Hill Academy in 1835, but then took him to France and Italy with them between 1836 and 1838. Returning to England, C
