This series is available features digital mp3 episodes archived on properly formatted flash drive so that each may be played using automobile entertainment systems equipped with a USB port (see photo), a computer, or the portable Affordable OTR L-088 USB Flash Drive Player (photo).
This may be the best old-time radio series at serious fans of old-time radio have never heard. It featured Elliott Lewis as Philip Carney, master of the Scarlet Queen, with Ed Max as the first mate, Red Gallagher. The writing was superb and performances were equally excellent. Each episode opens with an entry from the ship's log, such as: "Log entry, the ketch Scarlet Queen, Philip Carney, master. Position -- three degrees, seven minutes north, 104 degrees, two minutes east. Wind, fresh to moderate; sky, fair..." with a similar closing: "Ship secured for the night. Signed, Philip Carney, master." Arriving at an exotic port of call, the captain and first mate would go ashore and immediately run into trouble with local authorities, agents of rival merchants, or desperate women in need of rescue. After some investigation and at least one good fight they would solve the problem, get back on the ship and sail away, Carney and Gallagher sharing a laugh and a drink at the wheel before the captain's closing log entry.
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