In this novel however the battleship Radzeer disappears again, along with the ship called André de Rémieux, which was carrying peculiar ‘holiday-makers’ to an island in the South Pacific Ocean. Well, Dirty Fred was not called the ‘prime minister of the oceans’ for nothing – whilst out on peaceful whaling, he spared some time to ‘track down’ the two ships. Smiley Jimmy and the Bluebeard receive a prominent part in the action, this time making a name for themselves aboard the ship called the Blind Dad.