Captain Davey Morcombe

Captain of a company that works the coast and the sea, in a fast cutter. It fights wreckers, escorts cargoes and recovers what the sea has taken.

Morcombe was a smuggler who went straight when his brother was killed by wreckers. He used his smuggler's knowledge of the coast to hunt them down, and found the harbour courts would pay.

The Salt Wolf has fought wreckers, recovered cargoes, escorted packets and once fought a thing in the shallows that took three men. Morcombe's cutter is the fastest on the coast.

This year the company is escorting a cargo of relics across the Narrow Sea for a cathedral. Morcombe is worried about the relics and the weather.

In person

39. Lean and tanned, with a weathered face, a gold earring, untidy black hair and quick dark eyes. He wears a short blue sea coat over a leather jack, a cutlass and two pistols.