Dead Man's Chest Dead Man's Chest "Dead Man's Chest" (also known as "Fifteen Men On The Dead Man's Chest" or "Derelict") is a fictional sea song, originally from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel "Treasure Island" (1883). It was expanded in a poem, titled "Derelict" by Young E. Allison, published in the "Louisville Courier-Journal" in 1891. It has since been used in many later works of art in various forms. Stevenson found the name "Dead Man's Chest" among a list of Virgin Island names in a book by Charles Kingsley, possibly in reference to the Dead Chest Island off Peter Island in the British Virgin
Hilda Kay Grant Miss Hilliard persuades one that they are commoner in life… [she] writes a sure sense of atmosphere". "Morgan's Castle" was Grant's last novel, although she published three subsequent works of non-fiction under her own name. "Robert Stevenson, engineer and sea-builder", was a biography of the lighthouse builder and grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson. She received a Canadian Centennial Commission grant to research and write "Samuel Cunard, Pioneer of the Atlantic Steamship", and was a Canada Council Award recipient. She also published short stories and poetry in such magazines as "Maclean's", "Chatelaine" and "Canadian Poetry". A lifelong gardener, even when limited