The Onedin Line
Season 2
James Onedin marries Anne Webster in order to get his hands on a ship. However the marriage turns out to be one of true love. James is ruthless in his attempt to get a shipping line started in Liverpool of the 1860s.
Where to Watch Season 2
14 Episodes
- Yellow Jack
E5Yellow JackA strange and enigmatic woman called Indigo Jones comes onboard the Charlotte Rhodes, with an offer for James Onedin. Her ship, the Samantha, is damaged, anchored off Cork, and she wishes him to bring her home. However, when he enquires about the cargo the ship is carrying, she becomes evasive. When pushed though, she does admit that the ship carried fever. As usual, profit blinds James Onedin, and he agrees to help the ship home, that she may discharge her cargo and return for another shipment without delay. He is also more than interested in how the young lady managed to get shipments of guano out of South America without paying the high export duties. She will not say, of course, but he plans to find out. Anne has already been dismissed from her post at the shop, due to no fault of her own, just that she is a woman, and no-one will work with her as she tries to do a man's job. Her father urges her to go back to James, but she is as stubborn as he, and refuses. James enlists Alber - Survivor
E6SurvivorJames has chartered a tea-clipper, the Osiris, in an attempt to get the first of the new tea crop home before anyone else, and so reap, as ever, a healthy profit. Albert has a new lady in his life, a dancehall singer called Carrie, who sees him as a way to better herself, get some money and start a new life. He is marked in this tryst by the ever-watchful Fogarty, mindful of a chance to blacken Fraser's name and use it against Elizabeth if he should need to, or indeed, the Onedin Line. Or perhaps as leverage when he needs to encourage Fraser to build the Golden Nugget to the shareholders' specifications. At sea, the Osiris comes across a floating lifeboat, the men within it showing little of life, but one still alive. He is an old man, who babbles in his stupor. He is in fact quoting scripture, from Revelations, and the men see it as a bad omen, a warning of dire events to come. When he regains consciousness, the old man gives his name as John Hennessy, mate on a coalship that he - Coffin Ship
E7Coffin ShipThe Charlotte Rhodes is caught in a storm, and Baines recommends they jettison cargo to enable them to outrun the tempest, but James refuses to lose profit, and they have to run against the storm. Back in Liverpool, Baines visits her sister, who was driven out of her home during the Yellow Jack fever. She is now living with her family in much reduced circumstances, and Baines promises to get her out of there. He requests a loan from James, but is turned down, and for once Baines begins to see that all the ill fortune that has befallen him is down to James Onedin and his eternal greed. Another rift is developing in the network that holds James Onedin's world together, and he is coming close to losing one of the only friends he has in the world, and a man upon whom he depends more than he would ever say. Elizabeth goes to visit Carrie, the dancehall singer, but does not tell her that she is Albert's wife. She pretends that she too has been seeing Fraser, but has only just found out tha - 'Frisco Bound
E8'Frisco BoundElizabeth tells Albert she knows of his dalliance with Carrie Harris, and that she has been to see her. As their sniping and arguments escalate, she tells him that she is thinking of leaving him. James is heading for Frisco (San Francisco) by way of the dreaded Horn (Cape Horn), a dangerous passage feared by sailors, and with good cause. But it does afford a much faster transit time to the Americas. Albert decides to go along, to chart out the voyage and see how he would build a steamship to make the trip. The new apprentice turns up, too: the son of the head of the board of enquiry. But he is not at all dressed for the trip, and David Teale obviously has different ideas to James and Baines as to what he will be doing onboard the ship! He is soon disabused of these notions, the top hat and frock coat exchanged for seaman's garb, his pretty hands cut and chapped, the realities of life at sea making themselves known in no uncertain terms! Albert is concerned about the unnecessarily h - Beyond the Upper Sea
E9Beyond the Upper SeaThe Onedins and Albert travel to Turkey, where James is annoyed to find that Albert is about to agree to a ten year contract making steam engines for a local pasha. Albert is even considering living with Leyla, a concubine, unaware that back home a row between his wife and Daniel has ended in a kiss. When the pasha is murdered by enemies, however, Albert is implicated and the Liverpool party must flee as a nearby volcano erupts. - Goodbye, Goodbye
E11Goodbye, GoodbyeAt last James buys a house for Anne. Sailing on the 'Lady Lazenby', Baines suffers an accident and is in danger of needing his leg amputated. Onedin opposes this, believing that the leg can be saved if it is set, and he is proved right. Albert and Elizabeth prepare for divorce but ultimately decide to give the marriage another chance. Fogarty admits to Emma that he fathered Elizabeth's child but they still plan to marry.
