Burning the Henrietta

Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne · 12–21 Dec 1872

Captain Speedy's Henrietta is bound for Bordeaux and takes no passengers. Fogg pays the crew, locks Speedy in his cabin and steers for Liverpool. When the coal runs out he buys the ship and burns her decks, cabins and masts to keep the engines going, as far as Queenstown.