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In so diminutive a vessel as a ten-gun brig, there is but a small party of marines, merely a sergeant's guard, and no commissioned officer, otherwise I hardly think the following trick would have been attempted. One Sunday, while going the formal division rounds, I came to a figure which at first sight puzzled me not a little.
Boxall had indeed a good head on his shoulders, and was respected by all. Many of us were still laughing at the commander's capsize, some declaring that it served him right for being in such a hurry. "Let me tell you youngsters that we must be in a hurry on board this craft," observed Boxall. "Do you know the name given to ten-gun brigs such as ours?
An officer who is so careless of his dress, as not even to put on a decent coat when he appears at his examination, generally turns out an idle fellow, and no seaman. One would think you had served all your time in a cutter, or a ten-gun brig, instead of dashing frigates. Come, sir, I'll give you one more chance." I was so hurt at what the captain said, that I could not control my feelings.
The one in the centre looked up from the papers that he was examining. "Good-morning, Mr. Wilkinson! I see by these papers that you have for six months been in command of the ten-gun brig Tigress, cruising for pirates among the Turkish and Greek islands." "Yes, sir." "I suppose during that time you met once or twice with bad weather?" "We had one tremendous squall, sir."
AFTER having been twice driven back by heavy southwestern gales, Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831.
Opposed to him were arrayed over a hundred guns mounted on shore batteries, nineteen gun-boats, one ten-gun brig, two schooners mounting eight guns each, and twelve galleys. Between August 3rd and September 3rd five attacks were made, and though the town was never reduced, substantial damage was inflicted, and the subsequent satisfactory peace rendered possible.
The horses were replaced by others from a reserve gun carriage, the wounded were carried away, and the four guns were turned against the ten-gun battery. Tushin's companion officer had been killed at the beginning of the engagement and within an hour seventeen of the forty men of the guns' crews had been disabled, but the artillerymen were still as merry and lively as ever.
Jeremy went white with anger. "An' now" Daggs' voice broke in a sudden snarl "an' now, we'll show ye how we treat such curs aboard a ten-gun buccaneer! Stand by, mates, to keel-haul him!" At this moment a second party of pirates poured swearing out of the fo'c's'le hatch, dragging Job Howland in their midst.
I once married couple on board of a little ten-gun brig of which I condescended to take the command, to oblige the first lord of the Admiralty; offered, I believe to provide for me, and rid the Board of all future solicitations for employment or promotion. It was one of my sailors, who had come to a determination to make an honest woman of Poll and an ass of himself, at one and the same time.
Nine high-sided battle-ships of ten-gun type nine floating forts, each one, unopposed, able to reduce to smoking ruin a city out of sight of its gunners; each one impregnable to the shell fire of any fortification in the world, and to the impact of the heaviest torpedo yet constructed they came silently along in line-ahead formation, like Indians on a trail.
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