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"Back," cried Lawless, turning to the cutter in which they had come, "to the Acasta, and tell her to send all her boats alongside; this ship is a perfect wreck. She must sink in a few minutes. We have hardly time to get the wounded off. Lively, bear a hand for your lives, men."
Oh, Lawless, what a disgrace! I can't understand it. Our men did well. And she goes free, and look at us!" "Ship is making water fast; we can't get at the fire forward either, sir," reported one of the Juno's officers. "Good God, can't we save the ship?" queried Lieutenant Lawless, of the Acasta. "No, it will be as much as we can do to get off the wounded, I fear."
We received orders from the captain of the Acasta to join the admiral, who was off the Texel in pursuance of directions he had received from the Admiralty to despatch one of the squadron, and we were selected, from the dislike which he had taken to Captain Hawkins.
The Acasta lost four men killed, and seven wounded; the Isis, three men wounded; the Reindeer had nobody hurt; the Rattlesnake had six men killed, and two wounded, including the captain; but of that I shall speak hereafter. I found that I was by no means seriously hurt by the blow I had received: my shoulder was stiff for a week, and very much discoloured, but nothing more.
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