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"Luff now, all you can, quartermaster," cried the captain. "Send the men aft directly. My lads, there is no time for words I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear. The only chance you have of safety is to be cool, watch my eye, and execute my orders with precision. Away to your stations for tacking ship. Hands by the best bower anchor. Mr.
Have the best bower-cable ranged, double-bitt it, and stopper it at, say, thirty fathoms. Mr Galway where is Mr Galway? Mr Delamere, be good enough to find Mr Galway, and say I want him or no, tell him that it may be necessary to club-haul the ship, and request him to muster the carpenter and his mates below, ready to cut away the best bower at the instant that I give the word.
I answered every question satisfactorily, and finding that I did so, they put more difficult ones. "Very good, very good indeed, Mr Simple; now let me ask you one more; it's seldom done in the service, and perhaps you may not be able to answer it. Do you know how to club-haul a ship?"
"I told him I would club-haul the ship, and try all sorts of manoeuvres to beat out of the bay, and would not on any account let her go ashore." "I'm not surprised that you were turned back, old fellow," observed Rayner, with a laugh. On returning on shore he met Commander Saltwell. "I congratulate you, Rayner," he said.
"Luff now, all you can, quarter-master," cried the captain. "Send the men aft directly. My lads, there is no time for words I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear. The only chance you have of safety is to be cool, watch my eye, and execute my orders with precision. Away to your stations for tacking ship. Hands by the best bower anchor.
Being handled by merchant skippers, no doubt they rode out the gale, and reached the Tagus safe and sound. Not but what the captain of the 'Primrose' Mein was his name did quite right to try and club-haul his vessel when he found himself under the land; only he never ought to have got there, if he took proper soundings. But it's easy talking.
He would club-haul her, "and if that fails, my lads, there is nothing but up mainsail, up helm, run her slap ashore, and lay her bones on the softest bit of rock we can pick." Long ere this the poor ship had become a live thing to all these four, and they hung breathless on her fate. "The boat will be at the mercy of chance among all those tails, and we are not lucky enough to throw at random.
I answered every question satisfactorily; and finding that I did so, they put more difficult ones. "Very good, very good indeed, Mr Simple; now let me ask you one more; it's seldom done in the service, and perhaps you may not be able to answer it. Do you know how to club-haul a ship?"
The contrary, however, was the case; and I've found, even during my short experience afloat ay, and in spite of the ridiculous assertions of some shore folk, who know about as much of life in the navy as they do to club-haul a ship off a lee shore that the men who have learnt to hold on by the skin of their teeth in a heavy gale, from the aptitude they have gained in the old-fashioned class of ships, are the handiest and the readiest at a pinch in the new!
"Luff now, all you can, quarter-master," cried the captain. "Send the men aft directly. My lads, there is no time for words I am going to club-haul the ship, for there is no room to wear. The only chance you have of safety is to be cool, watch my eye, and execute my orders with precision. Away to your stations for tacking ship. Hands by the best bower anchor.
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