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Owing, therefore, to this strong cross tide and the great sea, every minute breaking more furiously as the water was falling with the ebb-tide, the greatest judgment was required by the coxswains to anchor in the right spot, so as not to be swung hopelessly out of reach of the vessel by the tide.
"In single line," the coxswain of the Bluebird, which was next to the Zephyr, interpreted the signal, and his boat followed the flag. The others came into the line in proper order, and the squadron passed entirely round the lake. "Cease rowing!" exclaimed the coxswains, in concert, as the red flag again appeared.
I must send down and tell the captain at once." With that, he hailed the midshipman of the watch and despatched him with the news to Captain Hankey's cabin aft; while at the same time he rang the engine-room gong, and shouted down through the voice-tube to tell them below to `stand by, as probably we would want steam up in a very short time; directing also the coxswains of the boats alongside to make ready, as well as passing the word forward for the boatswain's mates and the drummer and bugler to be handy when wanted.
The crew are obtained from a body of 150 enrolled volunteers. The first ten of these who get into the lifeboat when the rocket signal goes up from the pier-head form on that occasion the crew of the lifeboat. In addition to these the two coxswains, by virtue of their office, raise the total number to twelve.
Let me, however, make sail and get under way with my yarn. Cast we our eyes outward once again, beyond the boats with their beautiful coxswains I mean hen-swains to where that huge glistening iron mass floats proudly on the main. Reader, that object is the heroine, if I may so say, of this very unromantic story.
It was now about 3 p.m., and the tide was again falling when the lugger Champion, of Ramsgate, appeared and anchored in the swatchway spoken of above. Some of her crew also went on board the Mandalay, and under the directions and advice of Roberts and Hanger, the two Deal coxswains, who were determined to win, all hands turned to throwing overboard the cargo to lighten the vessel.
Wave after wave advanced, breaking over them in clouds, taking their breath away and drenching them. The coxswains were watching for a smooth to sheer the lifeboat's head closer to the wreck, and the wearied sailors on the wreck were anxiously watching their efforts, when, as will happen at irregular intervals, which are beyond calculation, a great sea advanced, and was seen towering afar.
On shipboard, the only "gentleman" officers were the captains; the rest masters, master's mates, pilots, carpenters, boatswains, coxswains, and gunners were, to quote a contemporary description, "mechanick men that had been bred up from swabbers."
Rudolph Clausen, Osborne Deignan, and —— Murphy, coxswains, to be chief boatswain’s mates, an increase of twenty dollars a month. George F. Phillips, machinist, from forty dollars a month to seventy dollars a month. Francis Kelly, water tender, to be chief machinist, from thirty-seven dollars a month to seventy dollars a month. Lieutenant Hobson’s reward would come through Congress.
Watch the flags closely, and every coxswain be very prudent." "Ay, ay!" "Tony will lead in the Dip, and each boat will place a man in the bow to look out for buoys, which he will place over rocks and shoals." "Ay, ay," answered the coxswains. "Now, Tony, you may go up and mark off the rocks at the mouth of the river."
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