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Updated: June 23, 2025
Having at length seen the launch fairly under weigh for the schooner, I sent Fidd away with four hands in the gig to fire our two smaller prizes a task which was soon accomplished, as the vessels were lying alongside each other. The felucca's canvas was then loosed, her anchor was roused up to her bows, and we got under weigh.
"If the ship goes down, we intend to go down with her," cried one of his own mates. "A short life and a merry one. Oh! come and join us, old Fidd." The boatswain finding remonstrance useless, and unwilling to waste time returned to his labours. Just at that moment there came a fearful crash, the stout timbers and beams were rent, as if composed of mere touchwood. The ship broke in two.
Nothing more could now be done until morning, for which all hands eagerly waited. "The boat won't hold half of us. Let us form a raft, lads," shouted Mr Fidd, the boatswain. This was no easy matter in the dark.
"Ay, ay, Mr Fidd, I saw it. Are the starboard guns loaded?" "Yes, sir." "Then kindly pass along the word to the captain of each gun to watch for the next splash and then to train his gun upon it."
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