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Updated: May 7, 2025
I stood talking with Murgatroyd until we were once more almost within hail of the barque, when, with the bowline at the end of the line over my left shoulder and under my right arm, I laid out to the flying-jib-boom-end, upon which I took my stand, steadying myself by grasping the royal stay in my left hand.
In a few minutes it disappeared, and showed itself again on the fore top-gallant yard; and, after playing about for some time, disappeared once more, when the man on the forecastle pointed to it upon the flying-jib-boom-end.
I thought; for we had enough of them, us it was. There she comes! See, here is her flying-jib-boom-end and there hey! Wychecombe? That's the old Roman, shoving through the smoke! Cæsar himself! and there stands Dick and young Geoffrey Cleveland he was of your family, duke there stands Dick Bluewater, between the knight-heads, waving his hat HURRAH! He's true, at last!
In a few minutes it disappeared, and showed itself again on the fore top-gallant yard; and after playing about for some time, disappeared again; when the man on the forecastle pointed to it upon the flying-jib-boom-end.
In half a minute more, she was ahead of the Plantagenet's flying-jib-boom-end, steering a little free, so as not to throw the admiral to leeward. The Carnatic was scarcely out of the way, before the Achilles was ready to take her place.
Then, turning to the skipper, I said: "I propose that you shall take the ship up as close as possible to the wreck, precisely as you did at first; and I will dive from the flying-jib-boom-end which will approach the wreck more closely than our hull; and it will be for you to watch and so manoeuvre the ship either by easing up the fore-topmast staysail sheet, or in any other way that you may think best that she shall be kept fair abreast of and dead to leeward of the wreck until we can get the end of the hawser aboard and made fast.
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