guarda-costa's

Updated: May 20, 2025

But the guarda-costa's people had no idea of tamely accepting their defeat as final. No sooner was it light enough for them to fairly make us out, than they shifted their sails, substituting single-reefed lateens for the lugs, and taking in their storm-jib out of the way.

Harry Collingwood - Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War