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Updated: May 16, 2025
"I did object to receive them, stating that they ought to go out in some vessel which was not so encumbered with troops, so that they might remain on the main-deck; but they replied, that the invoices were made out and could not be altered. But now to act. My idea is, to keep the hatches on, so as to smother it if possible."
At half-past five in the afternoon the Chesapeake, with a large flag flying, on which was inscribed the words, "Sailor's rights and free trade," approached the Shannon, and soon afterwards, luffing up within about fifty yards of her starboard-quarter, gave three cheers. At 5:50 p.m. the Shannon's aftermost main-deck gun was fired, and the two combatants exchanged broadsides.
Angeline Willetts! Whom was she with?" "A Madame Duclos, a French lady. I once spoke to her." "You did? And what did you say?" "I bade her good morning as we were passing on the main-deck stairs. But she did not answer, and I was not guilty of the impertinence again." "I see. Such, then, was the situation up to this morning. But since?
I had to return to the quarter-deck again, and when I once more came back to the main-deck I could nowhere see her; but whether she went into the ward-room, or had gone below, I could not learn. I asked several people, for I thought she might have brought me off a message from Susan, and I might, I fancied, have been of use to her in finding the person she wished to see.
He actually satisfied even our first lieutenant, who was a rough, hard-working fellow, who had made his way up after having got his promotion from the main-deck, or having, as we used to call it, come in at the hawse-holes. “He was an admirable seaman, heart and soul in his work, and ready to take off his coat and put on a suit of slops and work himself.
Seeing this, a brave fellow named Burgess, a maintop man, sprang aloft, and, in spite of the bullets aimed at him by some of the French marines stationed aft, cut the leech rope from the end of the main-yard. Our third lieutenant had in the meantime cut away our best bower anchor, which had hooked on to the enemy's ship. I was one of those who had got through the main-deck ports.
This observation of mine, and a promise on the part of the midshipman, who said he would be bail for me, satisfied Mr Jenkins, and he allowed me to go down the rigging. I went to my chest, and paid the seven shillings to one of the topmen who followed me, and then went up on the main-deck to learn as much as I could of my profession.
The colonel stepped forward beside Captain Vincent, and Desborough descended to the main-deck to superintend the fighting of the batteries, while Katharine, grateful for the respite, and determined not to go below at all, stepped aft in the shelter of the rail, her heart already beating madly, as the two ships approached each other in silence. Bentley Says Good-by
"Shall we cast loose the main-deck guns?" "No, no that will be useless; we shall not be able to fire them, and we may have them through the sides. We'll try her with the carronades."
"I rather fancy not, Sir Gervaise," answered Bunting, looking drolly at the boiling element that gushed up each minute from beneath the bottom of the ship, in a way to appear as high as the hammock-cloths. "The people at the main-deck guns would have rather a wet time of it." "Bend on the signal, sir, for the ships astern to keep in the vice-admiral's wake.
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