mizenpeak

Updated: May 7, 2025

A moment of breathless suspense, and another cheer rose from the delighted throng of sailors, as the stranger's sails were seen for a moment to shiver in the wind, and the frightened chase luffed to the wind, and then lay motionless with the Stars and Stripes at her mizenpeak.

Raphael Semmes - The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter