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Some sailors have pondered over it, too, knowing that a small boat, built of wood, and fastened with nails, will float if water-logged. "But the answer is simple. Most big craft are built of oak or hard pine, and fastened together with iron spikes and bolts sixty tons at least to a three-hundred-ton schooner.
For the better part of five months Mainwaring cruised about in the waters surrounding the Bahama Islands. In that time he ran to earth and dispersed a dozen nests of pirates. He destroyed no less than fifteen piratical crafts of all sizes, from a large half-decked whaleboat to a three-hundred-ton barkentine.
For the better part of five months Mainwaring cruised about in the waters surrounding the Bahama Islands. In that time he ran to earth and dispersed a dozen nests of pirates. He destroyed no less than fifteen piratical crafts of all sizes, from a large half-decked whaleboat to a three-hundred-ton barkentine.
They and their mission were forgotten as the tension of war times relaxed. The Virginia Dynasty was not to end with James Madison. On a May afternoon in the year 1813, a little three-hundred-ton ship, the Neptune, put out from New Castle down Delaware Bay.
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