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Updated: June 7, 2025
They move with a brisker gait than when times were so hard and they went begging for charters at any terms. A sinewy patriarch stumps to a window, flourishes his arm at an ancient two-master, and booms out: "That vessel of mine is as sound as a nut, I tell ye.
This proved to be the British frigate, and her disappointed captain at once pretty sharply explained to the Frenchmen the difference between a two-master from Rio and a British-Yankee runaway bark from nobody knew where. Then came sweeping along the gallant Portsmouth, and there was need for additional conversation all around.
* It is said that as the odd two-master slid gracefully into the water, a spectator exclaimed: "See how she scoons!" "Aye," answered Captain Robinson, "a SCHOONER let her be!" This launching took place in 1718 or 1714. Before the Revolution the first New England schooners were beating up to the Grand Bank of Newfoundland after cod and halibut.
The captives were the Frasquito and the Lorenzo, both small vessels of no great value as compared with the big steamers taken during the first days of the war. The Montgomery was cruising about fifty miles off Havana when the Frasquito, a two-master, came bowling along toward the Cuban capital.
Parks called out in a voice hoarse with fighting the wind. The captain sprang from his cot he was awake, his light still burning. "Anybody drownded?" "No, sir; got 'em all. Seven of 'em, so the patrol said. Come ashore 'bout supper-time." "What is she?" "A two-master from Virginia loaded with cord-wood. Surf's in bad shape, sir; couldn't nothin' live in it afore; it's wuss now.
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