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Updated: June 16, 2025
Noblemen, who have their own servants, are too fastidious to mingle with the crowd; and pay extra to the cooks, poor, sweating fellows, toiling crossly in a tiny galley for food which their servants bring to them on the main-deck, or even below. After the pilgrims, the captain and his council dine in state off silver dishes; and the captain's wine is tasted before he drinks it.
Anson, of course, had no intention of sailing for England. The Centurion's boat was immediately despatched, and preparations were made for receiving him; for a hundred of the most sightly of the crew were uniformly dressed in the regimentals of the marines, and were drawn up under arms on the main-deck, against his arrival.
Again the bows of the two ships met, when the outer arm of the Wolf's best bower anchor, entering the foremost main-deck port of the French frigate, held her fast. Though the English continued to pour broadside after broadside into their enemy, no signal of surrender was shown.
I couldn't hear anything more, so I just let go the wheel for a second to call you up." "You're scared!" said Captain Johns. "I am, sir, straight!" Captain Johns stared at him. The silence of his ship driving on her way seemed to contain a danger a mystery. He was reluctant to go and look for his mate himself, in the shadows of the main-deck, so quiet, so still.
Suddenly, the simultaneous discharge of three or four of our main-deck guns was followed by a cheer of delight from our lads, and, jumping upon the carriage of one of the quarter-deck guns, I was just in time to see the French ship's mizenmast fall forward, dragging down the main-topgallant-mast with it and passing through the main topsail and mainsail in its fall, splitting them from head to foot.
"Our present course, however, will take us unpleasantly close to that battery; so," looking round until his eye lighted on me "be so good as to step down to the main-deck, Mr Chester, and request Mr Flinn to treble-shot his larboard broadside and pour it into that battery as we pass.
"Get the two after guns on the main-deck ready to run out astern as soon as we have some ports made for them." Having given this order, the captain descended to the main-deck. Mr Gimbol, the carpenter, soon made his appearance there from below, where he had been going his rounds through the wings, to stop any shot-holes which might have been made between wind and water.
Fast alongside a wharf, littered like any ship in port with a tangle of unrelated things, invaded by unrelated shore people, I had hardly seen her yet properly. Now, as she lay cleared for sea, the stretch of her main-deck seemed to me very fine under the stars. Very fine, very roomy for her size, and very inviting.
She was stowed on the main-deck in a place that probably was intended for the use of third-class passengers, when such were carried and the machine-shop was so close to her that in the matter of fetching tools and so on my steps would be well saved.
Men with this quality become captains-general of armies or of money-bags. In a man it signifies force; in a woman, charm. Kitty searched diligently and found the object of her quest on the main-deck, starboard, leaning against one of the deck supports and reading from a book which lay flat on the broad teak rail, in a blue shadow. The sea smiled at Kitty and Kitty smiled at the sea.
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