A Narrative of My Professional Adventures: (1790-1839)Navy Records Society, 1953 - 468 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 184
... vessel was casting off from the pier , she swung the wrong way , by which means the hawser that held her got foul , and could not be cast off by hand . One of the passengers , a very active , powerful young man , exerted himself in a ...
... vessel was casting off from the pier , she swung the wrong way , by which means the hawser that held her got foul , and could not be cast off by hand . One of the passengers , a very active , powerful young man , exerted himself in a ...
Σελίδα 373
... vessel at anchor close inshore . Outside of her lay a small island in the shape of a rock covered with verdure . I now proposed to him to take the boats and bring this vessel out . He 1 A considerable understatement : rather , a direct ...
... vessel at anchor close inshore . Outside of her lay a small island in the shape of a rock covered with verdure . I now proposed to him to take the boats and bring this vessel out . He 1 A considerable understatement : rather , a direct ...
Σελίδα 383
... vessel , he said , had been taken from him by his crew : she was in a state of mutiny . As he could not refrain from repeating his remarks upon the correct firing of the frigate , I asked him if he knew the effect of the two first shots ...
... vessel , he said , had been taken from him by his crew : she was in a state of mutiny . As he could not refrain from repeating his remarks upon the correct firing of the frigate , I asked him if he knew the effect of the two first shots ...
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PEACE March 1790January 1793 | 1 |
THE FIRST OF JUNE April 1794December 1794 | 115 |
THE LESSER ANTILLES March 1796March 1798 | 317 |
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