New Vanguard [188] Great Lakes Warships 1812-1815 by Mark Lardas

Author:Mark Lardas [Lardas, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780960487
Google: pKOHCwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 13532337
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2012-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

I now remember to have heard a strange rushing noise to windward ... though it made no impression on me at the time ... there not being a breath of air, and no motion to the water ... [Suddenly] a flash of lightning almost blinded me. The thunder came at the next instant, and with it a rushing of winds that fairly smothered the clap.

The instant I was aware there was a squall, I sprang for the jib-sheet ... I jumped on a man named Leonard Lewis, and called on him to lend me a hand. I next let fly the larboard, or lee top-sail-sheet, got hold of the clew-line, and, assisted by Lewis, got the clew half up ... The water was now up to my breast, and I knew the schooner must go over.

... the schooner was filled with the shrieks and cries of the men to leeward, who were lying jammed under the guns, shot-boxes, shot, and other heavy things that had gone down as the vessel fell over.

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