Non.Fiction.01.Sea.Hunters.1996 by Cussler Clive

Author:Cussler, Clive [Cussler, Clive]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

One of four new screw sloops fresh out of the shipyards of Boston,

Housatonic mounted thirteen guns, one of them a big rifled

hundred-pounder. She displaced 1,240 tons and measured 205 feet in

length. Her beam was 38 feet and her draft, 16 feet, 7 inches. This

night only 12

feet separated her keel from the soft silt of the seabed.

Pickering had been alerted to the dangers of a possible attack by the

Confederate torpedo boat. The entire Union fleet knew about the

threat, courtesy of spies and deserters who had described her. As a

precaution, Pickering ordered his crew to drop around the ship nets

weighted by shot to act as a shield. He thought, mistakenly as it

turned out, that the nets could snag the underwater craft if it crept

close to his ship. Additional lookouts were posted and howitzers on

the deck were aimed not at land but at the water below. Engineers were

ordered to have twenty-five pounds of steam on the boilers at all

times.

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