 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fear that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking...aft on the poop without my knowledge, to strike the colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff:... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fear that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking...aft on the poop without my knowledge, to strike the colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff:... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff; he was therefore reduced to the necessity of sinking, as he supposed, or of calling for... | |
 | John Paul Jones - United States - 1830 - 358 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff; he was therefore reduced to the... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking, which occasioned the gunner to rup aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannon ball... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff; he was therefore reduced to the... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that ehe would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colors. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff ;... | |
 | John Frost - Naval battles - 1850 - 462 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...knowledge, to strike the colours. Fortunately for me, a cannonball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff; he was therefore reduced to the... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fears that .c;he would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colors. Fortunately for me, a cannon-ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign-staff;... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 434 pages
...under water, and one of the pumps being shot away, the carpenter expressed his fear that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking,...aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colors ; fortunately for me, a cannon ball had done that before, by carrying away the ensign staff;... | |
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... that she would sink, and the other two concluded that she was sinking, which occasioned the gunner to run aft on the poop, without my knowledge, to strike the colours. 
