 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 374 pages
...gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water that could be thrown to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the...magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity, and it... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1825 - 400 pages
...gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water that could be thrown to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the...magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity, and it... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 566 pages
...The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water that could be thrown in to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the...magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity, and it... | |
 | John Paul Jones - History - 1830 - 564 pages
...powder magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder ulK>n deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity, and it was ten o'clock the next day, the 24th, before the fire was entirely extinguished. With respect to the situation of... | |
 | John Paul Jones - United States - 1830 - 358 pages
...gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship in spite of all the water that could be thrown in to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the powdermagazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma I took out the powder upon deck,... | |
 | John Paul Jones - 1845 - 416 pages
...length broke out as low as the powder-magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown...overboard at the last extremity, and it was ten o'clock the next day (the 24th,) before the fire was entirely extinguished. With respect to the situation of... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1847 - 470 pages
...The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water lhat could be thrown in to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the powder-magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon... | |
 | John Frost - Naval battles - 1850 - 462 pages
...gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship in spite of all the water that could be thrown in to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the powder-magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma I took out the powder upon... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1850 - 448 pages
...The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water that could be thrown in to quench it, and .at length broke out as low as the powder-magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon... | |
 | John Henry Sherburne - United States - 1851 - 434 pages
...gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship, in spite of all the water that could be thrown to quench it, and at length broke out as low as the...magazine, and within a few inches of the powder. In that dilemma, I took out the powder upon deck, ready to be thrown overboard at the last extremity, and it... | |
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... it was moderate from the explosion of so much gunpowder, yet the three pumps that remained could with difficulty only keep the water from gaining. The fire broke out in various parts of the ship... 
