 | 1813 - 1008 pages
...«bout .to place himself in a raking position, without our being able to return the lire, biing л perfect wreck and unmanageable log ; I deemed it prudent,...was this dreadful alternative resorted to till every Lope of success was removed, «ven beyond the reach of cliuncc, nor till, I trust, their Lordships... | |
 | 1812 - 640 pages
...position, without onr being enabled to rtturn the fire, being a perfect wreck and unmanageable log ; 1 deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity, to...alternative resorted to till every hope of success was reiqovcd., even beyond the reach of chance, nor till,l trust, their Lordships will be aware every effort... | |
 | 1813 - 818 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and tlie enemy comparatively in good order, who had now shot a-head, and was about to place himself in a raking position, without our being enabled to retura turn the fire, being a perfect wreck, and unmanageable log ; I deemed it prudent, though a painful... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - 1814 - 504 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had now shot ahead, and was about to place himself in a raking position,...alternative resorted to till every hope of success w;is removed, even beyond the reach of chance, nor till, I trust, their lordships will be aware even,'... | |
 | William James - 1817 - 788 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had now shot a-head, and was about to place himself in a raking position,...the fire, being a perfect wreck, and unmanageable 1og, I deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity, to surrender his majesty's ship; nor was this... | |
 | C. H. Gifford - 1817 - 904 pages
...the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had now •hot a-head, and was about to place himself in a raking position, without our being enabled to return me fire, being a perfect wreck, and unmanageable log; I deemea it prudent, though a painful extremity,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1821 - 976 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had nowshot a-head, and was about to place himself in a raking position, without our being enabled to return turn the fire, being a perfect wreck and unmanageable log ; I deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity,... | |
 | 1842 - 650 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had now shot ahead, and was ABOUT to place himself in a raking position,...the fire, being a perfect wreck, and unmanageable too, — I deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity, to surrender his Majesty's ship." — Occ.... | |
 | 1842 - 620 pages
...of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, who had now shot ahead, and was ABOUT to place himself in a raking position,...the fire, being a perfect wreck, and unmanageable too, — I deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity, to surrender his Majesty's ship." — Occ.... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy comparatively in good order, and who had now shot ahead, and was about to place himself in a raking position,...enabled to return the fire, being a perfect wreck and an unmanageable log ; I deemed it prudent, though a painful extremity, to surrender His Majesty's ship... | |
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... fore-yard, all the guns on the quarter-deck and forecastle disabled but two, and filled with wreck, two also on the main-deck disabled, and several shot between wind and water, a very great proportion of the crew killed and wounded, and the enemy... 
