 | David Porter - 1822 - 626 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cock-pit filled with wounded, although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a...were still encouraged to hope to save her, from the ,s.ircnm«tance of the Cherub, being compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again,... | |
 | David Porter - 1823 - 152 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cock-pit filled with wounded, although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a...hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cherub being compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again, although she apparently had... | |
 | John Brannan - 1823 - 510 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled with wounded — although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a perfect wreck, we were still encouraged to a hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cherub being compelled to haul off. She did not return... | |
 | John Brannan - 1823 - 522 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled with wounded — although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a perfect wreck, we were still encouraged to a hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cherub being compelled to haul off. She did not return... | |
 | John Brannan - 1823 - 520 pages
...perfect wreck, we were still encouraged to a hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cherub being compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action, although she apparently had it in her power to do so, but kept up a distant firing with her long guns.... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1836 - 302 pages
...now arose that she might yet be saved, in consequence of the Cherub being so much crippled as to be compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again ; but she kept up her fire at a distance, with her long guns. The Essex was unable, however, to take... | |
 | 1854 - 676 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead and our cockpit filled with wounded — although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a...crippled state, being compelled to haul off. She did not I return to close action again, although she had it apparently in her power to do so, but kept up a... | |
 | Gilbert Auchinleck - 1855 - 456 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead and our cockpit filled with wounded — although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a...her, from the circumstance of the Cherub, from her erippled state, being compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again, although she... | |
 | Samuel F. Holbrook - 1857 - 518 pages
...although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled with wounded—although our ship had been several times on fire, and was rendered a...to hope to save her, from the circumstance of the Cheruh, from her crippled state, being compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again,... | |
 | Henry Marie Brackenridge - 1836 - 324 pages
...now arose that she might yet be saved, in consequence of the Cherub being so much crippled as to be compelled to haul off. She did not return to close action again ; but she kept up her fire at a distance, with her long guns. The Essex was unable, however, to take... | |
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I had let fall my foretopsail and foresail, but the want of tacks and sheets rendered them almost useless to us, yet we were enabled for a short time to close with the ene-my ; and although our decks were now strewed with dead, and our cockpit filled... 
