A Sea Unto Itself
“With the wind as it was there would be no going back up the gulf, and no point to it anyway. He’d have to come out sooner or later. Should he press on with as much sail as Cassandra could carry and hope to slip past in a mad race for Mocha? No, L'Agile was the faster ship. He called up in his mind the narrow passage between the gulf and the Red Sea, with reef-encircled islands on one side and reef-encrusted shoals on the other. The straits were too narrow for maneuver. The Frenchman would rake ...him repeatedly at an ever shortening range as he bore down. If his masts were somehow miraculously undamaged and he slipped by in one direction or another, she would run him down, yawing to fire her broadsides into his stern until he was crippled. They had to fight; it was their best chance; it was their only chance. More than that, it was the opportunity to close, yardarm to yardarm, where gunnery would tell.
He looked again at the men collecting at the ladderway to the gundeck. Ayres’marines held them back from storming upwards.MoreLess
He looked again at the men collecting at the ladderway to the gundeck. Ayres’marines held them back from storming upwards.MoreLess
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