Ramage's Trial
“Stafford was by far the most outraged at what he regarded as the perfidy of the Jason, although his anger was mixed with contempt for her poor shooting.
“Beats me,” he declared, “how they could all miss. I mean ter say, if it was a single broadside fired all at once, then the ship could have rolled at the wrong time. But there she was, sailing across our bow, bang, bang, bang…”
“For me it is enough that those gunners did miss,” Gilbert said, his French accent more pronounced, as though the sudd...en shock had affected his English, which was normally good.
Rossi had no doubts. “She is captured by the French,” he declared. “She comes down with the enemy’s colours – we’ve done it, so we can’t make of the complaining. And she rakes us. But the gunners are not used to the guns.”
“A gun is a gun,” Stafford pointed out. “You load it, aim and fire it. Doesn’t make any difference whether the gun was cast by a British or a French gunfounder.”
“Is true,” Rossi admitted, “but if these were privateersmen, used to shooting 6-pounders and smaller from the deck of a tiny privateer, then they would not find it so easy firing 12-pounders from a frigate.”MoreLess
“Beats me,” he declared, “how they could all miss. I mean ter say, if it was a single broadside fired all at once, then the ship could have rolled at the wrong time. But there she was, sailing across our bow, bang, bang, bang…”
“For me it is enough that those gunners did miss,” Gilbert said, his French accent more pronounced, as though the sudd...en shock had affected his English, which was normally good.
Rossi had no doubts. “She is captured by the French,” he declared. “She comes down with the enemy’s colours – we’ve done it, so we can’t make of the complaining. And she rakes us. But the gunners are not used to the guns.”
“A gun is a gun,” Stafford pointed out. “You load it, aim and fire it. Doesn’t make any difference whether the gun was cast by a British or a French gunfounder.”
“Is true,” Rossi admitted, “but if these were privateersmen, used to shooting 6-pounders and smaller from the deck of a tiny privateer, then they would not find it so easy firing 12-pounders from a frigate.”MoreLess
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