Seaflower
“The meeting was most unfortunate: having emerged from the island passage Seaflower was prevented from going to windward by the lie of the land, and to bear away to leeward would favour the bigger canvas a brig-sloop could show.
'We put about an' return, sir?' Jarman asked immediately. There was no dishonour to fly before a vessel probably carrying half as many guns again as they.
Farrell turned on him angrily. 'What do you conceive is our duty, sir? To run at the sight of every strange sail?' Jarman grunted. 'Well, we—' 'Clear for action, Mr Merrick,' Farrell ordered. Seaflower kept on her course westward towards the brig and girded for war. All eyes were on their opponent. The brig seemed nonplussed at Seaflower's aggression and fell off the wind somewhat.
Kydd took the tiller, feeling the willing restlessness of the craft, and even through his own anxieties he felt for the lovely cutter and what she must suffer soon. The enemy brig was longer than they and therefore could array a gr...eater broadside; being square-rigged with the ability to back sails she was more manoeuvrable in a clinch.MoreLess
'We put about an' return, sir?' Jarman asked immediately. There was no dishonour to fly before a vessel probably carrying half as many guns again as they.
Farrell turned on him angrily. 'What do you conceive is our duty, sir? To run at the sight of every strange sail?' Jarman grunted. 'Well, we—' 'Clear for action, Mr Merrick,' Farrell ordered. Seaflower kept on her course westward towards the brig and girded for war. All eyes were on their opponent. The brig seemed nonplussed at Seaflower's aggression and fell off the wind somewhat.
Kydd took the tiller, feeling the willing restlessness of the craft, and even through his own anxieties he felt for the lovely cutter and what she must suffer soon. The enemy brig was longer than they and therefore could array a gr...eater broadside; being square-rigged with the ability to back sails she was more manoeuvrable in a clinch.MoreLess
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