Shark Island
“He sought out Hammond to discuss the matter of the cook, got his agreement, and then headed to the bay where Forsythe and the cutter’s men were camped.
To his surprise and pleasure, he found that every last balk of timber had been lowered to the beach, and that the cutter’s men had set with gusto to the job of connecting them together to make a sturdy raft. Typically, Forsythe had claimed territory: The largest U.S. flag the Swallow possessed was now flying grandly from the tall flagpole on the... forecourt of the ruined prison, a signal to all those who passed the island, and privateers in particular, that Americans were in possession.
Rochester headed back to the schooner, to find that a kedge anchor had been lodged in shallower water twenty yards closer to the beach, and the stout hawser that was secured to this had been attached to the windlass. Orders, shouted by Hammond and echoed by Midshipman Keith, rattled back and forth as hands worked manfully at the windlass to winch the hawser in, shortening it so that the schooner was heaved up to the kedge.MoreLess
To his surprise and pleasure, he found that every last balk of timber had been lowered to the beach, and that the cutter’s men had set with gusto to the job of connecting them together to make a sturdy raft. Typically, Forsythe had claimed territory: The largest U.S. flag the Swallow possessed was now flying grandly from the tall flagpole on the... forecourt of the ruined prison, a signal to all those who passed the island, and privateers in particular, that Americans were in possession.
Rochester headed back to the schooner, to find that a kedge anchor had been lodged in shallower water twenty yards closer to the beach, and the stout hawser that was secured to this had been attached to the windlass. Orders, shouted by Hammond and echoed by Midshipman Keith, rattled back and forth as hands worked manfully at the windlass to winch the hawser in, shortening it so that the schooner was heaved up to the kedge.MoreLess
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