Wednesday, April 17, 2013

History: Aboard The Terrible

April 15: Light Aires and Fair Weather: at 7 PM saw 2 Sails Bearing NbE: to the SoWard at 5 AM Saw a Sail on the Lee Quarter Ware and gave Chace Sett all Sailes & Chace bore away and Set all Sailes She could Perceived her to be a Brigg At 9 saw a French Man of War to Windward She hoisted her Colours We hoisted ours we in full Chace at 12 hoisted our colors and fired a Shot at the Chace at 12 she hoisted American Colors fired several shots at her at noon she fired two stern Chaces at us, continued the Chace

April 16: Still in Chace Fired several shots at her 1 Chace struck her colours and Shortened Sail, we began to take in our Sailes brought to as did the Chace Hoisted out a Boate and sent an Officer on Board She proved to be an American Privateer Brigg called the Rising States, Capt Thompson Commander Carr, 12 six pounders eight of which she had hove overboard chased and 61 men She had taken three English vessels

~ copied verbatim, including spelling and punctuation, from the log of Captain Richard Bickerton, HMS Terrible of 74 guns, in the English Channel, 1777

Header: Towing a Privateer by A. Roux c 1806 via Naval Architecture
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4 comments:

  1. Timmy!April 18, 2013 at 7:55 PM

    Hey, a midweek post! Cool, Pauline! Proving that sometimes you have to know when discretion is the better part of valor...

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  2. PaulineApril 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM

    I know, right; good times here at Triple P, not so good for Rising States.

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  3. AnonymousApril 25, 2013 at 9:01 AM

    So cool in the raw form. It's like the differenjce between a diary and a biography: so much more immediate.

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  4. PaulineApril 25, 2013 at 4:32 PM

    I agree, Lou. Even the way things are spelled and the grammar used makes it more "real."

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