Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora
Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora
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The frigate in the mean time ran in the bay to leeward of us about one-quarter of a mile (her distance from the cape hindering it from becalming her as it did us), and began to bring her cannon to bear on us. Her two prizes hove to ; one we knew to be the __ Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora brig Active, Captain Mesnard ; the other, as we after ward learned, was a Salem brig from the West In dies. The frigate was the Iris returning from Charleston to New York with the express of th...e former s being taken. We now began to fire upon each other at the distance of about three hundred yards. The frigate hulled us several times. One shot went betwixt wind and water, which made the ship leak amazingly, making twenty-four inches in thirty minutes. We found our four-pounders but were trifles against the frigate, so we got our nine-pounder, the only one we had, pointed from the cabin win dows, with which we played upon the frigate for about half an hour. At last a twelve-pound shot came from the frigate and, striking a parcel of oars lashed upon the starboard quarter, broke them all in two, and continuing its destructive course struck Cap tain Laboyteaux in the right thigh, which it smashed to atoms, tearing part of his belly open at the same time with the splinters from the oars ; he fell from the quarter deck close by me and for some time seemed very busily engaged in setting his leg to rights.
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The frigate in the mean time ran in the bay to leeward of us about one-quarter of a mile (her distance from the cape hindering it from becalming her as it did us), and began to bring her cannon to bear on us. Her two prizes hove to ; one we knew to be the __ Some Account of the Capture of the Ship Aurora brig Active, Captain Mesnard ; the other, as we after ward learned, was a Salem brig from the West In dies. The frigate was the Iris returning from Charleston to New York with the express of th...e former s being taken. We now began to fire upon each other at the distance of about three hundred yards. The frigate hulled us several times. One shot went betwixt wind and water, which made the ship leak amazingly, making twenty-four inches in thirty minutes. We found our four-pounders but were trifles against the frigate, so we got our nine-pounder, the only one we had, pointed from the cabin win dows, with which we played upon the frigate for about half an hour. At last a twelve-pound shot came from the frigate and, striking a parcel of oars lashed upon the starboard quarter, broke them all in two, and continuing its destructive course struck Cap tain Laboyteaux in the right thigh, which it smashed to atoms, tearing part of his belly open at the same time with the splinters from the oars ; he fell from the quarter deck close by me and for some time seemed very busily engaged in setting his leg to rights.
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