The corvette was put about, and made for the bay of San Francisco with all steam on.
But the corvette wanted the necessary engines, which would have to be powerful and precise.
It was to the corvette Susquehanna that the first operations of sounding had been entrusted.
Every precaution was taken to keep the corvette perfectly motionless.
The Susquehanna, a corvette of 500 horse power, of the United States Navy, was taking soundings in the Pacific at about a hundred leagues from the American coast, abreast of that long peninsula on the coast of New Mexico.
His corvette had felt nothing of that great tempest which swept away the clouds heaped up on the Rocky Mountains, and allowed the course of the famous projectile to be observed.
The direction of the corvette was therefore given in view of reaching the precise spot.
The corvette approached to within two cables' length of the object.
The corvette moved some minutes farther west, and the apparatus, provisioned with air again, took the same explorers to the depths of the ocean.
The colours of the corvette hung from the mast motionless and inert.
His Excellency was surrounded by the officers of the corvette and by a number of Protestant Missionaries.
When a certain number of natives had signed the treaty the sovereignty of England over the whole of New Zealand was declared by a salvo of artillery fired by the corvette Herald.
In the course of this cruise she met the French corvette "Le Berceau," which struck after a plucky action of two hours.
By the time that the schooner was ready, and the breeze had come down to her, the corvette was not more than three miles from us; but it was quite dark, for there is no twilight in those parts.
In a quarter of an hour, the corvettebeing close to us, and standing stem on, we opened our fire, raking her masts and yards, and then I went down below.
A few minutes afterwards the corvette opened her fire, and the shot did great execution.
After that the guns of the corvette were secured, and the men had an allowance of liquor served out to them, the watch was called, and all was quiet during the remainder of that night.
This officer was an Englishman, in the service of the republic of Chili, and lieutenant of a corvette lying before Talcaguana.
It was known that a Danish corvette was becalmed in the neighborhood of Helgoland.
Next morning, as the corvette was weighing anchor, the frigate was seen coming in from the southward.
Upwards of a fortnight had gone by since the corvette and brig last weighed anchor.
The brig was the first to haul her wind, the corvette next; and Jack then, parting from her, stood for his station in the north.
Darkness was rapidly coming on, and by degrees the canvas of the corvette became shrouded in the mists of night.
The corvette had captured two with slaves on board, and continued her course with them; while the Romp had parted company, chasing a suspicious sail which made every effort to escape.
Leaving Saint Augustine's Bay, the frigate and corvette sailed across the Mozambique Channel, and came to an anchor off the mouth of the Angoxa.
The corvette and brig, therefore, early the next morning, accompanied by the boats, proceeded off to the village, where they brought up.
Adair soon afterwards, and the corvette brought up before a green slope, spotted with small whitewashed buildings, the hill becoming more rough and craggy till it reached an elevation of eight thousand feet above the sea.
Two days afterwards the corvette came to an anchor off the chief settlement of the Portuguese on that coast.
The wind being light, the corvette was making but little way through the water, and had a breeze come off the land, the dhow would have had a fair chance of escaping, had it not been for the boat ready to intercept her.
However, he ordered the gig to be manned, and as soon as the corvette approached the anchorage, he pulled away for her.
The corvette made but a short stay, and again sailed for Saint Augustine's Bay, at the southern end of Madagascar, which island was sighted in little more than a fortnight.
The corvette accordingly hove-to, to await her coming.
The midshipmen of the corvette invited those of the brig to a dinner on board, and Tom Rogers, with several companions, arrived at the appointed hour.
A convoy, consisting of a corvette of 16 guns, four brigs, and two sloops, had been chased into, Herqui.
The corvette and a merchant ship were set on fire: but the tide falling, the troops poured down close to the vessels, and the party in possession of them returned on board.
A flotilla was seen from the mast-head of Le Tigre, consisting of a corvette and nine sail of gun-vessels.
They proved to be a frigate of a larger size than the Dort and a corvette of twenty-two guns.
After some consultation with Krantz, Philip agreed, that as the corvette was in such a crippled state, and the nations were not actually at war, it would be advisable to release her with all the prisoners.
The corvette remained a few cables' length to windward, occasionally firing a gun.
About seven o'clock in the evening the corvette was seen stealing from Landsort's passage and going to anchor at once between Norsten and East Skerries.
It contained an invitation for the commissioner and his betrothed to honor the ball of the officers on board the corvette Loke, which would anchor beside the skerry at eight o'clock of the same day.
Afterwards when he had gone aboard the corvette and met people, with whom he could converse in a cultured language, and had discussed with the surgeon learned subjects, it at first acted as an intoxicant.
The corvette spins along admirably," said the Pilot, "and is steering straight for the Bay of Biscay.
But I heard the door of my cabin shut behind him, as distinctly as I now hear the waves breaking on the sides of the corvette at this moment.
In that case, Great Rono, you must have been dreaming in the corvette as well as in the Yankee.
To prevent the corvette from following, the Frenchmen again returned to their guns, and the frigate suddenly hauling up let fly her broadside.
He hoped to do something before the corvette had to return home.
The corvette at once prepared for action, and as soon as all was ready she shortened sail to allow the frigate to come up, greatly to the Frenchmen's surprise probably.
The corvette succeeded in carrying her prize to Jamaica.
The breeze which had fallen returned, and as the corvette was still under perfect command, he was able at length to obtain a position by which he could pour several raking broadsides into the bows of the enemy.
It was observed that buckets were being hauled up through the ports, the frigate must be on fire; her foremast fell, the corvetteranged up alongside, the French ensign was still flying.
The enemy's guns were well handled, and the corvette began to suffer accordingly.
The corvette and her prize having been put somewhat to rights, made sail for Jamaica.
Before night the corvette was far away from Halifax.
More sail was made on the corvette to keep up with him.
They only knew that the corvette had gone to the bottom--they saw her go down, shortly after drifting away from her side; but saw nothing more until morning, when they perceived themselves alone upon the ocean.
They were the spoils of the corvette that had been washed ashore and fallen into the hands of the wreckers.
The transports and corvette out to sail as soon as possible.
A few days later a government transport and corvette arrived: the garrison was supplied with two more carronade guns, and an abundance of ammunition and provisions.
Sailing from the Bay of San Jose, in company with the frigate Congress, andcorvette Cyane, we crossed the Californian Gulf, and made the land on the afternoon of November 11th.
No resistance had been made, and a corvettewas left to guard a deserted town.
The corvette captain stood quite unmoved, although there was a suppressed titter heard amongst his officers.
Just about this time the American corvette Narrangansett steamed into Apia Harbour.
And the next day Hayes fled from the island in an open boat, and I, with three others of the Leonora's company, saw from the decks of the corvette the blue peaks of Kusaie sink into the sea.
Anyhow, the captain of the corvette heard that Hayes was at anchor in Apia, and came down full speed from Pago Pago in Tutuila.
On learning this, I felt it my duty to despatch a corvette to seize her, though at the risk of four-fold damages, according to the regulations of the Admiralty Court!
Once the last gunboat had arrived, he did not lose any time, but weighed anchor the very next morning, and with the clumsy old black corvette and the three little white gunboats puffing after him, steered for the north.
Still the Wanderer lay motionless, like a beautiful picture, every sail that would draw set to catch the first whiff of the breeze that was bringing the corvette slowly within range.
A sailor was at each mast head watching for the Adams, as the course of the corvette was entirely unknown.
The Thalia brought me from Bequir several intercepted letters from France, taken in a corvette going to Alexandria.
The French expedition in thecorvette "La Coquille" visited Kusaie in June, 1824.
We had made such quick work of it, that the soldiers in the fort didn't discover what had happened until the corvette was under way, with her topsails and courses set, following the schooner.
As soon as we got inside the harbour, we saw the corvette anchored right in the centre.
Dashing his hat upon deck, he was about to plunge overboard and swim to the corvette for a cutter, when Captain Guy made his appearance and begged him to stay where he was.
His original intention was not to let go an anchor; but, counting upon the assistance of the corvette in case of any difficulty, he now changed his mind, and anchored alongside of her.
Following them up, was a shouting rabble of islanders, pricking them with the points of their long spears, the party from the corvette menacing them in flank with their naked cutlasses.
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