We now alongst the coast haue saild so many a mile, That sure we be our ships be lost, what should we do this while?
Our ship then newes doth beare when she to England wends That we nine surely drowned were, and thus doth tell our friends: While we thus being lost, aliue in miserie Do row in hope yet on this coast, our ships to finde truly.
And we the contrary, do row along the shore Forward thinking our ships to be still sailing vs before.
While we were ashore on the 25th, our ships descried 5 sail of ships belonging to the king of Portugal, and fired several shots to recall us on board.
I must not omit to notice the zeal and courage displayed by Simon Martin, the captain of one of our ships, on the following occasion in this battle.
Our sailers also landed in an Iland next adioyning to our ships, where they burnt and spoiled all they found.
As a result of this series of French Decrees and British Orders in Council,[2] the English took 194 of our ships, and the French almost as many.
Great Britain held that she might seize any kind of food going to a French port in our ships.
She claimed the right to stop any of our ships on the sea, send an officer on board, force the captain to muster the crew on the deck, and then search for British subjects.
But it said nothing about the impressment of our sailors, or about the right of our ships to go where they pleased, and was so bad in general that Jefferson would not even send it to the Senate.
The Americans fled at his approach, and Captain Hammond then sailed up the Delaware, broke the chevaux-de-frise, and made a gap wide enough to admit the largest of our ships of war.
And, to provide for every occurrence, to make sure of a safe and easy passage to our ships of war in the Tagus, there was in the rear of the second line a shorter, closer line, to protect the embarkation of our troops.
And the said Henry Lane to be charged with all such goods as we shall discharge there out of our ships, according to our Inuoyces.
Then I sent a man a shoare to know some newes, and to see whether they would heare any thing of our ships [Marginal note: Which were the Bona Esperanza, the Bona confidentia and the Philip and Marie.
Our ships, as darkness came on, had all hoisted their distinguishing lights, by a signal from the admiral.
But what a shame it is to consider how two of our ships' companies did desert their ships for fear of being taken by their boats, our little frigates being forced to leave them, being chased by their greater!
A light fawn-coloured or white cotton cloth, almost exclusively worn at one time in our ships on the India station.
A sort of gun supplied of old to our ships, with dice of iron as the missile.
The American Government can not too strongly express its appreciation of the abounding and generous hospitality shown our ships in every port they visited.
Every power engaged in war will know the strength of our naval power, the number of our ships of each class, their condition, and the promptitude with which we may bring them into service, and will pay due consideration to that argument.
Our ships must be assembled in squadrons actively cruising away from harbors and never long at anchor.
The so-called 'secondary base' is a place at which it is intended to keep in store coal and other articles in the hope that when war is in progress the supply of our ships may be facilitated.
They would continue to need defending even if our ships ceased to draw supplies from it, because the communications of the garrison must be kept open.
Nearly every article of naval stores of all classes has to be brought to our bases by sea, just as much as if it were brought direct to our ships.
There is one also dead out of one of our ships at Deptford, which troubles us mightily; the Providence fire-ship, which was just fitted to go to sea.
I thence to the Coffee-house, there but little company, and so home to the 'Change, where I hear of some more of our ships lost to the Northward.
Now that it hath pleased God to send us safe to our ships, it is time to leave Guiana to the sun, whom they worship, and steer away towards the north.
It is further true that we were about four hundred miles from our ships, and had been a month from them, which also we left weakly manned in an open road, and had promised our return in fifteen days.
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