It was some little time before the privateer recovered from the surprise and confusion occasioned by this unexpected manoeuvre; and, by the time her yards were trimmed and sails set, the Dolphin had again a good start of her.
The privateer was gaining upon us slowly but surely, when the night, which, fortunately for us, was dark and gloomy, set in.
At last the captain of the privateer got into a towering passion, and swore he would sink her when he got alongside.
As the privateer had anticipated, the moment the brig rounded to, her foretopsail and topgallantsail, already in tatters, blew clean out of the bolt-ropes.
The privateer captain was just putting the trumpet to his lips, when Captain Driver bawled out, "Put the helm hard a-starboard!
The Hercule was considered the fastest privateer out of France; but, before the wind, the brig was evidently gaining upon us.
This game could not last long;--the privateer determined upon trying another move.
As soon as the privateer ceased firing, the smothered sound of three cheers came faintly up the hatchway from our poor fellows in the hold, who rightly judged the result of the action.
Hawk, and the officers of the privateer surrendered their swords to the lieutenant in command; who, on receiving them, complimented the privateer's men highly on their gallant defence.
The water was still tolerably smooth, and the wind was a little on our starboard quarter; the privateer was coming up rather to leeward, gaining rapidly upon us, and peppering away as fast as she could with her bow-chasers.
A sailor before the mast he had been since his sixteenth year, and he had appeared on the books of the privateer brig Teaser as John Vance, A.
The littleprivateer Rattler (of which he was owner and commander) had sent home no less than twenty vessels that had been snapped up when almost under the guns of England's coastwise fortresses.
He was an expert at tying knots already, and he had learned to hand, reef, and steer after a fashion on board the privateer schooner.
The privateer Dolphin, also hailing from Baltimore, was taken after the same heroic defence, and Admiral Warren must have found such work to be rather uncomfortable experience.
Scarcely had the canvas of the Ajax begun the ominous fluttering that showed the change of the wind's direction, than the privateer swung off to meet it.
For an hour and a half the privateer stood them off, and before she was finally captured, she had killed more of the enemy than her own crew numbered!
The privateer Decatur under command of Captain Divon, after a long and severe fight, captured a schooner of the English service that mounted fifteen guns--over twice as many as the Decatur carried.
The General Armstrong was a privateer brig outfitted at New York.
His strong constitution and his youth had kept him in a fair state of health for one who had been so long in close confinement, for he had been captured in a privateer in the first year of the war.
Next, Dampier was put ashore by the privateer he piloted on the N.
There happened the other day, in the road of Scheveling, an engagement between a privateer of Zealand and one of Dunkirk.
Such a ship, when commissioned as a privateer by the United States government, could capture the enemy's merchantmen and on occasion fight small cruisers.
The American privateer General Armstrong was also cut out and destroyed by the British under the guns of the Portuguese fort at Fayal in the Azores.
The breeze now springing up, and the privateershowing lights, we were enabled to get alongside of her in a couple of hours.
Fortunately, before they grew weary of this sport, to my great joy, the privateer hove in sight.
During the night, we ran along shore, and, in the morning, took on board the privateer the greater part of the prize's cargo.
By this time the privateer had seen our disaster stood boldly in, and anchored within less than gun shot of the beach; they then very foolishly opened a brisk cannonade; but every shot was spent in vain.
Then another difficulty arose; the privateer was out of sight, and the Indians became furious.
Out of employment, he had taken the command of a privateer cutter, when his wife who was excessively fond, would, as he said, follow him with little Billy.
I have sailed in a privateer at least three years, and I know that they have no respect for letters of marque or for privateers.
You have accomplished your orders too well,' said he; 'that privateer is but a poor compensation for the whole French navy.
Are you he who commanded the "Dwarf" privateer in the Isle of France?
The General Armstrong, the famous privateer schooner, Captain Samuel Chester Reid, had anchored there, trusting to the neutrality of the harbor, and was attacked after nightfall by the boats of a strong British squadron.
Bring on your Alabama, and to her we will attend, For we think your boasting privateer Is not so hard to whip; And we'll show you that the Kearsarge is not a merchant ship.
A ship of theirs, called The Edmund and John, on her voyage from Brazil to Lisbon, was seized long ago by a privateer of Flushing, commanded by a Lambert Bartelson.
The most famous achievement was that of the privateer General Armstrong, which carried nine long guns, the largest being 24-pounders, or "long nines.
When only sixteen years old he joined a privateer, and at eighteen was active in the attacks of the Protector on the British privateer Admiral Duff.
When the British admiral discovered the American privateer within the harbor, he placed his own vessels so as to prevent its escape.
From what we hear at the Causeway, we have every reason to think that the pretendedprivateer has been a gentleman's pleasure-vessel.
We have had our guns shotted all this day for fear of the Yankees--a privateer having been seen off Tyree Islands, and taken some vessels--as is reported.
A privateer of Bristol has taken a large Spanish ship, laden with arms and money for Scotland.
Four ships sailed from Corunna; the one that got to Scotland, one taken by a privateer of bristol, and one lost on the Irish coast; the fourth is not heard of.
Avery, pretending that his vessel was a privateer that had missed her mark and was sold by the owners, disposed of her to good advantage, and bought a sloop.
A pardon soon afterwards being issued, the crew surrendered themselves, but Mary Reed sailed for New Providence, and joined a privateer squadron fitting out there against the Spaniards.
They were fitted out to take a Spanish privateer that has been cruising on the coast, and has taken several of our English vessels.
At 3 came in a privateer from Bermudas, Capt Love Com'r, who came here for provisions for himself & his consort, who waited for him there.
This morning the Captain went up to York, and at last agreed with a Doctor who had been in the employ of Capt Cunningham, Com'r of one of the Privateer Sloops that came in the day before.
Cap' of the little Privateer came on board of us to know the reason of the disturbance between his people and ours.
I will drive that privateer away; The ship and the brig will be my prey, For we don't meet prizes every day-- All bound to London Town.
Our second voyage was distinguished by a whole day's fierce fighting with a French privateer off the Caicos Islands, while proceeding peacefully on our way from the newly acquired island of Trinidad to the St. Lawrence.
A privateeras like as no, and we'll have our bite yet, maybe.
He is the most successful privateer in all these waters.
The risks were greater, perhaps, even than on the King's ships, since the privateer hunts alone and may fall easy prey to larger force.
Torode of Herm is the cleverest privateer round here, they say.
The enemy perceiving that the privateer was taken, and the French boats drifting empty up the harbour, now opened their fire upon us, and with great effect.
At ten we hove-to, and about eleven the boats were ordered to haul up, O'Brien repeating his orders to Mr Osbaldistone, not to make the attempt if the privateer were found to be anchored close to the town.
In the meantime, we had observed that the boats had shoved off from the privateer as soon as they had perceived us, and had returned to her laden with men; the boats had been despatched a second time, but had not yet returned.
After pulling ten minutes more, we appeared to be close to the lights in the town; still we could see noprivateer or any other vessel.
We must make out our despatch relative to the cutting out of the Sylvia (that was the name of the privateer brig), and I am happy to say that I shall feel it my duty to make honourable mention of all the party present.
To an almighty pretty French privateer lying in St Pierre's, which had lost her spars when she was chased by one of your brass-bottomed sarpents; and I've a notion they paid pretty handsomely too.
They were now about the same distance from the privateer as were our boats, and it was quite undecided which of us would be first on board.
Dudley told the Board of Trade that the colony was “a receptacle of rogues and pirates;” and the people of Rhode Island renewed their fortifications, and sent out their solitary privateer to cruise against French and Spanish.
For the captivity of a fishery so entirely defenceless, (for not one of the vessels has any arms) a single frigate or privateer of twentyfour or even twenty guns would be quite sufficient.
In the case in question, the Guernsey privateer certainly had a commission from the King of Great Britain, against American vessels at least.
Mr Izard, Minister of the United States for Tuscany, who claims the effects captured in the English ship, the Nile, by the Cesar privateer from Marseilles.
Gentlemen, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the subject of the French ship Isabella, which the American privateer General Mifflin recaptured from a Guernsey privateer.
Frederic Spinola, a volunteer belonging to the great and wealthy Genoese family of that name, had been performing a good deal of privateer work with a small force of galleys which he kept under his command at Sluys.
