There is, therefore, no doubt that a neutral prize may no longer be destroyed because the captor cannot spare a prize crew or because a port of a Prize Court is too far distant, or the like.
So Dave ordered a launch cleared away, with a prize crew armed to the teeth, Ensign Andrews in command.
However, if it came to taking a prize crew on board, we thought we knew how to deal with them.
I counted that if we should be caught and a prize crew put on board of us, within the twenty-four hours we could find ways and means of dealing with our uninvited guests, and recapturing our ship.
Her captor left the Americans aboard their own craft, and, putting a prize crew aboard, ordered them to follow in the wake of the frigate.
The "Atlanta" he manned with a prize crew, and sent to Boston; but she unluckily fell in with a British cruiser in Massachusetts Bay, and was retaken.
So without even asking the name of the captured vessel, Barney hastily threw a prize crew aboard, ordered her to proceed to Philadelphia, and himself remained behind to cover the retreat.
Putting a prize crew on the "Fox," the three vessels continued their cruise.
Blackbeard was rowed off to his own ship, the Revenge, leaving his sailing-master and a prize crew.
They were plied with eager questions regarding the fate of the merchant ship and Ned Rackham's prize crew.
The cutter was thereupon lowered and manned, and a prize crew went on board to take possession, little Summers himself also going with the party.
I was put in charge, with a prize crew of eight men, to take her into Malta; and I also carried a despatch for the admiral on the station.
Next morning I made arrangements to put a prize crew on board the Savannah and send her to New York, and I directed the Captain of the Joseph to take passage in her.
On Sunday afternoon, the 2d of June, she sailed from opposite Fort Sumter, her crew numbering about twenty men, all of whom are here with the exception of six, who were detached to form a prize crew of the brig Joseph.
The next morning I made arrangements to put a prize crew on board the Savannah, and send her to New York, and I directed the Captain of the Joseph to take passage in her.
The Savannah was then taken in charge by a prize crew from on board the Perry and brought to New York.
This was hard work for the prize crew, for the few Frenchmen left on board, though they did not refuse to go to the pumps, worked listlessly, and very soon knocked off, declaring that they could work no more.
The boats of the French frigate were too much knocked about to float, and it took us some time to remove the prisoners and send a prize crew on board.
Our next business was to take possession of the brig, which we did forthwith, Christie, with eight hands, going on board her as a prize crew.
The next morning I sent a prize crew on board the Bradford, and determined to send her to New Orleans.
The same afternoon we fell in with a small prize to the squadron in the Chesapeake, a dismasted schooner, manned by a prize crew of a midshipman and six men.
They were at once taken possession of, and ordered to make the best of their way in charge of a prize crew to Cienfuegos.
After putting a prize crew on board this last capture, Lieutenant Downes had but ten men left in the Georgiana, and, including the wounded, he held seventy-three prisoners.
He was taken on board the Helena and a prize crew of a dozen sailors and sixteen marines, under Ensigns M.
The Newport was close at hand at the time, and a prize crew made up from both ships brought the capture in.
It was taken by the Newport off Mariel, and was brought in by a petty officer and a prize crew.
Ensign Marble led a prize crew, consisting of a file of marines and seamen.
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