Identifier: navalhistoryofun02abbo (find matches)
Title: The naval history of the United States
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934
Subjects: United States -- History, Naval To 1900
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: University of Massachusetts, Boston
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Massachusetts, Boston

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oadsidesfrom the American. She drifted helplessly before the wind, and soonrounded near Crab Island. On the island was a hospital, and an aban-loned battery mounting one six-pound gun. Some of the convalescentutients, seeing the enemys vessel within range, opened fire upon herrom the battery, and soon forced her to haul down her flag. Nearlyhalf her crew were killed or wounded. Almost at the same moment, theJnited States ioop Preble was forced out of the fight by the British BLUE-JACKETS OF 1812. 459 gunboats, that pressed so fiercely upon her that she cut her cables anddrifted inshore. The Ticonderoga fought a gallant fight throughout. After riddingherself of the Finch, she had a number of the British gunboats tocontend with ; and they pressed forward to the attack with a gallantrythat showed them to be conscious of the fact, that, if this vessel couldbe carried, the American line would be turned, and the day won by theEnglish. But the American schooner fought stubbornly. Her gallar.
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HIRAM PAULDING FIRES THE GUNS. commander, Lieut. Cassin, walked up and down the taffrail, heedless oithe grape and musket-balls that whistled past his head, pointing outto the gunners the spot whereon to train the guns, and directing themto load with canister and bags of bullets when the enemy cam-near. The gunners of the schooner were terribly hampered in theirwork by the lack of matches for the guns ; for the vessel was new, and theabsence of these very essential articles was unnoticed until too late. Theguns of one division were fired throughout the fight by Hiram Paulding, 460 BLUE-JACKETS OF 1812. a sixteen-year-old midshipman, who flashed his pistol at the priming of theguns as soon as aim was taken. When no gun was ready for his services,he rammed a ball into his weapon and discharged it at the enemy. Theonslaught of the British was spirited and determined. Often they pressedup within a boat-hooks length of the schooner, only to be beaten back byher merciless fire. Sometimes so

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