Identifier: tragedyofseasors01ellm (find matches)
Title: The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Ellms, Charles
Subjects: Shipwrecks
Publisher: Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: Boston, W. J. Reynolds & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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her, and finding her in as leaky and helpless a state as the Pique, they separated. The fourth vessel promptly rendered assistance,and towed round the Piques head so as to put her before the wind ; she had then been lying some hours in the trough of the sea, and attempts had in vain been made to get her into the position desired ; but no sooner had the brig puther in that position, than the Pique shot ahead, and thereby frustrated any further assistance from the brig, which could not keep way with her. To be ready for the worst, the boats were made as seaworthy as possible; a quantity of pork was cooked and coopered up in small casks, as were also bread, water, and spirits; and to ease the laboring of the ship, four additional guns were thrown overboard in the Atlantic. No words can describe the admirable conduct of the crew during all this difficulty and danger; they worked hard and diligently; they saw that promptitude only could preserve the ship and their lives, and they had confidence in their... Extricating the frigate Pique from her perilous situation on the rocks of Labrador where she lost her keel; September 1835 See page 226
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20 230 THE PERILS OF THE FRIGATE PIQUE. officers. The self-command of Captain Rous, throughout the whole, was preeminent, and had such a moral influence over the subordinates, that his orders were at once understood and obeyed; indeed, the safety of the ship mainly depended upon the exercise of great coolness and decision. The Pique was taken into dock on the 20th October, and the crowds of people who visited the yard, to inspect her bottom, was astonishing. She has lost her false keel en-tirely, and, upon an average, eight inches of her keel aregone fore and aft. The most considerable damage, how-ever, is forward; her stem and fore-foot being completely gone, leaving the apron and stemson exposed; and the planking forward, where it is rabbeted into the solid stem,is left wholly unsupported; close to the keel, on the larboard side, just aft the foremast, is a terrific place, of about thirteen feet in circumference, where she must have ground against a rock, the centre of which has rubbed thro

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