The Fight for a Free Sea (1920) Constitution and Guerriere

Identifier: chroniclesameric17john (find matches)
Title: The Chronicles of America series
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Allen, 1870-1931 Lomer, Gerhard Richard, 1882- Jefferys, Charles W. (Charles William), 1869-1951 Nevins, Allan, 1890-1971
Subjects: United States -- History
Publisher: (New Haven, (Conn.) : Yale University Press London, H. Milford, Oxford university press etc.,etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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FRIGATES AND THEIR DUELS 109 as to make an Anglo-Saxon proud that thesefoemen were bred of a common stock. The Wasp had sailed from the Delaware on the13th of October, heading southeast to look for Brit-ish merchantmen in the West India track. Hercommander was Captain Jacob Jones, a namerevived in modern days by a destroyer of theQueenstown fleet in the arduous warfare againstthe German submarines. Shattered by a torpedo,the Jacob Jones sank in seven minutes, and sixty-four of the officers and crew perished, doing theirduty to the last, disciplined, unafraid, so provingthemselves worthy of the American naval serviceand of the memory of the unflinching captainof 1812. The little Wasp ran into a terrific gale whichblew her sails away and washed men overboard.But she made repairs and stood bravely after aBritish convoy which was escorted by the eighteen-gun brig Frolic, Captain Thomas Whinyates. TheFrolic, too, had been battered by the weather, andthe cargo ships had been scattered far a

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