Show I 1 AR adv II 11 1 6 I bai a ia I 1 united states slate iffa r WASP I 1 IF U S S wasp had a transient I 1 glor glory y about her unit that waa mas almost model n she flitt bitted ed into being in april 1811 1814 a and nil buzzed out during the fall of the same sati there acer y your cea w was ros a first was wasp awa in n t the h e v var a er of 1 this second hemond oue oce was s s smaller n ia il but butter bette r bu baillie illie iler her tons mad her little more than on an overgrown yacht slie site was armed with 20 sawed off 32 and a pair ot of lean 12 pound ers cutting loose all toge together she could hurt hurl the tremendous broadside of pounds of metal oro or about bolit the we weight ight of one modern S 8 inch shelf 1 captain johnnie Johnn le blakeley blaksley Blak cley took her out ut on may 1 1814 lie he wasted aasted no time but headed straight tor for the english channel in six weeks he load had cleaned up enough prizes to retire on a chick ed farm tai u but johnnie was not the retiring kind or oi we I 1 s hould nt have named one of our late destroyers after him on june 23 28 it II M N S reindeer hove in sight with pertinacity the wasp perched on oil tile reindeers Rein ReInd deers Lers haunch and stung her venomously but the ReI reindeer was 1 known as the pride iride of portsmouth so she bucked and kicked and fetched other vicious efforts to dislodge her adversary I 1 ter iier skipper capt william manners leaped into the alie rag rigging ging and gallantly pro promulgated ul at a boarding party over the rail ot of the wasp which had come alon along sides roll followed owed a unanimous and suo sui cess ful prohibition movement amongst the americans bill manners and GT of ills his crew and officers were killed or wounded the ships clerk was vlas tile the only officer left to surrender thence the wasp sailed to france to recoup she did it so well that soon after leaving port she attacked a convoy of ten vessels escorted by tile 71 74 gun tin of the iane armada with sentimental partiality she cut out the brig mary clip captured Lured valuable military stores and escaped with her blood still up she tell fell in with 11 II M 1 S avon after a running fight of two hours in the darkness of night the enemy surrendered the avons ma mainsail insall fell over her after guns and blanketed their fire at the moment the surrendered several more of the enemy hove up over the horizon capt blakeley prudently beat it on sept 21 the brig atlanta was taken she waa avas the fifteenth prize october 9 the wasp fell in with a swedish brig and was reported for the last time she was never seen nor heard of again DEVIATION I 1 CANT vouch for this tale I 1 if I 1 could if theresann theres there sany any vouching to be done a sailor mut must save it for ills his own tales to the nautical leal raconteur truth Is an abortion of scientific intrigue calculated to put the bug on romance find and adventure it is true however that a compass needle doodle Is of weak and vacillating character let so much as a batty bally hunk of low caste iron approach the binnacle bowl and our high priced guide becomes a creature of decidedly easy virtue the needle abandons its straight and narrow north south line and submits to the magnetic charms of a baser metal deviation Is the name of tile needles sin on a steel vessel each commiss com piss points out 0 of true though magnets are arranged about it to for action of surrounding metal there Is always a C small error this error Is de deviation lotion vitally important to a skipper Is it to know the amount of error also must lie he be familiar with what nearby beams and braces cause most of it for instance one of the canadian patrols so the tale goes lind had a wooden cargo boom secured jut just forN forward lard of her bridge the heel fitting on tile the boorn boom was of steel so near the steering in compass was mas this piece that nhon a gille gale swept the forecastle clear taking boom and all there was some 12 degrees doi ices change cli singe in ili the compass error perhaps it was youth or maybe optimism in the captain that kept him film front from worrying or it may have been that ili he was bound up lip to sydney ills his home port or it may even anve e 1 been een that lie he was goina to see his wife I 1 some s sailors a 1101 s R are re that way at any ruto rate lie he kept ou on in spite of rain and fog and snow find and sleet no moon nor sun nor stars stairs to gulda buldo him ills his lead dead re reckoning owning had to to do ile he crawled into it a hole in the lie wall a harbor Is like lik c in thick weather and it was late lie he went somehow the dock looked un famil ar the street beyond curved the X rong way certainly there was something thin queer about the lights suddenly lie he encountered a woman it was his wife but why should she have her new suit on as lie he discerned by y the glow of a shop window what are you doing here she ex es Sl almed home of course she led him into d said at 6 ango strange thin im people in ills head 9 to t 0 remember it lie tai IN 0 11 of moore grog 04 at the ten ren minutes jl he sat ta in to ilL trance ealam A then anif sonnee someone 11 a ill johns 0 h n s ile he J leaped to ill it boom 0 0 m t the he 3 V feel coronas it cried led 1 ats N 1 l and they thought h ahns are I 1 t was s his hi compass compass in crazy I 1 but I 1 b looney hd ile he had missed ulasse 4 4 esda throe three hundred nilles miles el aln IJ BON HOMME richan N OLD L r aa A 3 OU ddt adt k city 1 she yes aut la 11 I 1 tle tie with a bucket it aa hr she wits the fl achill J P at who was by for advel that pirate I 1 i john paul j jone ones 4 liamor the almanac b a published by 1 B franklin the a tea batters lat sarf lat rance made it pa possible isible for A to fit ct out it a squadrons squal ron at lira against tile british Fri tish va in the summer of 1779 ali con can men of war crossed cros wi command after ra painting tit the SM coast red they fell la in with 63 foj fleet for rather obscure giai two ships chose to engage n ill and the hie U S S richard ISIc liard the british was a first ya of the iane valle the ile ral old converted indiaman Ind laman faman thesa thel could throw COO pounds of 0 fu to the richards poun cai m I 1 were of nearly equal size SIM I 1 at the first broadside the eldri IF big IS 18 burst and som cat E their crews along the beels decus oro it them on the head besides this disaster the so ils cross jones tow bow andru him fore and aft illitch in th it inas as as good as a home na hi ninth I 1 inning nning with throe three net men at 01 at this point of the combat cheit captain staged a famous Isid licit est dirl liis ills fatuous inquiry histan Hi Has stat piat struck to which as ercer tse boy knows jones replied 1 b not yet begun to fight so they went at it again wd got all tangled ua lip with ed tt 0 F finally inal I 1 y they just hung tog efte drifted yankee riflemen la in alita drove the british crew beloff sa gummers between decks fired the sides of their own olim 4 ture the en then came a scot a lan lanken with a bucket ile helem uth inith bombs ile he added A PIA pl common combustibles Belill dog the var darra overhanging ati S ile he threw a match into ills als dropped the bucket boim athe hotea neath death and beat it followed a puff and ana a sf big boom fl oil a bang a great this disaster toot took all ill the tl I 1 of the enemy after a few brails the finish came 0 dm the itt richard lehard was 11 fire her deeks decks were gory 6 like sieves but butsy she WO sides bebb i ka l and john paul jones 1 of two continents BATTLE OW do YOU pick a maul wi H bi by his face yea at sometimes ills his actions t thoughts NN lien you are sue his but there 49 like one oe a akk great statesmen I 1 others like T TRe trea 0 to the inser al it is ir it sure isM patte just big b not X waits valts lilli wo while hc h cog all of lum him for rort port s the fleet leaves 00 wor war watches ws a 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