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THE PITCH OF THE CAPE. Ere the calm had yet left us, a sail had been discerned from the fore-top-mast-head, at a great distance, probably three leagues or more. At first it was a mere speck, altogethe
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THE PITCH OF THE CAPE. Ere the calm had yet left us, a sail had been discerned from the fore-top-mast-head, at a great distance, probably three leagues or more. At first it was a mere speck, altogethe
CABLE AND ANCHOR ALL CLEAR. And now that the white jacket has sunk to the bottom of the sea, and the blessed Capes of V…
THE LAST OF THE JACKET. Already has White-Jacket chronicled the mishaps and inconveniences, troubles and tribulations o…
SMOKING-CLUB IN A MAN-OF-WAR, WITH SCENES ON THE GUN-DECK DRAWING NEAR HOME. There is a fable about a painter moved by …
THE MANNING OF NAVIES. “The gallows and the sea refuse nothing,” is a very old sea saying; and, among all the wondrous …
THE SOCIAL STATE IN A MAN-OF-WAR. Bur the floggings at the gangway and the floggings through the fleet, the stealings, …
FLOGGING THROUGH THE FLEET. The flogging of an old man like Ushant, most landsmen will probably regard with abhorrence.…
OLD USHANT AT THE GANGWAY. The rebel beards, headed by old Ushant’s, streaming like a Commodore’s bougee , now stood in…
THE REBELS BROUGHT TO THE MAST. Though many heads of hair were shorn, and many fine beards reaped that day, yet several…
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