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...George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered to chart the passage betw...

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...your own sweat. You live on an income which your father earned. You are like a frigate bird swooping down upon the boobies and robbing them of the fish...

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...imensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the `rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would... ...arsenals were opened to Commander Farragut, who hastened the arming of his frigate; but, as it always happens, the moment it was decided to pursue the... ...ped a telegram on its pas- sage and was making the most of it. So when the frigate had been armed for a long campaign, and provided with formidable fi... ...enterprise might be hazardous in pursuit of an animal capable of sinking a frigate as easily as a nutshell. Here there was matter for reflection even ... ... who is pretty wide-awake.” Our luggage was transported to the deck of the frigate immediately. I hastened on board and asked for Com- mander Farragut... ...ncoln had been well chosen and equipped for her new destination. She was a frigate of great speed, fitted with high-pressure engines which admitted a ... ...t to grapple with this gigantic cetacean. The interior arrangements of the frigate corresponded to its nautical qualities. I was well satisfied with m... ...oln to the pier of Brooklyn. So in a quarter of an hour, perhaps less, the frigate would have sailed without me. I should have missed this extraordina... ...gut. CHAPTER IV NED LAND CAPTAIN FARRAGUT was a good seaman, worthy of the frigate he commanded. His vessel and he were one. He was the soul of it. On...

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...t times, on account of her superior sailing qualities, in the ab- sence of frigates, despatched on separate duty as a scout and at times on less tempo... ...s now about to be narrated. Elsewhere it has been said that in the lack of frigates (of course better sailers than line-of-battle ships) in the Englis... ...h she unexpectedly came in sight of a ship of the enemy. It proved to be a frigate. The latter perceiving thro’ the glass that the weight of men and m...

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... give you a look in and see how you get on.” The Dido was one of the smart frigates on the China station—and five-and- thirty years make a big slice o...

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... these captures. But Gaspar Ruiz refused to treat with us. Then an English frigate proceeded to the bay, and her captain, doctor, and two lieutenants ... ...ed Spanish officer,’ he added in a calm voice. “The captain of the English frigate then took the opportunity to inform him gently that Lima had fallen...

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... was a tavern; every quid of tobacco used by one of her sailors would supply a frigate's crew for three years; a dram of grog was composed of seventee... ...le array. Seven men-of- war of the first class led the way, followed by eleven frigates and over forty smaller vessels, the force on board consisting ... ...ank was confirmed by the admiralty, and he was appointed to the command of the frigate Mercury, and attached to the squadron sent out to co- operate w...

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...e President (drill-ship, then, of the Naval Reserve), used to lie with her frigate side rub- bing against the stone of the quay, above all these hulls... ...d judge of what was expected in those days from men and ships. A brilliant frigate captain, a man of sound judgment, of dashing brav- ery and of seren... ...f our nation.” These are his words, and they are true. The dash- ing young frigate captain, the man who in middle age was nothing loth to give chase s...

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...ange faces they do not know whom to trust. Leaves of Grass –Whitman 80 Our frigate takes fire, The other asks if we demand quarter? If our colors ar...

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..., the guns of which are so big that they only stand on one deck, whereas a frigate would have them on two decks, and a line-of-battle ship on three. O... ...ttle ships there will, I suppose, soon be none, as the “Warrior” is only a frigate. We went over the “Pensacola,” and I must say she was very nice, pr... ...o the hands of the President for four years; or the presence of an English frigate in the St. Juan channel might be held to do so. I say that such a t...

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...urs. It was all about himself, and the Peruvian government, and the Dublin frigate, and Lord James Townshend, and President Jackson, and the ship ... ...nd successor Riho Riho, who died in England, and was brought to Oahu in the frigate Blonde, Captain Lord Byron, and whose funeral he remembered perf... ...s said he was no shipmate. He had been a petty officer on board the British frigate Dublin, Capt. Lord James Townshend, and had great ideas of his o... ... which is one of the short- est on record. There, they left the Brandywine frigate, and other smaller American ships of war, and the English frigat... ... and the forecastle was the ‘‘betweendecks,’’ as high as the gun deck of a frigate; being six feet and a half, under the beams. These between decks ... ...boat’s crew of the Ayacucho said that when they left Callao, a large French frigate and the American frigate Brandywine, which were lying there, we... ... were lying there, were going outside to have a battle, and that the English frigate Blonde was to be umpire, and see fair play. Here was important n... ...th time, the story of his coming ashore at New York, from the Constellation frigate, after a cruise of four years round the Horn,—being paid off with... ... twice, and they were all glad enough to see the last of it. The Brandywine frigate, also, in her passage round, had sixty days off the Cape, and los...

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...l him—or wants us to buy him. Ha! I think she wants us to send a couple of frigates, and threaten bombard- ment of the capital, if they don’t take her...