...st and best of American captains. As his ship was struck, Craven was by the foot of the ladder leading up to the open deck, from which he could escape. The pilot came running to get out that way; Craven stepped back, saying, After you, pilot, and went down with his ship. The pilot lived to record this act, more noble than Sydney's. Eight of the Tecumseh's men were out on her deck when she went...