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The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
w, another at the quarter, and the third in the middle, in a horizontal line. Every tongue cried that he was firing at the wrong ship; but nothing availed, he passed round, firing into the Richard, head, stern and broadside, killing several of the best men, and delivering various shots under water, with the view of sinking the vessel. All Jones's officers concur with their commander in his statement of the conduct of the Alliance. If now we turn to the report of the British commander (Captain Person) of the Serapis, we find him stating that he fought Jones, with the muzzles of the guns in the two ships touching each other, from half-past 8 till half-past 10 P. M., during which time, from the great quantity and variety of combustible matter which Jones threw in upon his decks, chains, and, in short, into every part of the ship, the Serapis was on fire no less than ten or twelve times in different parts of the vessel. "At the same time, the largest of the two frigates kept sailing rou