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Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 30: (search)
lonial cruisers, during the war of 1776 Benjamin Franklin and Silas Deane, as chiefs of a naval Bun history are familiar with the names of Benjamin Franklin, Silas Deane, and John Adams, for these ging in with her several prizes, and having Dr. Franklin on board as a passenger. It is well known of the Confederate States, went to work. Dr. Franklin, in particular, was a great favorite with tll found that the philosophers who had petted Franklin, and the fair women who had played with the tal Bureau which was conducted in France, by Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane, who were stationed agents aval Bureau in Paris, under the guidance of Dr. Franklin and Silas Deane. As soon as the seizure ofl, the ship, as we have seen, which carried Dr. Franklin over to France. The Reprisal, having refit We see how capitally those stational agents, Franklin and Deane, were conducting that Naval Bureaubetween the Bon homme Richard, (named after Dr. Franklin's Poor Richard, in the almanac, of which th[3 more...]
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 40: (search)
the rest of the night. We found the current setting into the passage, to be as much as two and a half knots per hour, which was greater than I had ever known it before. I may take this occasion to remind the reader, that the old theory of Dr. Franklin and others, was, that the Gulf Stream, which flows out of the Gulf of Mexico, between the north coast of Cuba, and the Florida Reefs and Keys, flows into the Gulf, through the channel between the west end of Cuba, and the coast of Yucatan, in ry is, that we know positively, from the strength of the current, and its volume, or cross section, in the two passages, that more than twice the quantity of water flows out of the Gulf of Mexico, than flows into it through this passage. Upon Dr. Franklin's theory, the Gulf of Mexico in a very short time would become dry ground. Nor can the Mississippi River, which is the only stream worth noticing, in this connection, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico, come to his relief, as we have seen tha
Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat During the War Between the States, Chapter 44: (search)
ip, among them an ex-New-England parson, the Rev. Franklin Wright, who was going out as Consul to Foo Chow. The Rev. Mr. Wright had been editor of a religious paper for some years, in one of the New England villages, and probably owed his promotion to the good services he had rendered in hurrying on the war. He had Puritan written all over his lugubrious countenance, and looked so solemn, that one wondered how he came to exchange the clergyman's garb for the garb of Belial. But so it was; Franklin was actually going out to India, in quest of the dollars. We deprived him of his Consular seal and commission, though we did not molest his private papers, and of sundry very pretty Consular flags, that had been carefully prepared for him by Mr. Seward, fils, at the State Department, in Washington. I am pained to see, by that little bill of Mr. Seward, pere, against the British Government, for depredations of the Alabama, before referred to, that the Rev. Mr. Wright puts his damages down