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Cary (search for this): chapter 6.47
he gentlest of breezes by the headway of the vessel, promised a happy entrance into the broad Atlantic. Man proposes but God disposes. The night was not half spent ere the wind blew and the storm arose, and at the dawn of day the Stonewall was contending against a gale and heavy sea, well calculated to test the sea-worthiness of the little craft, and try the faith of the stoutest heart in her capacity to weather the storm. Battened down, she was water-tight, and, although she was no Mother Cary's chicken to gracefully dance on the crest of waves, would, in her lazy way, receive them over her bows, in cataract form, and give them free exit through the quarter ports to their mother ocean. Romantic as this may seem, though not comparable to the grandeur of the Falls of Niagara, it was neither exhilirating nor agreeable; for, apart from these too frequent and overwhelming, visitations, the officers and men began to look upon them as an imposition, in compelling them to appear on deck b
Thomas J. Page (search for this): chapter 6.47
The career of the Confederate Cruiser Stonewall. By Captain Thomas J. Page, C. S. N. [The history of the Confederate vessels which, despite great obstacles, made themselves the terror and the scourge of the merchant marine of the United States, and forced her powerful navy to treat them with respect, would form a most interesting chapter in the true story of our great struggle. The career of the Stonewall was a glorious one, and our readers will thank us for the interesting narrative of the gallant Captain Page.] In presenting this blurred picture of the Stonewall, its imperfections should be attributed more to the shortcomings of the artist than to the absence of intrinsic worth in the subject represented. The Stonewall, a small twin-screw ironclad man-of-war, was built in France by the then most eminent constructor in the Empire. Her tonnage, twelve hundred; armament, one three-hundred pounder and two seventy-pounder guns, and crew about forty men. Thus equipped, t
Jack (search for this): chapter 6.47
st a severe gale. To run the risk of being wrecked on the iron-bound coast of Spain, should the hoped for port not be reached, was preferable to being swamped in the Bay of Biscay. From the best data available, under the circumstances, an imaginary position was assigned the vessel and a course determined upon, which it was hoped would lead into some safe anchorage; for any port in a storm is a sailor's snug harbor. Trusting to that little cherub that sits up aloft and keeps watch on poor Jack, the helm was put hard up, the close-reefed fore topsail sheeted home, and the little craft went off before the wind like a thing of life and proudly said to the foaming seas, follow me. They did follow, as though frantic to get on board, but however given to taking them in over the bows, the Stonewall refused them admittance over the stern. To scud so small an ironclad so little above the water's edge was a dangerous evolution, but necessity makes its own laws, and this was one of those ca
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