. La storia della nostra Marina dalla sua origine ai giorni nostri, 1775-1897. n ha segregato che il suo equipaggio era stato ucciso inutilmente, ha guarito giù la sua bandiera. Lieut. William H.Allen, sulla Chesapeake, riuscì a sparare una pistola per mezzo di un carbone portato in mani sue bareands dal fuoco di galera, e la palla hulledthe leopardo, ma la bandiera era già giù per la rotaia, e fu fatto solo come una questione di onore. Così l'equipaggio del Chesapeake era musteredon ponte, il luogotenente trionfante restituito, i quattro desertori sono stati impacchettati oltre la coda nella barca britannica, e il Chesapeakewas lasciato, con i suoi morti e wou

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. The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897. n sawthat his crew were being killed uselessly, hehauled down his flag. Lieut. William H.Allen, on the Chesapeake, did manage to fireone gun by means of a coal carried in his barehands from the galley fire, and the ball hulledthe Leopard, but the flag was already down tothe rail, and it was done only as a matter ofhonor. So the crew of the Chesapeake were musteredon deck, the triumphant lieutenant returned, the four deserters were bundled over therail into the British boat, and the Chesapeakewas left, with her dead and wounded, to workher riddled sails in the course back to Norfolk. The Leopard sailed on. The unfortunateJenkin Ratford was hanged at the fore yard-arm, and the three who were acknowledged tobe kidnapped American citizens were sentencedto receive 500 lashes from the cat. And what does the uninformed reader sup- THE HISTORY OF OURNAVY 413 pose the political leaders of the American re-public did about it ? They tore the Eagle fromthe American coat-of-arms and substituted the. Taking Deserters from the Chesapeake. Porcupine—they asked the British govern-ment to disavow the act of Admiral Berkeley, and they ordered the building of 188 moregunboats for harbor defence ! f APPENDIX TO VOLUME I PAY OF NAVAL SEAMEN IN THE FIRST YEAROF THE NAVY AS A NATIONAL ORGANI-ZATION. Commander-in-chief, $125 a month. Officers of aship of twenty guns and upward : captain, $60 ; heuten-ant, $30 ; master, $30 ; surgeon, $25 ; chaplain, $20 ;midshipman, $12 ; gunner, $15 ; searaan, $8. Officers of a ship of ten to twenty guns : captain, $48 ?lieutenant, $24 ; master, $24 ; surgeon, $21.66 ; midship-man, $12; gunner, $13; seaman, $8. The pay of the following was the ^ame in any class ofcruisers: armorer, $15; sailmaker, $12; yeoman, $9;quartermaster, $9 ; quarter-gunner, $& ; coxswain, $g ;cook, $12. Commanders were allowed $4 and $5 a week forrations, and lieutenants, captains of marines, surgeons, and chap

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