The Armed Ship America; Or, When We Sailed from Salem

The richly laden ship had but whetted the appetite of the men for more, and some of the most sanguine believed we might remain in the midst of the fleet, seizing a vessel here a...

It was only after the gale had died away, and a new topmast had been sent aloft, that we lads came to understand how much mischief or trouble, whichever you choose to term it, m...

Although there was no possibility the _America_ could leave port within ten days, under the most favourable circumstances, Simon Ropes and I presented ourselves on board next mo...

We had partially satisfied our hunger with the contents of the nineteenth pannikin, and had plenty of water close at hand with which to quench our thirst; but even though we had...

It surely seemed as if the possibility of capturing the chase might have kept the men’s thoughts, for a time at least, from those mysterious happenings which had sown the seeds...

When it had been announced that we were at war once more with the British king, I believed that all Englishmen were our sworn enemies, as I held it my duty to be theirs; but bef...

I have made an attempt at describing the general situation on board the _America_ while her crew had nothing more alarming to wag their tongues over than the carrying away of th...

It is not my intention to claim that Simon Ropes, son of that famous mariner, Captain Joseph Ropes, or myself, Nathan Crowninshield, nephew and cousin of the well-known Salem fi...

We stood two or three feet away, much like culprits who had come to beg for pardon, and there waited until the commander of the _America_ chanced to take the glass from his eyes.