Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-27

ShroUo2s WNSW auo tOuS uVas, ""AS.a Oe'"S
done the shipTighted ,.beiug iull Of water,
her matches of, chests, water casks, &c.
drifting amongst the wreck; the guns, an
.Shors, csmboose, and every article upon
ssleck, we hove overheard TO tighten the ship,
snri tndeaVored 10 clear the. wreck Of spars,
sY;;Eseina, &c. which lay beating against her
! 20 windward ;1but our efforts were 10 vain,
The starboafd 1anrards Of the shEouds being
deep underwatef, and Iasr'to the ship. and
tie sea making continual breach ever her;'
during this time the long boat aybeating
among the wreck ofspars, &c. bottom up,
the pinnaee being wrecked entisrlyto pieces,
except her keel, and aboutthree strea axis OF
che boards Of her .bottotS iay in the same 81.
. tuation as the long boat, and the stern
boat laying nc. a small distance from the
ship, full of water, with her gur.wales torn
of, butts started, and her stern abont
half stove in, it was with the"utmost diff
Guilty that we baled her out, and kept her
So far free as 70 enable Us to get rope fast
to the long boat, by which We hauled the
long boat along side the ship. turned her
over and found her to be badly stove, her
eunwafes aud stem broke entirely of, her
wood ends snd sarberd streak open, and
large holes in her bottom, 50 that'we found
it Impossible to bale her out, and'we were
unGer the necessity of upsetting her again
10 the sea, with hope of being able to stop
a part of the holes in her bottom, which we
| in part effected, by driving too the butts,
and by putting CANVAS, &c: into the largest
holes in her bottom, after which We turned
her over again, and by; continual baiiing
with every bucket, &c. which we could
procure, we were enabled to keep herfrom
sinking, still keeping under the lee of the
ship. BY this time it was about P. M.
when the boat being hauled near to the ship
for the purpose ofgetting canvas and oakum
to stop the leak, as many az could reach
the longboat jumped into her. and finding
the boat would be again sunk it we remaia-
ed so near the ship, we were obliged to
veer the boat to leeward OF the ship at the
+ distance Of IS or 20 fathoms, being II in
number in the boat we had not lain in this
situation bat ashort time before one man
jumped from the ship into the sea, and
made for the boat, we took him into the
boat, and finding at the same time all de.
,ermined TO pursue the same Plaa we weie
obliged to veer the boat further from the
ship. :: We stated to them on board our ST.
tuation, which was also evident to them, as
it required all our exertions to keep the boat
/ from sinking. During the night we lay
with rope fast from the ship to the boat
and under her lee, when the people on
boardthe ship being exceedingly anxious
to get into the boat (Which had they effect
ed we should all have been inevitably LOST
kept hauling the boat towards them; We
then bent another rope and veered out as
they hauled but finding they were deter
mined to sink the boat by getting into her;
we were obliged CATER stating repeaeedly
them our situation) to tell them that pro
vided they persisted in getting into the
boat, we should be obliged, though very
reluctantly, to cut the rope and leave them,
after which they deslsted from hauling the
boat towardsthe ship AT this time we
werets in number in the long boat, besides
two then who were in the stern boatlaying
undershe Ice Of the ship, continually baling
10 keep her from sinking, which augment
ed our number to more thah could with a.
ny degree of safety attensp. to leave the
ship in the long boat ia the shattered cohdi-
ton she was then in. Z, : -"
Monday morning, moderate b:eekes and
sea tolerably smooth : at. which time the
people on the wreck were about halt of the
tafrel rail, and the remainder on the bow
spirit and windlass, every other part of her
being under water, continually, and they
kept entreatihg Us to take them into tho
boat we then told them our determination
was to continue by the ship while she KEEP.
together, and that the boat was not in stu.
alton 70 leave them, notwithstanding our
wretched situation, having neither compass
quadrant or any instrument whatever, by
which we could direct our course, nor a
single drop Of fresh water 10 the boat, and
two meu constantly baiiing; all Of which
circumstances we're known to them.
About this time, casks of brandy and Sc.
vsral other articles of the cargo wore DRIFT