The herald., 1898-05-22
HAURNR HARB0R
AND ITS REMARKABLE RESEMBLANCE
IN CONTOUR AND FoRTIFICAT1oNS TO
MOBILE BY.
Farraguts Brilliant Feat in Running the Forts and Tor
pedoes Was the Example Which Dewey
Followed at Manila.
MAY BE REPEATED AT HAVANA

conflict. Send down all your superfluous
spars and rigging. Trice up or remove
the whiskers. Put up the splinter nets
on the starboard side, and barricade
the wheel and steersmen with sails and
hammocks. Lay chains or sandbags
on the deck over the machinery, to re-
sist a plunging fire. Hang the sheet
chains over the side, or make any other
arrangement for security that your In
genuity may suggest. Land your star
board boats, or lower and tow them on
port side and lower the port boats
down to the waters edge. Place
quarter boat, or the one most conven-
lent to the commander.
The vessels will run past the forts
in couples. dashed side by side, as here
matter designated.
THE FLAG SHIP,
changed at request of commander, will
lead and steer from Sand Island N.
by e. by compass, until abreast of Fort
Morgan; then N. W. half N. until past
the Middle Ground, then N. by w. and
the others as designated in the draw
ing, will follow in due order, until or
dered to anchor; but the bow and
quarter line must be preserved. to give
the chase guns fair range; and each
vessel must be kept astern of the broad
side Of the next ahead; each vessel will
keep a very little on the starboard
quarter of his next ahead, and, when
abreast of the Fort, win keep directly
astern and, as we pass the Fort, will
take the same distance on the port
quarter of the next ahead, to enable
the stern guns to fire clear of the next
vessel astern.
1t will be the object of the Admiral
to get as close to the Fort as possible
before opening fire; the ships, however
will open fire the moment the enemy
opens upon us, with their chase and
other guns, as fast as they can. be
brought to bear. Use short fuses for
the shell and shrapnell, and as soon as
within 300 or 400 yards, give them
grape. 1t is understood that hereto
fore we have fired too high, but, with
grape shot it is necessary to elevate q
little above the object, as grape will
dribble from the muzzle Of the gun.
If one or more of the vessels be dis
abled, their partners must carry them
through, If possible, but If they cannot,
then the next astern must render the
required assistance; but as the Adj
miral contemplates moving with the
flood tide. it will only require sufficient
power to keep the crippled vessels in
the channel. Carry low steam.
Vessels that can, must place guns
upon the poop and top-gallant fore
castle, and in the tops on the starboard
side. Should the enemy fire grape, they
will remove the men from the top-gal-
liant forecastle and poop, to the guns
below until out Of grape range. The
Howitzers must keep up a constant
fire from the time they can reach with
shrapnell until out Of its range. Il
D. G.. FARRAGUT. Rear Admiral,
Commanding w. G. B. Squadron.
HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT.
1t was three o'clock in -the morning
of the memorable August 5th, 1884, when
Admiral Farragut awoke from a sound
slumber and asked How is the wind?"
"Sou- Sou West" was the answer. He
determined then to proceed to the at
tack at once. Nearly all the crews Of
the various vessels had remained up all
night in the expectancy of beginning
the attack in the morning.
At 4:30 the signal was given from
the flagship to get under way, and the
fleet made toward the distant forts in
a we'll defined order of battle. The
wooden ships were dashed together in
couples and advanced in columns, the
Brooklyn and Octorara leading with
Farragut's flagship, the Hartford, and
the Metacomet following, and close
after them the Richmond and Port
Royal. The four ironclads in single file
steamed abreast Of the leaders on the
starboard side, standing between the
fleet and Fort Morgan, the monitors
being so low in the water as to allow
the wooden ships to fire above them.
Never was a fleet more Handicapped.
Fort Morgan on the right, Fort Gaines
on the left, fleet Of Confederate YES
sells dead ahead and the bay and en-
trance filled with torpedoes. A narrow
passage not over q hundred yards wide
had been left unobstructed by piles and
torpedoes for the use of the blockade
RUNNERS, and through this narrow
passage Farragut had determined to
take his fleet.
THE FIRST SHOT.
The first shot Of the battle was fired
by the leader Of the monitors, the Te-
cumseh, at Fort Morgan. Later the
fort opened fire on the Brooklyn, and
wounded Ensign Cassel, a messmate Of