Tarry at home travels . es ports for supplies, and some are namedas reaching Brest late in November, 1793. Thenext summer, on the celebrated first of June,when Lord Howe l3eat the French squadron offUshant, she was taken into the British navy andnamed the Impetueux. This change was madebecause they had already an America. TheFrench ship Impetueux, which had been taken NEW HAMPSHIRE 79 at Ushant, had been burned at Portsmouth,England, and her name Impetueux was given tothis larger America in commemoration of theFrench ship. As UImpetueux she became a favorite shipin the English told m
Tarry at home travels . es ports for supplies, and some are namedas reaching Brest late in November, 1793. Thenext summer, on the celebrated first of June,when Lord Howe l3eat the French squadron offUshant, she was taken into the British navy andnamed the Impetueux. This change was madebecause they had already an America. TheFrench ship Impetueux, which had been taken NEW HAMPSHIRE 79 at Ushant, had been burned at Portsmouth,England, and her name Impetueux was given tothis larger America in commemoration of theFrench ship. As UImpetueux she became a favorite shipin the English told me at theAdmiralty thatwhen Lord Ex-mouth (Sir EdwardPellew) was to com-mand the fleet, hechose UImpetueuxas his flagship. All this I havesaid in such detailbecause the late , in his invalu-able life of Paul Jones, had been misled. Hesays that King Louis changed the name of ourAmerica into the Franklin. Now, the Franklinwas the ship captured at Aboukir by Lord was considered the finest two-deck ship in. John Paul the original miniature in tlieUnited States Naval Institute, An-napolis, Md. 80 TAKRY AT HOME TRAVELS the world, but she is not our America. And it is apity that this mistake should have worked itsway into literature. Our American Impetueuxis sometimes rated as a seventy-four-gun shipand sometimes as seventy-eight. But poor Paul Jones was left lamenting be-cause we wanted to make a present to ourillustrious ally. In my own earlier days, camping for a nightunder a white pine and an open sky, I rememberan old forester told me that he had seen thebroad arrow of King George on pines in thatforest which were too far from water to be carriedto the Merrimac. I think it quite likely thatsome old Appalachian may find King Georgesbroad arrow at this day. The Appalachian Club of New England is anexcellent club. Semiramis says that it is theonly club in Boston which has a real raisondetre. Perhaps this is true. Anyway, it bringstogether young men and m
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