American state papers : documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States ... . To work the blunderbusses, in case of need, two mariners should be placedij] the bow, two in the stern; each of those men to be provided with a horse pistol and cutlass, and each oarsman acutlass, in case of coming to close quarters with a boat of the enemy. f 1 harpooner, I 1 bowman. Total of Boats Crew,-{ 4 marines,G oarsmen. ^Total. 12 men. Such boats would be active, well armed, and, if good men, may be said to be strong handed, and well preparedto make good a retreat, or act on the def
American state papers : documents, legislative and executive, of the Congress of the United States ... . To work the blunderbusses, in case of need, two mariners should be placedij] the bow, two in the stern; each of those men to be provided with a horse pistol and cutlass, and each oarsman acutlass, in case of coming to close quarters with a boat of the enemy. f 1 harpooner, I 1 bowman. Total of Boats Crew,-{ 4 marines,G oarsmen. ^Total. 12 men. Such boats would be active, well armed, and, if good men, may be said to be strong handed, and well preparedto make good a retreat, or act on the defensive, in case of encountering the enemys boats. Figure 2. A is a birds eye view of a vessel at B. her cable; E E. two torpedoes; C D, is their coupling line,about one hundred and twenty feel long; it is here represented touching the cable collapsing, and the torpedoesdlivine by the tide under the vessel. This is the in which the Dorothea, in VValmer roads, and the brig, inNew York harbor, were blown up. 1810.] USE OF THE TORPEDO IN THE DEFENCE OF PORTS, &c. 217 PLATE V F/^. PLATE 1. A sliows a toipeilo, witli the harpoon line fixeil to the centre of its end; when the line is thus fixed, the tidecannot drive tiie torpedo undei- ;i vessel: tor, the pressure of the current being equal on both sides, it will iiang per-pendicular to its suspending box of cork C, figure 2. and remain asat B, where, exploding, it would blow the wate:perpendicular to C, and up the side of the ship; the lateral movement of the water from B to E, would give her asudden cant to one side, but do her no injury. This has been proved by the following practice. On the first of October, 1805, Captain Sicconibe. in a galley with eight men and his coxswain, placed two tor-pedoes in the manner described, plate IV, figure 2, between the buoy and cable of a French gun-brig, in Boulognernails. The tide drove them until they both lay perpendicular to her sides. When the French saw Capt
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