She helped the crew over the next few hours. They lowered each sail and soaked it with water, to force the fibers to expand and hold as much wind as possible. After Keelan had done her part, she sat on one of the water barrels and observed as her husband stood with legs braced and called his crew to the mid-deck and proceeded to divulge to them his plan. The men grinned broadly and clapped their hands in approval then listened intently as Gus gave each their instructions. She shaded her eyes and noted that a launch and a small cutter from the Glory continued to take turns lashing the anchor to the boat, rowing ahead to the length of the extended chain then dropping it to wait for the big ship to haul to them by weighing in the anchor. As the Desire had been doing for the past three days, they repeated the entire process. She moved her gaze to the closest British ship. Her stomach twisted; the British ship had also attached an anchor to each end of the hawser, which passed through a pipe on each side of the bow, allowing the crew to warp the ship ahead continuously, one anchor being carried forward while the other held on to the ocean bottom.
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