On The King's Sea Service: A John Phillips Novel (War At Sea Book 1) - Plot & Excerpts
As they proceeded on course, the lookout reported a sail, hull down. As Vigorous approached, Burns came up to him and said, “Sir, the sail appears to be a local trading brig. She is flying no flag and I think there is a galley on her lee. I think the brig has been taken by a pirate. When the pirate crew realized they had been spotted, they left the prize, tumbled into the galley and set their big lateen sail. At first the pirate angled on the larboard tack toward the North African shore. The frigate, with a following wind, was booming right along and started to slowly overhaul the pirate. Phillips thought he might be able to reach the galley with a few of his forward eighteens. He ordered the ship cleared for action, then, with good men on the starboard guns, told the gun captains on the two forward eighteens to each try a ranging shot. The most forward gun on each beam was a thirty six pounder carronade. These guns were enormously powerful but their effective range was not great.
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