This arrangement was made as we pulled towards the headmost prahu.
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As the headmost boats neared the fort the fire became hotter.
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The headmost ship proved a two-decker of at least fifty guns.
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This medieval bystreet connects the headmost yard and upper yard of the castle.
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This medieval bystreet connects the headmost yard and upper yard of the castle.
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At 10 A.M. the headmost vessel fired a shot, and hoisted a red flag.
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The headmost of the boats was smashed, and was a wreck on the bay.
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The brig, which was the headmost of the two vessels, was now nearly crossing our stern.
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A fine male ostrich being turned by the headmost riders, tried to escape on one side.
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We now began to fire on the headmost ships of the enemy, which were coming on towards us.
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We immediately bore down upon them and about nine got close to the weather quarter of the largest and headmost ship.
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Though he endeavoured to near them, he intended not to make any attack until the Defiance had got abreast of the headmost.
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At noon our headmost ships were pretty near them, and between one and two, the Warspite and Dorsetshire began to fire, and were then abreast of the Cardinal rocks.
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On the afternoon of one of the first days in January 1741, as the fleet was off the west end of Hispaniola, four large ships were sighted. The admiral signalled the Prince Frederick and five other ships of the line to chase. Towards dusk the strangers hoisted French colours, but did not shorten sail, and they were not overtaken till nearly ten o'clock. The Prince Frederick was the headmost ship, and Lord Aubrey hailed the ship he came up with, desiring her to heave to.
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A Baltimore Clipper, very similar to the American vessels captured on the Rappahannock. The largest of the American ships was Arab of over 380 tons but with a crew of only forty-five men, she was sternmost in line and was considered to be the most "war like" of the four. Dolphin of 300 tons was headmost and she was Captain Stafford's flagship, carrying ninety-eight men into battle. When the British came within sight of the American line, they first stopped to wait for the wind and the remaining twelve boats to come up so Polkinghorne took the time to rally his men.
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In the ensuing Battle of the Mona Passage, Valiant found herself the headmost ship, and with most of the other British ships becalmed or chasing other ships, Goodall pressed on sail to catch the Caton, and managed to rake her bows, on which she immediately struck. Goodall did not stop to take possession, but instead pressed on after the fleeing Jason, opening fire on her and fighting a fierce engagement for 45 minutes until the French ship surrendered. Valiant had 12 men killed and wounded in the action. Goodall sailed in July that year to North America with Admiral Hugh Pigot, stopping at New York City between September and October, and taking part in the blockade of Cape François in November.
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At noon their two headmost frigates opened a fire upon the brig, which she returned with her stern-chasers. About half an hour afterwards, the Repulse also commenced firing her stern guns; but finding that the shot of the frigates were passing over the Philomel, Captain Halliday instantly bore up to keep astern of her, and treated them with so heavy and well-directed a fire, that, in the course of a quarter of an hour, they wore, and joined the line-of- battle ships, several of which were also, by this time, far advanced in the chase, By 5 pm the whole of Mons. Baudin's division were again at anchor in the outer road. At the time this daring act was performed by Captain Halliday, the British fleet was out of sight to leeward, except one 74 and a frigate, both of which were about 9 miles distant in the same direction.
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