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"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Fred Humiston
  • 1965-01-01
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
  • In Copyright
"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel."
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
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"American Marksmanship Claims British Vessel." - Part 185 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - and Women." This story is about Edward Preble, it starts by telling of Preble's youth as a farm boy and his journey with learning how to be a seaman. The story then switches over to the story of a navy ship that fired a deadly shot to a British ship. This part says " The 'protector' fired a deadly raking broadside, which brought down the mizzenmast and set the main top-gallant afire." [show more]