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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Since the Royal Navy's rowboat had not had time to do soundings because of The Adventure's roundshot, both the Jane and the Ranger suffered a mishap that is a felony in seamanship. Both ran aground and gave Blackbeard's gunner Philip Morton a perfect target for his eight cannon. Blackbeard swung his cannon to the side of the ship facing the vixen the Jane and the Ranger and opened up with all eight cannons blazing. At least, twenty eight men of Lt. Maynard's men lay dying or dead on his two sloops. Armless, headless, legless and riddled with splinters from the ships' wood broken by the very well aimed cannon. Unfortunately for Blackbeard pushing all the cannon to on side on the Adventure propelled his ship onto the shore on the other side of from where the blast was fired. Now there were three sloops stranded on Ocracoke Inlet.
Blackbeard the Pirate toy-- Captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach Replica from Safari
Philip Morton, gunner toy-- Gunner Phillip Morton Replica from Safari |
Lt. Maynard was left as the only living Captain on these two Royal Naval sloops as Mr. Hyde the other sloop's commander as well as his second-in-command were dead from Blackbeard's broadside. The call was put out to put anything and everything that was not a weapon over the side of
the Jane and
the Ranger including the
drinking water, any
parlor game cards and pieces the sailors had, any
mystic talismans kept for luck, and any blunted weapons only good for teaching how to
fence. After the ship was lightened of any unnecessary burdens, the tide and a wind sent it moving. While the ships were drifting, Lt. Maynard hid his remaining men of
the Jane in the ship's hold but put two ladders at the ready for his men to make a quick maneuver if Blackbeard took the bait of a ship full with dead bodies and smeared with crimson. Blackbeard's ship
The Adventure had also found the high tide and started to move towards
the Jane.
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