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Newspaper
The Ohio Union
Location
Ashland, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1853
Page
5
A deserter’s memoir recounts the Dolphin a Columbian merchantman defended by Captain M and crew against a Brazilian Spanish brig off St. Johns Puerto Rico The engagement features a hero captain brave marines and a brutal exchange with heavy casualties and a dramatic doomed chase on windward seas.
A wounded, fragmentary diary-like narrative details a naval engagement with an enemy brig. The writer describes maneuvering, broadside exchanges, and casualties, noting gunfire, raking, and grapeshot amid a tense, chaotic combat scene with fellow sailors and prize crew aboard.
Priscellany recounts Norman Scott’s youth in Liverpool, seafaring ascent, and a daring escape from a Spanish dungeon. It leads into a dramatic sea fight aboard the Dolphin, a 70 ton armed schooner, which is chased and captured after an intense engagement with a Spanish privateer and its crew. The narrative paints the captain as humane yet ruthless in combat, and notes the prize crew’s reaction to mercy shown to the Spaniards.
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