CHAPTER III

. THE FIRST EXHIBIT OF YANKEE METTLE 33

Captain David Porter’s Ideas about Training Seamen--The Guns of the _Essex_--Taking a Transport out of a Convoy at Night--A British Frigate Captain who was Called a Coward by his Countrymen--Captain Laugharne’s Mistake--A Fight that began with Cheers and ended in Dismay for which there was Good Cause--Work that was Done by Yankee Gunners in Eight Minutes--When Farragut Saved the Ship--An Attack on a Fifty-gun Ship Planned.

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