Identifier: ournavyintimeofw00matt (find matches)
Title: Our navy in time of war (1861-1898)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Matthews, Franklin, 1858-1917. (from old catalog)
Subjects: United States. Navy Spanish-American War, 1898
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e water, and the stern of the vesselshowed above the surface. The ship took a sharpdive and disappeared. Craven and his pilot John Col-lins started for the small opening in the deck from thepilot house. They reached there at the same time,and the brave man Craven showed how noble he waswhen he drew back and told the pilot to go first.There was only time for one of them to be saved andCraven said: After you, pilot. Collins had scarcely reached the deck before theshi)) went down and Craven was droAvned with ninety-two of his men. Some of the men on the othervessels of the fleet thought it was the Tennesseethat had been sunk. They shouted that the Ten-nessee had gone down, and clu^er after cheer went upfiom the ^Northern ships; but the cheers were soonsilenced when word was passed that it was the Te-cumseh. Farragut at once ordered a boat clearedaway to rescue some of the men in the water, hut al)oat had already hvon sent. General Richard L.Page, who was in command of Fort Morgan, splen-
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liiiiiite :jiiiiaiii:i!::ii!iii!:iii!!iiiiiiiiii(iiiii^^^ 9 108 OUR NAVY IN TIME OF WAR. did man that lie was, saw tlie small boat and orderedhis men not to fire upon it because it was engaged insaving drowning men. After the Tecnmseh had gonedown the other monitors passed over the place whereit had sunk and went past the torpedoes. They wereready then to fight the Tennessee or to help the rest ofthe fleet. The Brooklyn now approached the narrow openingin the channel. Her captain saw some floats thatlooked like torpedoes, and he at once stopped his en-gines and hesitated about going in. Farragut wasclose behind on the Hartford, and it seemed as ifthere would be a collision. The Richmond wasclose behind the Hartford, and Farragut feared thatit too would come up and get into the tangle. Inhis desire to see all that was going on, Farragut hadcliml)ed far up into the shrouds, and Captain Dray-ton, fearing that if he were wounded or killed hewould be lost by falling overboard, sent Signal

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