Excerpt from A Second Series of Deeds of Naval Daring, or Anecdotes of the British Navy Captain Salter, In his official letter, pays a high tribute to the gallant and officer-like conduct of Visconte de Montguiote In leading his ship into action This officer was killed early In the fight, When. The second in command, the Chevalier de Lemne, did everything that an experienced ofl'icer in his situation could possibly do, and did not Surrender until himself and all his oficers saye One, and about half his Ship's company, were either killed or wounded, While his masts were so crippled as to be In danger of going over the side every moment, several guns were dismounted, and he had four feet water in the hold - a a situation Sufficiently bad to justify to his king and country the necessity of Surrender. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.