 | RICHARD ROLT - 1749 - 548 pagina’s
...therefore, on his lower tier, appointed only two men to each gun, who were to be folely employed in loading it, whilft the reft of his people were divided into...fire fuch guns as were loaded. By this management, Commodore Anfon was enabled to make ufe of all his guns ; and, infiead of whole broad-fides, with intervals... | |
 | John Knox - 1767 - 530 pagina’s
...loading it, -whilft the reft of his people, divided toto different gangs of ten or twelve men each, were continually moving about the decks, to run out and fire fuch guns as were loaded. By this managemenc he was enabled to make ufe of all his guns ; and inftead of broad-fides, he kept up a conftant... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1814 - 584 pagina’s
...tire, fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solelv employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of ten or twelve men each, who were constantly moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this managemenl'he... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 pagina’s
...tier, fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of ten or twelve men each, which were constantly moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this... | |
 | David Laing Purves - 1874 - 856 pagina’s
...tier, fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of ten or twelve men each, who were constantly moving about the decks, to nm out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management... | |
 | Frederick Whymper - 1883 - 712 pagina’s
...tier fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of...continually moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management he was enabled to make use of all his guns ; and instead... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1891 - 426 pagina’s
...tier fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of...continually moving about the decks to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management he was enabled to make use of all his guns, and instead... | |
 | Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - 1906 - 448 pagina’s
...tier, fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of...continually moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management he was enabled to make use of all his guns ; and instead... | |
 | Richard Walter, George Anson Baron Anson - 1928 - 574 pagina’s
...tire, fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were divided into different gangs of ten or twelve men each, which were constantly moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this... | |
 | George Wycherley - 1928 - 536 pagina’s
...fixed only two men to each gun, to be wholly employed in loading it, whilst [407] the rest of the men were divided into different gangs of ten or twelve men each, who were constantly moving about the decks, to run out and fire such guns as were loaded. By this management,... | |
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As he had not hands enough remaining to quarter a sufficient number to each great gun in the customary manner, he therefore on his lower tier fixed only two men to each gun, who were to be solely employed in loading it, whilst the rest of his people were... 
