- HMS Guerriere (38) with the
words "Not The
Little Belt"
painted on her
foretopsail.
Guerriere opened fire upon
entering range of Constitution,
doing little...
- (54')
Sails Jiptop, Jib, Foresail, Forecourse,
Foretopsail, 2
Forecourse Studding Sails, 2
Foretopsail Studding Sails,
Fisherman Staysail, Main Staysail...
- into her ill-fated
action against USS Constitution.
Painted across her
foretopsail were the
words "NOT THE
LITTLE BELT".
Timeline of the War of 1812 Chesapeake–Leopard...
-
helmsmen were
killed and her
wheel was destro****. At the same time, her
foretopsail halyard was shot away
causing the ship to lose maneuverability. Unable...
-
three times. Her crew
extinguished the
first two, but the third, in her
foretopsail,
proved to be too
difficult to fight. By 16:00,
Schwarzenberg began to...
- the yards. On 24th Dec.
Nathaniel Hasting, seaman,
while furling the
foretopsail fell from the yard
overboard and drowned.
Three others were also thrown...
-
square rigging with a sprit-sail on the
bowsprit yard,
foresails or
foretopsails on the foremast,
mainsails and
topsails on the mainmast, and a lateen...
-
round shot and grape,
breaking the main
topsail and
shooting away the
foretopsail braces and the bowsprit.
Dolores fired back with
musketry and pistols...
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rolling topsails, with her name
emblazoned across the
lower part of the
foretopsail in
large black lettering "that
could be read much
further than any signals...
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mainmast and to
guide her
safely to port, and she was seen "to bend a new
foretopsail" at 4pm. A
newspaper report on 5
December says that once the
storm abated...
