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Title: A youthful man-o'-warsman, from the diary of an English lad ... who served in the British frigate Macedonian during her memorable action with the American frigate United States; who afterward deserted and entered the American Navy ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Maclay, Edgar Stanton, 1863-1919
Subjects: Leech, Samuel, 1798-1848 Adventure and adventurers Sailors United States -- History War of 1812 Personal narratives
Publisher: Greenlawn, N.Y., Navy Blue Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eclared that, though he had been at seatwenty-five years, he had never experienced sucha frightful storm. He had not left the deck allthat night. Fortunately for all hands, the shipwas nearly new, exceptionally strong and an ex-cellent sea boat. As the gale abated, repairs were made and thecartel proceeded on her voyage, meeting a num-ber of vessels that had suffered even worse thanshe, while (as they afterward learned) manycraft went down with all hands on board. Thatgale was on the 9th and loth of August, 1815,and was long remembered among sailor folk asthe worst in their experience. When so many resolutions about turning intofarmers had, apparently, been clinched bythis close swish against the winding sheet ofDeath, we would expect that the men makingthem would exert all effort to get into the ruraldistricts as soon as possible after reaching port.Such, however, did not prove to be the case. Arriving in New York, safe and sound, theywere paid ofiF and, in a twinkling, the hardships
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Resolutions Soon Forgot. 183 and perils of the sea were forgotten as most ofthe sailors plunged headlong into dissipationwhich was continued so long as their money heldout. As Sanniel well expressed it: ** We felt asif New York belonged to us and that we werereally the happiest, jolliest fellows in the world. It is only in justice to our hero to say, however,that at first he made honest effort to find employ-ment on shore. He looked up the bootmakingestablishment in Broadway, where he had begunan apprenticeship, and was truly disappointed onlearning that his employer had moved to Phila-delphia. After this damper on his good reso-lutions our hero, we fear, did not make otherserious attempts in this line. He had a hundreddollars in his pocket and was content to floatabout the city until that was gone when, like mostof his companions in the cartel, he enlisted again. Samuel shipped in the United States war brigBoxer which had been captured by the Enter-prise, September, 1813. The Boxer w

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