 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1896 - 388 pages
...large armored ship, Chen Yuen (Chinese). " In helping to put out one] of those fires I was wounded. The fire was forward, on the forecastle, and there was...impossible to get there alive; so I had to go myself. I called for volunteers, and got some splendid fellows — some of our best men, unhappily, for nearly... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1896 - 802 pages
...armored ship, Chen Yuen (Chinese). " Iii helping to put out one" of those fires I was wounded. The fire was forward, on the forecastle, and there was...impossible to get there alive; so I had to go myself. I called for volunteers, and got some splendid fellows — some of our best men, unhappily, for nearly... | |
 | Herbert Wrigley Wilson - 1898 - 520 pages
...records his experiences as follows:* " In helping to put out one of these fires, I was wounded. The fire was forward, on the forecastle, and there was...impossible to get there alive ; so I had to go myself. I called for volunteers, and got several splendid fellows — some of our best men, unhappily, for nearly... | |
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Iii helping to put out one" of those fires I was wounded. The fire was forward, on the forecastle, and there was such a fierce fire sweeping the deck between it and the fore-barbette, that the officer whom I ordered to go and put it out declared it to... 