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  • Unfortunately, the lugger had taken shots between wind and water.
  • She was also badly damaged, with numerous shots between wind and water and with her masts and rigging damaged.
  • He hit Jackson hard " between wind and water " in the second round and continuing body hits drove Jackson down and out in the third round.
  • One possibility for the sailing ship approach is discovering something equivalent to the parallelogram of force between wind and water which allows sails to propel a sailing ship.
  • Webb just succeeded in evacuating all the prisoners and getting his own boarding party back, when " Revanche " sank, having taken more than 40 shots between wind and water.
  • The main deck, on which the guns are fought, is thus protected throughout the entire length, but the extremities'between wind and water'are quite as unprotected as those on the " Warrior " ".
  • Her foremast, already in bad shape before the battle, was struck by several French cannonballs, and her pumps, already overtaxed in an attempt to keep her afloat, were badly damaged by shots " between wind and water ".
  • The two brigs engaged, giving the squadron under command of Captain Robert Honyman in time to join the action . " Gallant " received four shot between wind and water and had to sail back to Britain to effect repairs; she had no casualties . " Watchful " captured one of the vessels.
  • In such a contest the English gun-brigs were useless, and the Danish boats, taking a position on the Africa's bows or quarters, galled her exceedingly; twice her flag was shot away, her masts and yards badly wounded, her rigging cut to pieces, her hull shattered, and with several large shot between wind and water; nine men were killed and fifty-three wounded.
  • In his log-book Champlin wrote : " In this action we had six men killed and sixteen wounded, and all the halyards of the headsails shot away; the fore-mast and bowsprit one quarter cut through, and all the fore and main shrouds but one shot away; both mainstays and running rigging cut to pieces; a great number of shot through our sails, and several between wind and water, which caused our vessel to leak.
  • The fighting was mostly hand to hand or at very short range .'We discharged,'wrote Badiley,'that day from this ship ( the Paragon ) 800 pieces of great ordnance, which must have done no small execution, having sometimes two of the enemy's best men-of-war aboard, and all the rest within pistol and musket shot of us'( 31 August ) The " Paragon " had 26 killed and 57 wounded, out of a complement of 250; had fifty shot in the hull, many of them between wind and water, and her masts and rigging cut to pieces.