The Log Of A Privateersman

The French probably never did a more audacious thing than when, on the night of October 26th, 1804, a party of forty odd of them left the lugger Belle Marie hove-to in Weymouth Roads and pulled, with muffled oars, in three boats, into the harbour; from whence they succeeded in carrying out to sea the newly-arrived West Indian trader Weymouth, loaded with a full cargo of rum, sugar, and tobacco.

• • Author: Harry Collingwood
• • Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• • Publication Date: May 11, 2016
• • Number of Pages: 148 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1523900067
• • ISBN-13: 9781523900060