"Headmost" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The headmost ship, apparently the Duke under Captain Dottin, could now be seen to hotly engage the Glorioso, which greatly displeased the captain of the ...
— Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea • Charles H. L. Johnston
... got together several sloops and schooners and victual'd them, I order Cobb & Rogers to pass the Falls to cover the other vessels as they might be able to get through. They accordingly get under way. Cobb being the headmost passes the Narrows, but is too late to get over the Falls and obliged to come too in a little cove below. The Ulysses, Capt. Rogers, in passing the Narrows strikes on a Rock, and is drove by the Tide into a creek above ...
— Glimpses of the Past - History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 • W. O. Raymond |
