ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE IN THE THRILLING HISTORY OF THE U.S, MARINE CORPS PRIVATEER! A PRIVATEER 19 A SHIP OWNED AND OPERATED BY SOMEONE WHO |S AUTHORIZED ANO LICENSE axa GOVERNMENT AT WAR TO PIRATE AND PLUNDER ENEMY VESSELS! IN THE YEAR IGOO, WHEN AMERICA ANO FRANCE WERE ENGAGED IN A NAVAL WAR, A GROUP OF FRENCHMEN CAPTURED THE SPEEDY ENGLISH PACKET-BOAT SANGW/CAT AND TURNED HER INTO A PRIVATEER THAT RAIDED AMERICAN: SHIPPING AND DEFIED THE AMERICAN NAVY AND MARINES TO SINK OR CAPTURE HER/ ON APRIL 7H, IBOO, THE LOOKOUT IN WHAT THE SEAMAN SAW MAOE. ANOY, WS THE PE TMG GAOIPS-NEGT OF ANAMERICAN HIM SWALLOW Wis CxEW OF | SAND Fee te orn an oe I WOSAIS TOBACCO... f ON THE HORIZON AND FOCUSED HIS ow UMARBOARD Gian” LONG GLASS ON THEM... STARBOARD STERN! Tre a y ‘THE SWIFT PRIVATEER CLOSED IN ON THE AMERICAN MERCHANT SHIP AND. MANEUVERED INTO A € MERCHANT SHIP WITH NINE OF HER CANNONS!THEN THE. PIRATE SHIP TURNED TOWARD THI TH Nesett room eteanTOBown en WIN2 ANO CAME PARALLEL. WITH THE IAEREHANT SHIP'S COURSE... THE PRIVATEER IS ANEWNERING FOR A BROADSIDE! ETRE THE COLORS! SURRENDER BEFORE SHE ‘SINKS US! Sz THE UNARMED MERCHANT VESSEL'S COLORS WERE LOWERED TO INDICATE SURZENCER, BUT THE PRIVATEER REPLIEO WITH A FULL BROADSIDE OF HER IZ-POUND CARRONADES LOADED WITH ROUND AND GRAPESHOT.. PREPARE TK REMOVE ALL SUPPLIES 0 OUR DECKS! (AMON. CIEL! ITS THE 44-GUN AND ON THE |576 TON FRIGATE, CAPTAIN NICHOLEON SS. CONSTITUTION! ee i OF THE U.S.NAVY AND CAPTAIN ‘CARMICK OF THE US. E MARINES WATCHED THE PRIVATEEW SHOVE OFF... [sues RUNNING, BUT WE i TER ORT We TARE ON THE CREW OF THAT SINKING MERCHANT SHIP! ogZC AND WE'VE GOT TO POKEOUR BOW INTO ALL OF THEM/OR WE'LL SEE SIGHTS LIKE AS. THE CONSTITUTION SET SAIL FOR ENGLANQ AFTER RESCUING THE SURVIVORS OF THE MERCHANT. SHI, HER COMMANDER MADE A PROMISE TO MARINE CAPTAIN DANIEL CARINICK.,.. ALRIGHT, DANIEL! "YOURE RIGHT, CAPTAIN CARMICK .. GUT, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PORTS THE LD HIDE INE F/ THATS Albd Ack! | Hh FIND THE PRIVATEER MY MARINES ANDZ| ‘SANDWICH FOR iLL DOT T! A THE RES AETER DEPOSITING THE CREW OFTHE CAPTAIN NICHOLSON SHOVEO HIS [THEW qHE PIRATE MERCHANT VESSEL IN ENGLANO, FRIGATE’S FLYING JIB INTO MUST BE OT THE CONSTITUTION BEGAN ITS EVERY COVE, INLET AND HARBOR | untinG WHERE SEARCH FOR THE FRENCH IN WESTERN EUROPE», THE HUNTING IS IATEER THIS 1S THE LAST PORT ON THE CORET OF SPAIN [suers NY FRENCH PORT.) ANG SHE'S NOT HERE! y NOTIN AI EITHER! Dre GOOD,,.IN AMERICAN TERS! CONSTITUTION CROSSED THE ATLANTIC, AND ON MAY IIT, 1900, WHILIPRECONNOITERING OFF THE COAST OF THE WEST INDIES, THE FRIGATES LOOKOUT SPY-GLASSED WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR, HIDING IN THE TINY SPANISH HARBOR OF PORTO PLATA IN NORTHERN SAN DOMINGO... IT'S THE PRIVATEER, SiR! | GETTING A NEW WAIT, CAPTAIN NICHOLSON! BUT SHE'S STRIPPED RIGGING, NO DOUBT! IVE SPOTTED SOMETHING DOWN To HER LOWER J BUT SHE'LL NEVER ELSE! THERE'S A St Masts! use iT! OF THREE CANNONS PROTECTING THE PRIVATEER!‘THE. CONSTITUTION MOVED IN QUICKLY AND BLOCKADED THE SLOOP'S COURSE... SHE'S STRUCK HER COLORS! THAT'S ONE SLOOP THE FRENCH WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN! THE SKIPPER OF THE CONSTITUTION WAS PUZZLED, UNTIL THE MARINE CAPTAIN EXPLAINED! AND AN HOUR LATER, AS THE FRENCH SLOOP, SALLY, GAILEO TOWARD THE HARBOR, THERE WAS A SMILE ‘ON THE NAVAL CAPTAIN'S FACE, AND A PRAYER IN HIS HEART... IT'S DARING...UT IF ANYONE CAN 00. CAPTAIN CARMICK AND HIG MARINES ARE THE ONES! Deans. p IT WAS SIESTA "IME IN-LAZY PORTO PLATA ANO NO UD DEF SUDDENLY, A PISTOL SHOT SOUNDED OFF FROM THE ONE PAID MUCH ATTENTION To THE FRENCH SALLY'S DECK, AND THE HATCHES SLAMMED SLOOP CRUISING INTO THE HARBOR,..NOTUNTIL OPEN BEFORE THE SMOKE HAD CLEARED! OUT THE SALLY SIDESWIFED THE PRIVATEER AND OF THE HOLD CAME CAPTAIN CANIEL CARMICK AWOKE THE WATCH ! AND 90 GAILORS AND U.S. MARINES! i OVER, THE GUNWALES: SACRE Bt, aera SE Ce ay slwoPr HAD: is FOLLOW fiee THE SAILORS SWARMED OVER THE PRIVATEER'S ‘THE FRENCH CANNONS WERE IN ELEVATED POSITION WALES, CAPTAIN CARMICK AND HIS MARINES FOR LONG -FANGE FIRING AND HAD TO Bi SUMPED INTO THe WATER LE TO THEI LEATHER LOWERED! Gut GerORe THe CANNCNEER NECKS AND WADED TOWARD THE THREE-CANNON oo THAT, THE sialinianle OC HAO LANOED ! GUN BATTERY ON SHORE... EP YOUR POWDER ORY, MARES? RAISE THOSE MUSRETS AFTER THEIR MUSKETS WERE DISCHARGED, THE TEN MINUTES LATER, THE BATTERY WAS WON, MARINES CHARGED IN WITH THEIR BAYONETS. ANO THE FRENCH PRIVATEER, SAltWICH) 1Ae AN AMERICAN PRIZE OF WAR.; e ano BUT SHES NOT SEAWORTHY IN, \OEBTROY A FINE, ]HER STRIPPED-DOWN ION, /SWIFT SHIP WE CAN CAPTAIN! SHALL We PUT USE 10, AFIRETOHER,GIR? 3S PS MERCHANTS sis, SUNK? NO, WE'LL MAKE HER SHIPSHAPE... RIGHT HERE IN ENEMY PORT! AND THEY QAD/ WHILE PART OF THE SAILOR AND = THE SANDWICH SAILEG OUT OF THE ENEMY HARBOR’ MARINE CREW KEPT INTRUCERS AWAY WITH GRAPE- A WEEK LATER, AS A SHIP OF THE LINITED STATES SHOT FROM THE CAPTURED CANNONS, THE REST NAVY! AN AMAZING EPISODE IN CUR HISTORY, MADE OF THE CREW WORKED TO MAKE THE PRIVATEER POSGIELE BY THE MAVY AND THE ALARINES, AN UNBEATABLE TEAM THAT WORKS AND FIGHTS TOGETHER... TO THIS DAY! SEAWORTHY!