The guns of the Serapis remained serviceable during the whole action, and their effect on the decayed sides of the Richard was literally to tear her

"A little after ten," says Jones in his report, "I saw, with inexpressible grief, the last glimpse of the Bonhomme Richard."Continuing “I Have Not

While the fire was raging in so terrifying a manner, the water was entering the ship in many places. The rudder had been cut entirely through, the

"Captain Pearson now called away his boarders and sent them on board the Richard, but, when they had reached her rail, they were met by Jones himself,

"While the fire of the Serapis was continued without intermission from the whole of her lower-deck battery, the only guns that were still fired from

About half-past seven the Bonhomme Richard hauled up her courses and rounded-to on the weather or larboard quarter of the Serapis,Continuing “I Have