These were all of our people that I could find; the others I supposed had been washed by the water or knocked by the falling spars overboard.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Her masts and spars were still hanging to her side, an' so, thinks I to meself, I'll have a struggle for life.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
Our only hope was to knock away some of the spars of the line-of-battle ship, and then fight our way past the two frigates.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston