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“One of the foretopmen, who witnessed the accident, says that he appeared to cannon off something below, bounding out from the ship’s side before striking the water, when he sank like a stone.”

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by Greene, John B.

At the same time the men in the Chesapeake's main-top were driven out of it by the fire of the Shannon's foretopmen, under Midshipman Smith.

From The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans by Roosevelt, Theodore

One of the foretopmen, drawing water in the chains, fell overboard; the alarm was instantly given, and the ship hove to.

From Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick

‘Throw her out of the bow port,’ he said to the gunner, who pitched a yarn about it being the foretopmen who had done the fell deed.

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by Greene, John B.

One of the foretopmen, drawing water in the chains, fell overboard; the alarm was instantly given, and the ship hove-to.

From Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer by Marryat, Frederick