Lieutenant W . Wooltiridge then gallantly boarded her in the jolly boat with eight men, took possession of her though there were fifty five Spaniards, and brought her into Gibraltar.
32.
One day while " Africaine " was maintaining this blockade, the French general at Scheveningen had four boys shrimping in " Africaine " s jolly boat fired upon.
33.
Lieutenants Campbell and North managed to escape in a jolly boat, but by half past ten, " Tribune " lurched over and sank off Herring Cove, Nova Scotia.
34.
By 1815 however the Stores Committee had authorised the replacement of the old-style jolly boats with the improved versions as and when it proved practical for a ship's commander to carry this out.
35.
By the 68th day adrift in the jolly boat, Widdicombe was slipping into unconsciousness, but with the sight of an island on the 69th day, the men managed to steer the lifeboat to landfall.
36.
In September 1797, in the North Sea, " Astraea " rescued Midshipman Benjamin Clement, who would one day rise to the rank of post captain, and the crew of his jolly boat.
37.
The " Widder " was reported to have machine-gunned the crew of the SS " Anglo Saxon " in their life-boats; one jolly boat with seven crewmen got away.
38.
One of the key people involved in the repatriation of the jolly boat was Anthony Smith, the broadcaster and author of'Survived', an account of the " Anglo Saxon " and her crew.
39.
After dark on 8 August, " Porcupine ", still under the command of Duncan, had her cutter and jolly boat under Lieutenant Francis Smith cut out a vessel she had run ashore on the island of Pianosa.
40.
Collier, who was active in the close blockade of the Spanish coast during the Peninsular War, combined the features of a jolly boat with those of a whaleboat and found the result extremely seaworthy and particularly effective in carrying out shore landings.
