Acasta

Battle-cruiser Squadron, had engaged enemy light-cruisers which were firing heavily on the torpedo-boat destroyer _Shark_, _Acasta_, and

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The _Newcastle_ was on the _Constitution's_ lee quarter and directly ahead of the _Leander_, while the _Acasta_ was on the weather-quarter of the _Newcastle_.

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The _Acasta_ opened upon the sloop as soon as the latter had anchored, at 4.30.

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Lord George Stewart; _Leander_, 50, Captain Sir Ralph Collier, K.C.B., and _Acasta, 40, Captain Robert Kerr, standing into Porto Praya, close-hauled on the starboard tack, the wind being light northeast by north.

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The latter was by no means as heavily armed as either of the two 50's, and but little heavier than the _Acasta_; moreover, she was shorthanded, having manned her two prizes.

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The _Acasta_, at any rate, had made out the force of the

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 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

_Acasta_ and _Shannon_, each of fifty guns, and _Ringdove_, of twenty.

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Had the _Newcastle_ and _Acasta_ kept on after the _Constitution_ there was a fair chance of overtaking her, for the _Acasta_ had weathered on her, and the chase could not bear up for fear of being cut off by the _Newcastle_.

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But not considering the _Acasta_, there were in the

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 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

The _Constitution_ cut adrift the boats towing astern, and her log notes that at 12.50 she found she was sailing about as fast as the ships on her lee quarter, but that the _Acasta_ was luffing into her wake and dropping astern.

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