Chapter 7: Spanish Man o' War
After a few mishaps with acquiring the guns we were finally underway three Ships left Nassau The flagship the Walrus, The Ranger, and The Harbinger I left the Sea Wolf behind since she wasn't done being refitted. We sailed for two days when we ran into a storm nearly took down our ships but we pulled through. When it calmed we reached our destination but there was no Spanish treasure ship in sight. My crew began to grumble as we continued to sail along the coast.
Then a ship came into view but she was not the Treasure ship she was a Spanish Man o' War and she was closing fast. The Walrus ran up Spanish colors the Ranger kept her piratate colors up we did the same seeing that the spanish would follow the Ranger and Harbinger and Ignore the Walrus since she was flying their colors. Mr Quake and I watched the man o' war closely as she passed the Walrus and came after us. Walrus came about and we waited for her to fire, but she didn't the Man o War kept coming.
"Why the fuck aren't they firing!?" Mr. Quake looked at me with a look he gave when he was concerned.
"Their crew is disgruntled shit….could they be challenging Flint now?"
"Bad Fucking Timing!" Quake yelled at the top of his lungs.
"Bring us about!" I ordered quickly knowing full well what a Man o War can do to a ship.
As if by some miracle Walrus fired a single shot and hit the Spaniard. The Ranger and Harbinger began to come about as the Walrus fired her full broadside into the rear of the Spaniard after taking a hit from the Man o wars aft guns. When Ranger and Harbinger were completely about we fired out broadsides into their forward with everything we had. The walrus fired its second broadside hitting and damaging the Spaniard badly. Cannons boomed smoke and the smell of gunpowder filled the air as our three ships slammed her. Then the Spaniard began to come about most of our crew probably shit themselves as we saw those gunports come around.
"Keep firing don't let up on that Bastard!" I yelled as I went down onto the gundeck to help the gun crews.
From one of the gunports I saw those gunports open like a wave my heart skipped a beat as I watched them open a sense of genuine fear came over me something I had not felt in a long time.
"Fuck me!" I heard one of the crewmen yell as he tried to load his gun faster.
For a moment the air was still and quiet like that of the air before a storm then hell rained down as those guns opened up on our ships the sound of her guns blocked out almost every other sound. The hull exploded crewmen flew back cannons were blown off their carriages as the shots slammed into our hull. Crewmen screamed and died of shrapnel blood was on the deck. I saw Mr Quake standing giving orders until a cannon ball came and ripped his head clean off and his body fell to the deck. I heard an explosion behind us and saw debris fly through the air I guessed that it was the Ranger exploding. Crewmen carried the wounded to clear the deck i knew it was hopeless to try and run our our main mast had fallen.
"Abandon ship!" I yelled as I ran up what was left of the stairs that went to the rail.
The shout echoed through the ship men dropped the wounded and went to the side and jumped overboard as the Harbinger began to list to port and sink lower in the water before i jumped a cannonball exploded behind me the force of the impact knocked me unconscious I don't remember much of what had happened after that.
