[BITList] Engineers?

[John Feltham]

From another List….


"Whether or not it is the same "Sir William Peel" caught up in a big fuss 
when the US gunboat Seminole captured it in 1863 while in Mexican waters I 
don't know, but there is stuff on the net about this.

Extract from a letter from 1863 from US Steamer Seminole about the capture 
of the Sir William Peel:  "Among the crew of the Sir William Peel I noticed 
several whom I thought were intoxicated; the two engineers I considered most 
decidedly drunk, and one fireman was in such a beastly state of intoxication 
it was not considered safe to remove him......"

http://www.nytimes.com/1863/10/04/news/breach-of-mexican-neutrality-seizure-of-the-sir-william-peel-in-russian-waters.html



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