Another attempt and Biddle joined Jack Lang by way of the bowsprit.

These two thus captured the _Frolic_, for as they dashed aft the only living men on deck were the undaunted sailor at the wheel and three officers, including Captain Whinyates and Lieutenant Wintle, who were so severely wounded that they could not stand without support.

They tottered forward and surrendered their swords, and Lieutenant Biddle then leaped into the rigging and hauled the British ensign down.
Of the _Frolic's_ crew of one hundred and ten men only twenty were unhurt, and these had fled below to escape the dreadful fire from the _Wasp_.

The gun deck was strewn with bodies, and the waves which broke over the ship swirled them to and fro, the dead and the wounded together.

Not an officer had escaped death or injury.