Twice each week the crew fired at targets with great guns and musketry and the sailor who hit the bull's eye received a pound of tobacco.

Without warning Captain Broke would order a cask tossed overboard and then suddenly order some particular gun to sink it.

In brief, the _Shannon_ possessed those qualities which had been notable in the victorious American frigates and which were lamentably deficient in the _Chesapeake_.
Lawrence's men were unknown to each other and to their officers, and they had never been to sea together.

The last draft came aboard, in fact, just as the anchor was weighed and the _Chesapeake_ stood out to meet her doom.

Even most of her officers were new to the ship.