Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1914 — A Century Ago. [ARTICLE]

A Century Ago.

One hundred years ago a vessel flying the stars and stripes was cruising boldly in the chops of the English channel, almost within hailing distance of England’s shores. The vessel, which on the morrow was to achieve one of those brilliant victories in the War of lilt, was the new sloop Wasp, recently completed at the navy yard in Portsmouth, N. H., and named after the gallant little craft that had been taken by the British after her capture of the Frolic. The new Wasp was a stanch three-master, carrying U guns to a broadside. Her crew of 17» men wen purely American. not s foreigner among them. She was in charge of the gallant Capt Johnston Blakely, who recently had been In oommand of the Enterprise.