by John Marshall

“ The Penguin had her commander, boatswain, and four men killed; her second lieutenant (John Elwin) , master’s-mate, one midshipman (John Noyes, who lost a leg) , and twenty-nine men wounded, four of whom mortally. The Hornet received a few shot in the hull, one of which was so low down as to keep her men constantly at the pumps. She had, by the acknowledgment of her officers, only two men killed and eleven wounded; but several of her crew told some of their former shipmates, whom they discovered among the Penguins, that the Hornet had ten men killed by the first and second broadsides. ”

“ Her crew were provided with leather caps, fitted with narrow plates of iron, crossing at the top, and bending upward from the lower edge of the crown, to prevent a cutlass from striking the shoulder after having glanced on the head. ”