Kieran Doherty Quote

By that point, those on the vessel were almost beyond caring. Mountainous seas, driving rain, lightning, and screaming winds continued as the ship labored simply to stay afloat. Sylvester Jourdain, Somers’s gentleman friend from Lyme, later said all the men on the ship being utterly spent, tired, and disabled for longer labor, were even resolved, without any hope of their lives, to shut up the hatches and to have committed themselves to the mercy of the sea. While there was no water or beer to drink, a few of the gentlemen and highborn passengers, he said, had kept back some good and comfortable waters—wine and spirits. These passengers quit work, fetched their waters, and started drinking, taking their last leave one of the other until their more joyful and happy meeting in a more blessed world.