The Logs of the Serapis--Allance--Ariel, Under the Command of John Paul Jones, 1779-1780. Various
of my people. I am now in the same distressing situation as I was last night.[17]
The storm continuing until the morning of the 10th, notwithstanding the heavy sea Jones succeeded on that and the following day in getting up jury, fore, and mizzen masts, and on the 11th, at noon, cut the cable, got under way, and anchored the Ariel on the 13th of October in the harbor of L'Orient.
The journal of the Ariel ends on the 14th of October. She remained at L'Orient until the 18th of December, when she again sailed, and arrived safely in the United States, having encountered an enemy's ship, supposed by Jones to be named the Triumph, which, after a short resistance, struck her colors, and a few minutes afterward (according to Jones) her captain had the baseness to fill his sails and run away. This voyage in the Ariel was the last service at sea performed by John Paul Jones under the American flag. He arrived in Philadelphia on February 18, 1781, having been absent from the United States three years, three months, and eighteen days.
Following the last entry of the Ariel's log, several leaves have been torn out. The book was reversed again, and immediately following "A List of The Men Names that has Desarted from The Bone Homme Richard, Lorient July, 19th. 1779" we find, in the identical handwriting of the logs of the Serapis, Alliance, and Ariel, "A List of Officers, & Men, belonging to the American Continental Ship of War, Ariel, Commanded, by the Honble, John Paul Jones." A comparison of this list with the muster-roll of the Bon Homme Richard shows that most of the officers and many of the crew of the former still followed the fortunes of Jones.
Upon several pages are also inscribed the following receipts:[18]
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