Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841 - Page 23

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  boarding arm, there is nothing to compete with them. I have made an
estimate for a few more, to fill up the necessary numbers of small
arms, for vessels of War.

              The Roman Swords (more of which are actually required)
are as far superior to the old Ship’s Cutlass as can possibly be imag-
ined.

              The Francis’ Life Boats are of incalculable value and
I hope that every vessel of our Navy will have at least one[.]
[W]e are in want of Boats, several having been lost, and they
cost about thirty dollars more than the ordinary boat. No
vessel ought in my opinion, be sent to sea without one of them[.]
[T]he one on board this Ship reached the wreck of the “Segunda
Fama” in a gale, when the other boats were driven back,
not from the superiority of her model, but because the men
in her knew that she could not sink with the weight that was
then in her. I have known the same Boat to come off from
Point Mariandrea, through a surf, with twelve persons in her[.]
[S]he filled in getting out through the Surf, and pulled off to the
Ship, full half a mile, when an ordinary boat of the same size
would not have carried two men, and would inevitably have
been driven back, and in all probability they would have
been drowned.

              The Cannon Locks, of E Hiddwn’s invention, in general
use in our Navy, cannot, in my opinion be improved upon[.]
[W]e have spare ones enough for the Artillery of the Army for
some time, if the Hon Secty of War thinks proper to try them[.]

              I will go to sea as soon as the Zavala’s Rudder
is complete, which will take a week, first to the Arcas
to get the San-Jacinto repaired, thence to Campeche, where I
will not remain more than three days, and from thence
will proceed direct to Galveston, as we will be out of provision[.]

              The time of many of the men has already expired,
and on my arrival at Galveston, there will be very few men
whose time will not have expired, and a Cargo of Coal is
requisite for the Zavala. I can easily get a crew, by going to

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Edwin W. Moore to Louis P. Cooke, December 24, 1841. Texas Navy Papers, Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.