“...Water was gaining on the pumps. Before 10 am. our furnace fires were extinguished. We had now to rely on manpower with the main pumps and bailing. We knew when the steam pumps failed, the others would not keep the water down because it was coming through the Hawse pipes faster than they could free her. But to avail ourselves of every chance, to prolong the inevitable moment that was surely approaching, over 400 strong arms in relays worked the brakes to the time of a chanty song of “Knock-a-man down.””
[Samoan Hurricane, Kimberly, c.1892]
USS Trenton (1876)
Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly (1830-1902)


I wish I was in Mobile Bay….
Damn the torpedoes! Lieutenant Commander Kimberly served as executive officer of Adm. Farragut's flagship, the USS Hartford, at the Battle of Mobile Bay.