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|PORT WATCH, NO 21,              WILLIAM FOSTER,          |
|Second Part.            Captain of the Forecastle.     |
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|REEFING.              |Head Bowlines.                    |
|TACKING OR WEARING.   |Forecastle.  Let go head bowlines. |
|                      |  Let go and shorten in foretack  |
|                      |  and belay it.                   |
|GETTING UNDER WAY.    |Head Bowlines.  Downhauls and      |
|                      |  head-sheets.                    |
|ANCHORING.            |Head Bowlines, Sheets and Tacks.  |
|                      |  Downhauls.                      |
|LOOSING SAILS.        |Foretopmast Staysail.             |
|FURLING.              |Head Bowlines and Downhauls,      |
|                      |  Staysail.                       |
|MOORING AND UNMOORING.|Forecastle.                       |
|BOAT.                 |Professor’s Barge, stroke-oar.    |
|MESS.                 |No. 11.                           |
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The crew had been in training a month before an attempt
was made to set more than one sail at once; but by
this time the officers knew the orders, having practised
every day since the organization.  The petty officers
had been appointed, and had, to some extent, become
familiar with their duties.
The boys still continued to wonder when the Young
America would go on a cruise, for they were very anxious
to see the blue water, and to roll on the great waves
of the Atlantic; but they were so constantly occupied
with ship’s duty and their studies, that the
time did not hang heavily on their hands.  Two
months of constant practice had made tolerable seamen
of them, and the discipline of the ship went on regularly. 
The young officers, as Mr. Lowington had promised,
began to conduct the evolutions and give the orders.
On the 1st day of June, after breakfast, the students
were thrown into a fever of excitement by an unusual
order, and they ventured to hope that the ship was
to leave her moorings.
“Mr. Gordon, you will pipe all hands to muster,”
said Captain Carnes to the first lieutenant.
“Pass the word for the boatswain,” added
Gordon to one of the midshipmen, who stood near him.
This call was answered, not by Peaks, who no longer
performed the duties of boatswain, but by one of the
students, who had been appointed to this position.
“Pipe all hands to muster, boatswain,”
said the first lieutenant, as the petty officer touched
his cap to him.
“All hands on deck, ahoy!” shouted the
boatswain, as he piped the call.
This was an unusual order for that time of day, the
forenoon being appropriated to study for each watch
in turn; and those who were below hastened on deck
to ascertain what was to be done.
“All hands, stations for loosing sail!”
piped the boatswain, when ordered to do so by Gordon.