Slowly the gunfire died down as the gun captains realized there was no target, and the night became black.
He had told the gun captains to aim for the hull.
When the gun captain made to prime the piece, however.
He served as gun captain during his senior year.
All the gun captains turned to look back at Mansur.
He called his gun captains to him and gave them swift orders.
They all had to wait while the man with the wads came back in response to the gun captain's shouts.
He called for all hands to stand by to board, leaving just the gun captains standing by their weapons.
Despite his wounds, he replaced a wounded gun captain for over an hour.
He sat in the gun captain's chair, then twisted to look over his shoulder.