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ing, but only for bravado, for as soon as the Con 

 stitution stood across her forefoot she struck. At 

 5.25 she was taken possession of by Lieutenant Par 

 ker, ist of the Constitution , in one of the latter's 

 only two remaining boats. 



The American ship had suffered comparatively 

 little. But a few round shot had struck her hull, 

 one of which carried away the wheel; one 18- 

 pounder went through the mizzenmast ; the foremast, 

 maintopmast, and a few other spars were slightly 

 wounded, and the running rigging and shrouds were 

 a good deal cut; but in an hour she was again in 

 good fighting trim. Her loss amounted to 8 sea 

 men and i marine killed; the 5th lieutenant, John 

 C. Aylwin, and 2 seamen, mortally, Commodore 

 Bainbridge and 12 seamen, severely, and 7 seamen 

 and 2 marines, slightly wounded; in all 12 killed and 

 mortally wounded, and 22 wounded severely and 

 slightly. 86 



"The Java sustained unequally injuries beyond 

 the Constitution" says the British account. 87 These 

 have already been given in detail ; she was a riddled 

 and entirely dismasted hulk. Her loss (for discus 

 sion of which see further on) was 48 killed (in 

 cluding Captain Henry Lambert, who died soon 

 after the close of the action, and five midshipmen), 

 and 1 02 wounded, among them Lieutenant Henry 

 Ducie Chads, Lieutenant of Marines David Davies, 

 Commander John Marshall, Lieutenant James Saun- 



86 Report of Surgeon Amos A. Evans. 

 i "Naval Chronicle," xxix, 452. 



