As to the loot, I heard there was a fair amount of precious stuff picked up, but most of it was bought up by the prize-master and sent down to Arogee on the elephants. ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)
Now people at Bridlington Quay declared that the lieutenant, though he might have carried off a prize, was certainly not the prize-master; and they even went so far as to say that “he could scarcely call his soul his own.” ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
The prize-master of the pilot-boat honored me with a pressing invitation to join the crew of the felucca, assuring me there was "good picking" along the coast, and he would put me in the way of doing well. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
His pistols were found and appropriated to the use of the prize-master as spoils of the vanquished, and he would have been treated with great harshness had I not interfered and pointed out the brandy bottle as the guilty originator of the plot. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
I thought I should have been allowed to remain as prize-master of the _Fatima_ and sail her up to Zanzibar, as that was what the captain had hinted the night before. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Porto Cabello where the ship Charity was now lying; that in every point of view his design was objectionable, as well as impracticable; and furthermore, the attempt would be an ungrateful return for the civilities and indulgence we had received from the prize-master and his associates. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
I was ordered to go as prize-master, taking fourteen men with me, and carry her to Cape St. Nicholas mole, where I arrived the same evening. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
There were 98 men and boys in the crew, and Fanning was prize-master on board the privateer. ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)
Whipple on his first cruise, and as prize-master carried into Boston the first prize captured by that officer. ❋ Danske Dandridge (N/A)
The crew were all removed from the ship, excepting Lyde and one boy, who, under a prize-master and six men, were to help in sailing her to St Malo. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
Dutch ship from Smyrna bound to Amsterdam, laden with silks and cotton, in which I went as prize-master. ❋ Frederick Hoffman (N/A)
It is a compulsory act of justifiable force, but still of such force as removes from the owner any responsibility for the imprudent conduct of the prize-master. ❋ H. Byerley Thomson (N/A)
The result of the interview was that Barney was made a prisoner once more, and ordered with a prize-master to Plymouth. ❋ Marmaduke Park (N/A)
A prize-master and eight men, armed to the teeth, were put on board. ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)
Hence, where the prize-master refused to take a pilot, and the ship and cargo were lost, restitution in value was decreed. ❋ H. Byerley Thomson (N/A)
With a black, shiny low-crowned hat on his head he made a very creditable prize-master. ❋ Unknown (1923)
It was bulky, but his garments were of an ample cut, and no wretched customs-guard would dare to lay hands on a successful prize-master going to the Port ❋ Unknown (1923)
Porter took so many prizes in the South Pacific that his supply of older officers ran out, and twelve-year old David Farragut was appointed prize-master of one of them, with orders to take her to Valparaiso. ❋ Burton Egbert Stevenson (1917)
By MIDSHIPMAN DAVID FARRAGUT (1813) I WAS sent as a prize-master to the Barclay. ❋ Unknown (1903)
