{"id":"01KG8AK7MY97K4DFDTJX8F928J","cid":"bafkreidlchxhmgapcujf3pczvkkmk6fhf4mv2ao7tuasnbfvm7tus7lyvy","type":"subsection","properties":{"description":"# Whitehaven\n\n## Overview\nThis subsection, titled \"Whitehaven,\" is an extracted text segment from [israel_potter.txt](arke:01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW), a file within the [Melville Complete Works](arke:01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW) collection. It spans lines 4435-4447 of the source text and was extracted on January 30, 2026.\n\n## Context\nThe subsection is part of [CHAPTER XVI. THEY LOOK IN AT CARRICKFERGUS, AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN.](arke:01KG8AJJ2BDJ8N0FXM1C21XVSG). It follows the subsection [AND DESCEND ON WHITEHAVEN](arke:01KG8AK7MY0ZMRSHPGXZGA55RZ), which describes the preparations and approach of Paul Jones and his men to Whitehaven. It is succeeded by the subsection [The first fort](arke:01KG8AK7N010M8KSB384TDC9X7), which details Paul Jones's landing and initial actions to seize the fort.\n\n## Contents\nThe text provides a vivid description of the harbor at Whitehaven at low tide, depicting approximately three hundred grounded vessels \"crowded together, in one dense mob.\" The ships are characterized by their \"sooty hue,\" \"black yards,\" and \"sailless, raking masts,\" resembling a \"forest of fish-spears.\" The passage also describes a fort flanking the grounded fleet, with batteries raised from the beach and a disordered heap of \"small rusty guns\" at its base, overlooked by mounted cannon.","description_generated_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:48.341Z","description_model":"gemini-2.5-flash-lite","description_title":"Whitehaven","end_line":4447,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:55.385Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Whitehaven","source_file":"01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW","start_line":4435,"text":"About three hundred of these vessels now lay, all crowded together, in\r\none dense mob, at Whitehaven. The tide was out. They lay completely\r\nhelpless, clear of water, and grounded. They were sooty in hue. Their\r\nblack yards were deeply canted, like spears, to avoid collision. The\r\nthree hundred grimy hulls lay wallowing in the mud, like a herd of\r\nhippopotami asleep in the alluvium of the Nile. Their sailless, raking\r\nmasts, and canted yards, resembled a forest of fish-spears thrust into\r\nthose same hippopotamus hides. Partly flanking one side of the grounded\r\nfleet was a fort, whose batteries were raised from the beach. On a\r\nlittle strip of this beach, at the base of the fort, lay a number of\r\nsmall rusty guns, dismounted, heaped together in disorder, as a litter\r\nof dogs. Above them projected the mounted cannon.\r\n\r","title":"Whitehaven"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJJ2BDJ8N0FXM1C21XVSG","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1DKC9HHJRKY25JZBEXW","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AK7MY0ZMRSHPGXZGA55RZ","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AK7N010M8KSB384TDC9X7","peer_type":"subsection","predicate":"next"}],"ver":3,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.598Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:48.822Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF5C36SQEVDHC9CBNZZJH9K"}}