In the course of the action at Roanoke Island, a shell burst on the U. S. gunboat Hetzell, and set her magazine on fire. Lieut. Franklin, her executive officer, ordered the men to the magazine to extinguish the flames, but seeing that they hesitated, he took the hose in his own hands and jumped down and extinguished the fire before it reached the powder. A similar occurrence took place on the Ceres from the bursting of a gun, when acting-master Diarmid sprung into the magazine and extinguished the fire.
Raftsman’s Journal, Clearfield, PA