Shivver me timbers

Well well there's a hapless tug of a barney if ever I saw one, the USS Admiral James Butt, founding ship of the argentine navy one day they say, high-tailing it away from the Newfoundland sandies and bars and banks up the St Lawrence River with the USS Jeremy Hudson. Two american corvette square riggers that have been hanging around the stricken and sinking USS Lexington this last week around the coast of North Carolina, while she has been offloading men and materielle for Washington. A sad and sorry tale that only the HMS Lavinia can tell, with due apologies lads to Signor Shakespeare.