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Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War

Collingwood, Harry

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1523898925
ISBN13: 9781523898923
Publisher: Createspace
Published: May 9 2016
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
On board the Scourge. On the 9th of March, 1793, his Britannic Majesty's gun-brig Scourge weighed, and stood out to sea from the anchorage at Spithead, under single-reefed topsails, her commander having received orders to cruise for a month in the chops of the Channel. The Scourge was a 16-gun brig, but having been despatched to sea in a great hurry, after receiving somewhat extensive repairs at the dockyard, she had only eight long 6-pounders mounted, and, for the same reason, she was considerably short-handed, her crew amounting only to seventy men and boys, of whom quite one half were eminently green hands. War with France had just been once more declared, the various dockyards were busy night and day preparing and turning out ships for service, and the officers were glad to get hold of almost any class of men for their ships, provided only that they were strong and able-bodied.

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