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She is called the 'Rolling Moses; but with what justice I am as yet unable to say. She certainly looks singularly top-hampered, altogether unlike any British ship that I have ever seen. She measures twice as much in the beam as the 'City of Melbourne; is about 2000 tons register; is flat-bottomed, and draws about fourteen feet of water when laden.
Gilbert, furious at the sailors' hints that he was just a little sea-shy, would persist in sticking to the Lilliputian ten-ton Squirrel, which was woefully top-hampered with guns and stores. Before leaving Newfoundland he was implored to abandon her and bring her crew aboard a bigger craft. But no.
But she marked no advance in naval architecture, rather the reverse. She was the last great English ship of medieval times. Twenty-five years after the Field of the Cloth of Gold, Henry was commanding another English fleet, the first of modern times, and therefore one in which the out-of-date Great Harry had no proper place at all. She was absurdly top-hampered and over-gunned.
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