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Updated: June 9, 2025
"She was one of the finest ships in the world," we are told, "carrying sixty-four guns long 32-pounders on the main, and 42-pound carronades on the upper deck and was filled with flour, ammunition, medicines, and marine stores for eighteen months' consumption.
'Another 42-pound gun burst at the Grand Battery. 'Captain Hale is dangerously hurt by the bursting of another gun. He was the mainstay of our gunnery since Captain Rhodes's misfortune' a misfortune due to the same cause. But, in spite of all such drawbacks on the British side, Louisbourg got much the worst of it.
During the whole of Sunday our gunners played havoc with the enemy, the shooting of the Naval Brigade being of such a nature that even thus early in the fight the big gun of the bluejackets, with its 42-pound lyddite shell, struck terror into the hearts of the enemy. But the Boers were not idle.
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