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Updated: May 29, 2025
'Tisn' her fault, you understand: aboard a bombship everything's got to be heavy timbers, scantling, everything about her to stand the concussion. What with this an' her mortars, she sits pretty low; but to make up for it, what with all this dead weight, and bein' short-sparred, she can carry all sail in a breeze that would surprise you.
Whichever of these two classes the ticket man belonged to, he was an incorrigible deserter. "Thirteen out of the fifteen men in lieu that I sent up in the Beaufort East-Indiaman," writes the disgusted commander of the Comet bombship, from the Downs, "have never returned. Burvill, 4 Sept. 1742. Once the ticket man had drawn his money for the trip, there was no such thing as holding him.
The whole thing had blown up. My crew shouted with delight, and the captain of one of the guns performed a brilliant hornpipe. Was it my shells? Or did the bombs from the bombship do the job? Not one of my brave fellows on the Creole have the shadow of a doubt. Every man has a right to his own opinion. The fire slackened, and I went to take the admiral's orders.
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