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Updated: June 4, 2025
I drew nearer, that I might not lose a word of what Turner said; and then he narrated, in the following words: "Well, messmates, the Royal George was a hundred-gun ship; and what we don't often see now, when I first belonged to her, her guns were all brass.
Horses and carriages were swept away; bridges were torn loose and floated off; numbers of houses were moved from their foundations; a full regiment of carbineers, who had taken refuge on the roof of their barracks, perished in the furious torrent. At Cronstadt the waters rose so high that a hundred-gun ship was left stranded in the market-place.
Why, if I had been appointed to a hundred-gun ship on the day when we returned together after the loss of the Speedy, I could have got volunteers enough for her in twenty-four hours.
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