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"Likewise one of their line-o'-battle ships was a huge four-decker, called the Santissima Trinidad, and they had some of the best Tyrolese riflemen that could be got scattered throughout the fleet, as we afterwards came to find out to our cost. "Soon after daylight Nelson came on deck.
Such were the words, followed by three cheers, with which his friends parted from him, and left him alone with the captain. "We must break it to her, nephy," said the captain, as they moved towards the cottage. "'Still so gently o'er me stealin", Memory will bring back the feelin'. It won't do to go slap into her, as a British frigate does into a French line-o'-battle ship.
Such were the words, followed by three cheers, with which his friends parted from him, and left him alone with the captain. "We must break it to her, nephy," said the captain, as they moved towards the cottage. "`Still so gently o'er me stealin', Memory will bring back the feelin'. "It won't do to go slap into her, as a British frigate does into a French line-o'-battle ship.
Nor yet of that tremendous fight off Cape Saint Vincent in the same year, when Sir John Jervis, with nothin' more than fifteen sail o' the Mediterranean fleet, attacked the Spaniards wi' their twenty-seven ships o' the line line-o'-battle ships, you'll observe, John Adams an' took four of 'em, knocked half of the remainder into universal smash, an' sunk all the rest?"
"All about it, John? "You don't say that, Jack Brace!" "Yes, I do, John Adams; an' nine French line-o'-battle ships was took, two was burnt, two escaped, and the biggest o' the lot, the great three-decker, the Orient, was blowed up, an' sent to the bottom.
"Why, I've been up to the main truck of a line-o'-battle ship before to-day and am not afraid of climbing! I'm not strange to the sea, my smart chap, let me tell you. My father, though he's a waterman now, is an old sailor, and has taught me pretty well all he learnt." "Aye, aye, that's right enuff; but 'earin of it an' a-seein' it's two different things.
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