staystail

Updated: May 20, 2025

The firing on both sides was tremendous; an idea of it may be obtained from the fact, that more than twenty broadsides were fired in twenty-six minutes! In the mizzen staystail of the General Monk there were afterwards counted, three hundred and sixty-five shot-holes.

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