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Updated: May 7, 2025
I saw a good deal of service while on board the `Juno. Whilst still on the station I was transferred with Andrew Barton and others, to the `Dido, twenty-eight-gun frigate, commanded by Captain Towry. These small craft used to be called `Jackass' frigates, but the `Dido' showed that she was not a `Jackass' at all events.
This resolution once arrived at, Lord Hood forthwith set about the work of carrying it out with his accustomed energy. An old twenty-eight-gun frigate, called the "Proselyte," was specially fitted up as a floating battery, and, with the rest of the fleet, taken round to Bastia roads.
"What do you mean by a jackass frigate?" inquired I. "I mean one of your twenty-eight-gun ships, so called, because there is as much difference between them and a real frigate, like the one we are sailing in, as there is between a donkey and a race-horse.
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