wooromoloo

Updated: June 16, 2025

These instructions were acted on immediately by `old Hankey Pankey' to the letter, parties of seamen and marines from each ship in turn landing and patrolling the outskirts of the settlement, in front of which our little fleet of three vessels was anchored; and so we `marked time, so to speak, for the next few months, waiting for the ships belonging to the West African squadron to come up with the admiral himself, as not until then would we be able to resume active operations against the foe, whose defeat of us before their stockade at Wooromoloo we were burning to avenge.

John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson - Young Tom Bowling: The Boys of the British Navy