Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble), 1878-1944 · London : Sidgewick & Jackson, litd · leaf 389
the year 1747. In Hawkes dispatchto the Secretary to the Admiralty, recording the actionoff Rochelle, in August, 1747, after relating that hekept his wind as close as possible so as to help theEagle and Edinburgh, which had lost her foretopmast,he relates that this attempt of ours was frustrated… … THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ,HE first sixty or seventy years ofthe nineteenth century saw theart of the seaman at its higheststate of perfection. There wasnever anything to equal it eitherbefore or since in the achieve-ments rendered by the sailorswho manned the famous woodenwalls of Nelsons time,…
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