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38 - As a Warrant Officer, I bought a Norway yawl eighteen feet long.

39 - This frigate, like most others, was employed looking after French privateers and protecting merchantmen

40 - As we had no prize crew, our crew consisted of only two hundred.

41 - A shot from the Milan killed the men at our wheel, the French captain saw his opportunity and piped up his boarders.

42 - The officers were removed on board the Cleopatra and a prize Captain took charge.

43 - The prize captain let me have a few men, we soon made the deck shipshape.

44 - The Milan left us to our fate as an English ship approached

45 - Two reports were heard, down came the French colours, as the Leander, Captain Talbot, was the largest ship

46 - With few officers, there was just the captain, three lieutenants and doctor above me in rank

47 - In the Cleopatra in 1810, we got on the Thrum Cap Shoal

48 - One of the boatswains was drunk having celebrated being promoted, had his new rank removed.

49 - If they carried French goods they would enter them in the bill of landing.

50 - Foraging parties were landed and brought geese.

51 - Ordered to the Victory, no longer active, to be instructor in seamanship, rigging and gunnery.

52 - They learnt the place of every rope on the ship.

53 - After many years service, my final appointment was at the Royal Naval College

54 - Notice was taken by the admiral, he received two more bars

55 - Visits made

Chapter 4 - There go the ships

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