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Chapter 2 - Old Sea Dog -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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who had taken some of their merchant ships. In three weeks we arrived in the Downs, then sailed for Woolwich. On arriving at the Nore we hauled clown the yellow flag, having been in quarantine ever since we made Dungeness Light, laying three days in the boats, one day at Hythe, besides the Downs.

Arrived at Purfleet, put all my mortars, guns, and stores in a lighter for Woolwich. About three clays later followed, and returned lire remaining stores, was paid off, and the

 
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ship laid up in ordinary. I was obliged to go to Portsmouth to pass for a gunner (being only acting up to this time), which I did on board Admiral Millbank's ship on a Sunday, or I should have been discharged the service, twenty eight days being allowed after the ship was paid off.

Whilst we lay at the moorings the ship sprang a leak, and was hauled on the mud alongside the dockyard, so that what ran into her at high water ran out of her at low, when she was high and dry. I was now appointed gunner of the Matilda hospital ship, Lieutenant James, and a rum fellow he was. This concluded my adventures, extending over a period of nearly twelve years from a boy, to my receiving a gunner's warrant as an officer, and joining the Matilda on May 19th, 1803.

© Peter Smith 2008