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Chapter 3 - 1803 - 1814 -
From There Go the Ships by George Shirley

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WHAT a change it seemed to be on "Home Service," the ship always moored in one place, - never a sail even unfurled, - monotonous in the extreme. My previous life had been so active, so restless, so full of incident, and now one so tame and dull. Before receiving my gunner's warrant, I had a circle of acquaintances among the quartermasters and petty officers, from whom I was now separated, and naturally thrown among the warrant officers of the ship; and as they only consisted of three, gunner, boatswain, and carpenter, it did not always

 
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happen they were suitable to each other, so I bought a Norway yawl about eighteen feet long, and ten feet beam, decked all over, with cabin for myself and it boy. I registered her to sail within a certain distance of the coast, and carry two fowling -pieces. So when I had two or three days to spare from my duties, I used to have a sail down to the Nore. Capital sea-boats were those yawls, never capsize, so broad on the beam, afraid of no rough weather, and carry any amount of sail. Many a night I have dropped my anchor and rode out a stiff gale. The boatmen on

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