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and battered to pieces. One account states approximately 349 seamen and marines were killed or drowned. One officer, two midshipmen, 47 seamen, and one marine were saved from the wreck, but nine of these died on the beach. The ship was wrecked a few hundred meters from the spot where a similar sized
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sailed through the Dutch fleet, which fired on her. She did not fire back. Later that morning, after some exchange of shots between the
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1230:Deux Amis
1228:HMS
1186:HMS
1175:HMS
1143:HMS
1062:18°27′0″E
1008:246210883
701:Citations
695:Oldenborg
685:Oldenborg
658:Table Bay
607:Busbridge
559:Discovery
533:Busbridge
522:Busbridge
505:Busbridge
459:Table Bay
420:St Helena
315:Suffren's
222:Sail plan
115:Table Bay
94:Laid down
1398:11 Oct:
1391:Musquito
1358:Ethalion
1354:25 Dec:
1344:19 Dec:
1323:12 Nov:
1305:Charente
1302:31 Oct:
1291:25 Oct:
1280:18 Oct:
1269:14 Oct:
1247:28 Sep:
1226:23 May:
1205:22 Apr:
1195:23 Feb:
1173:31 Jan:
1162:19 Jan:
1152:11 Jan:
842:16 April
621:Wrecking
572:Zeelelie
512:, which
336:Villaret
301:to join
240:Armament
102:Launched
97:May 1780
1347:Mildred
1337:Orestes
1326:Bhavani
1316:Sceptre
1312:5 Nov:
1258:9 Oct:
1251:Blanche
1240:Phoenix
1184:1 Feb:
1166:Grampus
1141:7 Jan:
1130:2 Jan:
1045:in the
797:Sicking
654:Sceptre
643:Sceptre
633:sinking
631:Sceptre
615:Swallow
599:Sceptre
564:Houghly
546:Sceptre
518:Manship
514:Swallow
500:Swallow
495:Manship
486:Sceptre
435:Swallow
416:Sceptre
401:Swallow
397:Sceptre
374:Sceptre
355:Sceptre
326:Sceptre
281:of the
271:Sceptre
198:Draught
87:Randall
83:Builder
75:Ordered
69:Sceptre
45:History
38:Sceptre
1421:Cicero
1411:Aurora
1273:Nassau
1262:Lutine
1155:Ganges
1145:Apollo
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967:
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613:, and
587:Droits
510:Hougly
466:whaler
454:Scipio
448:Komeet
399:, and
395:, HMS
340:Naïade
331:Naïade
293:Career
182:Length
173:1398 (
161:-class
1209:Brave
1177:Eagle
1004:S2CID
800:et al
414:When
363:Haiti
217:Sails
122:Notes
1447:1800
1434:1798
1367:HMS
1293:HMS
1164:HMS
975:ISBN
965:ISBN
951:ISBN
933:ISBN
893:2008
844:2022
676:reef
629:HMS
611:Asia
556:and
538:Asia
520:and
305:Sir
269:HMS
201:5.7m
190:Beam
110:Fate
67:HMS
64:Name
996:doi
992:108
886:337
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