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...being sunk by gunfire and torpedoes launched from concealed tubes on shore. While the French digested this ultimatum, over came some Italian bombers on a raid and the French ships joined the British in putting up a hot anti-aircraft barrage. A vote was taken among the French seamen, after which the ships were peacefully surrendered. The British agreed to keep them, immobilized, at Alexandria...
...Dogbody, Surgeon, late of His Majesty's Navy, who passed his evenings after 1817 in the Cheerful Tortoise, Will Tunn Prop., Portsmouth. Doctor Dogbody's stories concerning his peg leg and how he acquired it were told over fine Port Royal rum to a circle of old seamen like himself, fully able to check his reminiscences of ships, battles, commanders. Such was the Doctor's art and agility that nobody ever caught him out, except in the trifling detail that he never lost his leg the same way twice...
...islands, that Australia is an island continent, that New Guinea is no part of it, that there is no continent between Australia and South America. He also discovered that lime or lemon juice prevents scurvy, and was so far in advance of his age that he flogged his seamen only when they preferred rum to fruit juice. In the end he fell a victim to meat eaters. On one of the islands which he had named after the inventor of the sandwich (the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty), the proponent of lime juice was captured by cannibals...
...Impressing British-born American seamen...
Meanwhile the Royal Navy, with the willing help of countless merchant seamen and a host of volunteers, strained every nerve and every effort and every craft to embark the British and Allied troops...