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Note 12 — Chapter II · 1852—H.M.S. QUEEN, 116 GUNS

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Burgoyne was drowned, with all but eighteen of his command, in 1871, in the Bay of Biscay, when H.M.S. Captain, struck by a squall, “turned turtle,” being overweighted above her water-line. Eurydice capsized, 1878; H.M.S. Atalanta disappeared, 1880.

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