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Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

Note 7 — CONQUEROR, 74

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This was then usual. Probably the fate of the Ramillies had a good deal to do with putting it out of fashion, as it certainly had with forcing seamen to consider that there was a right and a wrong tack on which to lie to; and may thus be said to have brought about the discovery of the Law of Storms.

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