Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 207W. Blackwood, 1920 - England |
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... German merchant flag and " made her number . " She was the Excelsior , a barque of about 2500 tons , homeward bound to Bremen from New Orleans with a cargo ehiefly of tobacco , and was forty days out . forth one of our few remaining ...
... German merchant flag and " made her number . " She was the Excelsior , a barque of about 2500 tons , homeward bound to Bremen from New Orleans with a cargo ehiefly of tobacco , and was forty days out . forth one of our few remaining ...
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... German , brand - new , and origi- nally employed , under German colours , in the island fruit trade ; but now , since war broke out , sheltering at Santa Cruz . She was of about 2500 tons , fast , convenient , incon- spicuous ; and ...
... German , brand - new , and origi- nally employed , under German colours , in the island fruit trade ; but now , since war broke out , sheltering at Santa Cruz . She was of about 2500 tons , fast , convenient , incon- spicuous ; and ...
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... German commerce - destroy- ers had gone to Davy Jones's Looker , and our watch over their supply - ships had there- fore lost much of its acuteness and intensity . Visits were made periodically , however , to " count heads " ; and on ...
... German commerce - destroy- ers had gone to Davy Jones's Looker , and our watch over their supply - ships had there- fore lost much of its acuteness and intensity . Visits were made periodically , however , to " count heads " ; and on ...
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... German ship never sur- renders . " After an hour and a quarter's respite given him for " reconsideration , " the Highflyer opened the ball , and he replied - helpless at anchor as he was - with a broadside . Thereafter he stuck to it ...
... German ship never sur- renders . " After an hour and a quarter's respite given him for " reconsideration , " the Highflyer opened the ball , and he replied - helpless at anchor as he was - with a broadside . Thereafter he stuck to it ...
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... German tao- tio . The Cap Trafalgar had A fortnight after this first destruction by a ship of our squadron of a German armed merchant cruiser , there took place that famous and mon- strous battle of leviathans- the action between the ...
... German tao- tio . The Cap Trafalgar had A fortnight after this first destruction by a ship of our squadron of a German armed merchant cruiser , there took place that famous and mon- strous battle of leviathans- the action between the ...
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