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id: 61371
author: Wright, Gary
title: Captain of the Kali
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  Now! And the order went rattle-rattle, click-click, wink, blink ... and reached out and touched Doctor John Ward. He was Comet Colonel John Ward, Terran Confederation, Earth; he was certain of that.


id: 43420
author: Otis, James
title: Off Santiago with Sampson
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sentence: 755
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  Standing with a group of _Texas_ men, Teddy and Bill Jones saw the Spaniard near the line of surf, and as their vessel's speed was checked there came a roar mightier than when the battle was first opened; the doomed ship rocked to and fro as if she had struck a sunken reef, there was an uprending of the iron decks, and then came a shower of fragments that told of the tremendous explosion within the hull of the _Oquendo_. The crew on board the good steamer _Merrimac_ had neither better nor worse quarters than those to be found on any other craft of her class; but to a lad whose experiences of seafaring life had been confined to short excursions around the harbour, this sea parlour was by no means inviting, and save for the incentive which urged him forward, Teddy Dunlap might have allowed himself to become disheartened even before it had been proven that he could take passage secretly.


id: 40689
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: Off to Sea: The Adventures of Jovial Jack Junker on his Road to Fame
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  Finally, Mr. Dicky Plumb, with Ned Rawlings and I, with little Joss, fell to the share of an old fellow with a remarkably roguish expression of countenance. Sometimes we were allowed to remain there longer than at other times.


id: 21487
author: Kingston, William Henry Giles
title: The Boy who sailed with Blake
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  Several captains from other ships coming on board, we retired, following young Robert Blake, who took us into the gun room, where he introduced us to such of the officers of the ship as were below. On one side of us was the _Speaker_, on the other the _Fairfax_, both within hail, and about a score of other ships forming our vanguard; but Admiral Monk, with the main body of the fleet, was still some four or five miles astern.


id: 42099
author: Castlemon, Harry
title: Frank Before Vicksburg The Gun-Boat Series
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  As he approached, that individual appeared at the door, shaded his eyes with his hand, gazed at our hero for a moment, and then sprang out, and greeted him with-- Arrah, Master Frank! That's the way they always do, Master Frank; me old cap seems to give 'em a deal of throuble.


id: 59423
author: Fraser, Edward
title: Famous Fighters of the Fleet Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old Navy
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  Bellerophon_, one of Collingwood's leading ships, the men at quarters on the main deck chalked '_Billy Ruff'n_, Victory or Death' on their guns.[96] How keen was the rivalry among the ships at the head of Nelson's line, as the morning advanced, is shown by two incidents in which the _Neptune_--a 98-gun three-decker like the _Téméraire_, the ship next in the line to her--and the _Téméraire_ herself, both figured. As the _Téméraire_ sheered alongside, the admiral stepped up briskly to the _Victory's_ poop and from there hailed across in a curt tone to the quarter-deck of the _Téméraire_.


