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semi-submersible | Origins: But one man of her crew alive... (16) | RE: Origins: But one man of her crew alive... | 07 Jan 10 |
Ships of the line carried hundreds of men, sailors and soldiers together, so five hundred could sound plausible to those used to hearing about such voyages. Tennyson's "The Revenge, A Ballad of the Fleet" mentions how woefully undermanned this smallest of British warships was, trying to sail away with "only a hundred seamen to work the ship and to fight." |