Identifier: royalnavy02clow (find matches)
Title: The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Clowes, W. Laird (William Laird), Sir, 1856-1905 Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir, 1830-1916 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer), 1840-1914 Wilson, Herbert Wrigley, 1866-1940 Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 Laughton, L. G. Carr (Leonard George Carr), 1871-
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston and company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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many ; wee returne our thanks with 3 more. TheAssistance convoyed six vessels bound for Tangier. Captain Holden,in due course, dined on board one of them, which, when he left her,gave him five guns, for which the man-of-war returned three.Compliments were, in fact, usually returned with two guns less,when both parties were British; but foreigners were expected toreturn gun for gun. Ships, on parting company, fired three guns.^On joining a senior offtcer, they fired five, the senior returningthree, and the other vessel again returning one. A British consulreceived five guns,-^ and a salute from the trumpets of, Mayds,Where are your Hearts? An over-obsequious Venetian, who salutedwith eleven guns, was snubbed by having only five returned to him, ^ But on parting company with Narbrougb, the Assistance fired eleven, and gavethree cheers, Narbrough answering with eleven, and the Assistance replying with five.2 But the consul at Scanderoou received seven—possibly as a personal compliment.
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= t^ ■2 ==> 1675.) PUNISHMENTS. 223 The Kings birthday was celebrated with thirteen guns/ the lastwith a shott in her. Yet there were noisier and more costlydisplaj^s than these. When Narbrough entered Malta, the Knightsgave him forty-five guns, and the salutes and returns lasted for almost two howers. Again, upon the conclusion of the arrange-ment with Tripoli, the town fired all its guns, and each of Nar-broughs ships returned twentj^-one. On St. Georges Da5% atthe drinking of the Kings health, twenty-five rounds were got ridof. And, at the funeral of a captain, the ship fired forty guns, andcertain Dutch ships, which were in company, fired at least onehundred. There was an excessive amount of drinking in his Majestysships. It was usual, on Saturday evenings, to end the day andweeke with drinking to our wives in punch bowles, and to drinkas well to the King ; and Teonge never omitted to take his share onthese occasions. When land was- sighted, the fact was celebratedin severall

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