Our Ships and Sailors
Anon
Genre: | Poetry |
Subjects: | Steamships, Accidents |
Institutions mentioned: | Admiralty |
Laments the wreck of the HMS Magaera. Does not think this ironside was worthy of its crew who were 'The same stuff' that manned 'Hearts of oak'. Explains that the ship sent to sea 'by a lot / Of incapable duffers' and had rotten plates and holes in its hull. | |
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