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which were of brass, and carried immensely large marble 
balls. 
It was in repassing or rather escaping through the Dar- 
danelles on the 3rd of March following, that Sir John 
Duckworth’s vessels suffered such discomfiture from the 
stone shot. The ships then proceeded down the channel in 
nearly the same order in which they had sailed up. Hoping 
to propitiate the Turks Sir John fired a salute of thirteen 
guns, this produced an immediate return of shot and shell 
from the two castles, and from the battery on Point 
Pesquies. The other batteries on both sides, successively 
as the ships arrived abreast of them, opened their fire, 
and received a fire in return. The mutual cannonade was 
kept up until nearly noon, when the British squadron 
anchored off Cape Janizary, out of the reach of further 
molestation. 
The following is the detail showing the damage caused by 
the stone shot :—‘‘ The Canopus had her wheel carried away 
and her hull much damaged by the stone shot, but escaped 
with the loss of only three seamen wounded. On board the 
Repulse, a stone shot from the castle on the Asiatic side 
came through between the poop and the quarter-deck, and 
killed two quartermasters, five seamen, and three marines, 
and wounded one lieutenant of marines, two corporals, and 
five privates, also two quartermasters and a boatswain’s 
mate: total, ten killed and ten wounded, the only loss 
which the Repulse on this occasion sustained. The same 
shot badly wounded the mizen mast, broke and carried 
away the wheel, and did other serious damage. The Royal 
George had several lower shrouds cut away, her masts 
slightly wounded ; a large stone shot also stuck fast in her 
cutwater. Her loss amounted to two seamen and one 
marine killed, two officers, one petty officer, twenty-two 
seamen, and two marines wounded: total, three killed and 
twenty-seven wounded. 
*“A stone shot of 800 lbs. weight struck the mainmast 
of the Windsor Castle and cut it more than three quarters 
through; her loss amounted to three seamen killed, one 
petty officer and twelve seamen wounded. On board the 
Standard, a stone shot from the castle of Sestos, weighing 
770 lbs., and measuring 6 feet 8 inches in circumference, 
and 2 feet 2 inches in diameter, entered the lower deck, 
killed four seamen, and having set fire to the salt boxes 
which were on the deck for immediate use, caused an 
explosion, that badly wounded one lieutenant, three petty 
officers, thirty-seven seamen, and six marines; the alarm of 
