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sudden storm, which carried away all the Vanguard's topmasts, washed one man over- 

 board, killed an unfortunate middy and a seaman on board, and wounded others. This 



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ship, which acted her name at the Nile only two months afterwards, rolled and laboured 

 so dreadfully, and was in such distress, that Nelson himself declared, " The meanest frigate 

 out of France would have been an unwelcome guest ! " An officer relates that in the 

 middle of the Gulf of Lyons, Lord Collingwood's vessel, the Ocean, a roomy 98-gun 

 ship, was struck by a sea in the middle of a gale, that threw her on her beam-ends, 

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