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SPECULATOR (10) Hired lugger No details.
  • 1800 H. HALES, North Sea.
  • 1803 Lieut. Robert YOUNG, Downs.
    On the 19 December 1803 SPECULATOR was cruising off Dunkirk with Gravelines bearing east by south some 4 or 5 miles distant when Lieut. YOUNG sighted four gun boats, full of troops, running along the shore towards Calais.
    He closed and, although the enemy opened fire from six long 4-pounders on the shore, he had the satisfaction of driving all four of them ashore where two were wrecked by the sea breaking over them.

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