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May 14, 2015 at 1:01 pm #9464
Nicholas Blake
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Metal cladding: in 1811 Captain Brown reported the Ulysses’ hawseholes prepared for iron cables and consequently damaging the hemp ones. He doesn’t say what the preparation was, since he was writing to the Admiralty, but it seems likely. (PRO: ADM 1/1551)