Popular Culture
HMS Devastation is familiar as the ship depicted on "England's Glory" matchboxes.
Her crest was also issued by publishers for use in Monogram and Crest Albums - a popular collecting hobby of the second half of the 19th century.
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“The very nursery tales of this generation were the nursery tales of primeval races. They migrate from east to west, and again from west to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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