HMS Reindeer (1804) - Fate

Fate

The following day Blakely decided Reindeer was too badly damaged and set fire to her.

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    If you believe in Fate to your harm, believe it, at least, for your good.
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    I am no Poet here; my pen ‘s the spout,
    Where the rain water of my eyes run out,
    In pity of that name, whose fate wee see
    Thus copied out in griefs Hydrography:
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