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It is said by oficora of the ship at the record of the two guna han not benn equaled, for of sixteen shots fired, all hit the target with the exception of one, which struck the Hosting frame on which a rect angle of canvas, twenty-one foot long and Had seventeen feet high, was erected.
it benn in battle the shots would bare struck the water-line of the enemy, a do-
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850 10
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Amoy
1610
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000
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3600 1300
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Vorwaerts Theis
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Italian cruiser
4442
4120
Naguaki
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2127
12,0
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4600
6820
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Diu
Portuguesa gunboat
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610
30
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2000
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Russian cruiser
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Russian gunboat
1050
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8640 12
Russian cruiser
5731
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6
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12,364
44 14,500
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1218
Mandjour
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-1224
1409
Olajny Pallada
Ruasion gunboat
1490
2000
Rustion cruiser
6731 12
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10,900
10
110,803
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1786
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1392
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45
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