A SEA FIGHT BY MISTAKE.
—4 — The Russian outrage in the North Sea recalls (says the "Liverpool Daily Post ">a curious adventure of Captain Crowe, alleged to be "as brave a sailor and ae odd and eccentric a man as ever walked the quarter-deck," in his good ship Mary, when he fell in with two English sloops-of-war "somewhere in themiddle passage where Liverpool ships were engaged in these times." They took his trim-looking vessel for a French cruiser, and ha took them for a couple of the same craft. It mattered not that they were two to one. Night came on, and they could not distinguish each other's flags, so they kept at it until daylight showed the English colours on ail their masts, The cruisers had made several efforts to board him in the dark, and been repulsed with terrible loss. Firing ceased as soon as the mistake was discovered, and the senior commander of the man-c-f----war sent an officer on board with a sulky, civil message to know if they could do anything to repair damages "I want nothing but a certificate to my owner that I have done my duty," was the reply.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 2
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196A SEA FIGHT BY MISTAKE. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXV, Issue 1942, 19 June 1905, Page 2
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