IN THE ROYAL NAVY.
It is not often that a office] is blown overboard by the discharge from one of his own ship’s guns This is what once happened to Admiral J. Moresby on the China Station. It was during at attack or three pirate junks, which had soughl shelter in the shallow water near the shore. In order to follow them several guns had been placed on a captured junk, and it was ‘aboard this vessel that the incident occurred. Her< is Admiral Moresby's account of the incident Our action had lasted about an hour, and although our junk was repeatedly struck, her beams broken, and she was in a sinking condition generally, yet none of oui men had been hurt. I was the only sufferer. I was standing inadvertently rather too much in froat of the howitzer when it was fired. The concussion blew me overboard. I suffered great pain, but did not know I was permanently injured till after my return to England, when an aurist told me that the drum of my ear was broken.
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 38, 7 May 1907, Page 5
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