REALLY A SARDINE
Everyone knows the tale of the sardine that blocked the harbour at Marseilles. It is one of the most hoary of "wheezes" worked on visitors to that f amicus city. But now it seems ;tr.fc) ( t this classic jest is true after all (writes a Morning Post contributor). It was a corvette, La Sardine, that fought in the French revolutionary wars. Toulon was being besieged by the French, held as it was by a British fleet and army, and to prevent the latter from effecting a diversion at Marseilles, La Sardine put hqrself in the mouth of the harbour, and was scuttled by her captain's orders. So, at least, says the learned Abbe Marius Rocher, who has unearthed the fact from the dust of the past and communicated it to the Academy.
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Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2236, 17 November 1928, Page 2
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135REALLY A SARDINE Waipa Post, Volume 37, Issue 2236, 17 November 1928, Page 2
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