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Grahame repels Spanish only after five hours of cannonade
An engagement off Antigua details Grahame’s ship fighting under wet sails and damaged rigging for five hours as the Spanish ship closes to half gunshot. Grahame loses a main stay and several foremast components, mounts 8 four pounders and 2 smaller guns, and carries 1400 barrels of rice while none of his crew are wounded. Additional dispatches report captures, ship movements, and diplomatic notes from Europe and Ireland with local charity efforts in Dublin to aid the poor.
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Nevis
Lisbon
Jamaica
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France
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Edward Travers
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Chat Port
Brest
Derry
Philadelphia
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Chevalier Bethune
Carthagena
William Afton
Clogher
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Carrick
Oates
Waterford
Earl of Thomond
Limerick
Kay
Newgate
Earl of Shelburne
England
Seagrave
Chandlers
Abraham Scot
John Maizedice
John Grattan
St. Nicholas Within
Robert
St. Audean
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