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Desertion and the North American squadron of the Royal Navy, 1745-1812
By Martin Hubley with the assistance of a Nova Scotia Museum research grant

HMS Eagle and iceberg off Sable Island, June 1776

HMS Eagle with HMS Tartar and convoy in distance, off Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 13 June 1776.

Used by permission of National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. LOG N/E/10, "Logbook of HMS EAGLE, kept by Quinton Hamilton, England to Halifax, with daily sketches of ship, 1778." Enlarge image

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