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Billy Ruffian : the Bellerephon and the downfall of Napoleon : the biography of a ship of the line, 1782-1836

Cordingly, David, 1938-2003
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This is the story of the Bellerophon - a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian - from her birth in a small shipyard on the river Medway in 1782, a few years before the French Revolution, to her death, after service as a prison hulk, in a breaker's yard 54 years later.
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