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BLACK JOKE
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Hired lugger
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The Black Joke was an old tune later known as The Sprig of Shillelagh.
"Sublime was the warning which Liberty spoke" Thomas Moore (1779 - 1852). - 1797 According to one report, BLACK JOKE showed herself at the back of Yarmouth Sands, with the signal flying for an enemy, early in the morning of 9 October; to bring the news that Admiral de Winter had quit the Texel on the 7th. with the Dutch fleet. Others say it was the ACTIVE cutter.
- 1799 Lieut. James NICOLSON. On 27 April 1799 she captured the French national chasse-maree REBECCA (16) off Ushant.
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