Robert Louis Stevenson, in “Virginibus Puerisque,” writes an account of
a sea-fight in which he relates this:
Duncan, lying off the _Texel_ with his own flagship, the
_Venerable_, and only one other vessel, heard that the
whole Dutch fleet was putting to sea. He told Captain Hotham to
anchor alongside of him in the narrowest part of the channel and
fight his vessel till she sank. “I have taken the depth of the
water,” added he, “and when the _Venerable_ goes down, my
flag will still fly.” (Text.)
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