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SEA HISTORY No. 164
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THE ART, LITERATURE, ADVENTURE, LORE & LEARNING OF THE SEA
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The Royal Navy ship Rattler was sailing southbound off the coast of Chile in late June 1794. At around eight o’clock at night, the men on watch heard somethings strange over side. Rattler’s captain later described it: “An animal rose along-side the ship, and uttred such shrieks and tones of lamentation so like thoes produced by the female voice, when expressing the deepest distress as to occasion no small degree of alarm among those who first heard it.”
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