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Can you see what Boatswain is carrying to me in his mouth ...?
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The prince regent had a Newfoundland dog with the typically nautical name Boatswain which was pronounced “Bosun”.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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The prince regent had a Newfoundland dog with the typically nautical name Boatswain which was pronounced “Bosun”.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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The prince regent had a Newfoundland dog with the typically nautical name Boatswain which was pronounced “Bosun”.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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The prince regent had a Newfoundland dog with the typically nautical name Boatswain which was pronounced “Bosun”.
The Pawprints of History STANLEY COREN 2002
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He said Lord Byron had asked to be buried with his Newfoundland dog, called Boatswain, at Newstead Abbey but this never came about.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Do you remember those lines he wrote to the memory of "Boatswain," on the monument he erected in his honour at Newstead Abbey?
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I only knew where the dear old fellow lies; for, what "Boatswain" was to
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It is from the secretary of the National Sailors 'Fair, and conveys the thanks of the Board of Managers to Mrs. Howe "for the great industry and labor in editing the' Boatswain's Whistle. '"
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915
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But what he told the "Boatswain" next takes us back three hundred years and more.
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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