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 | | At 9 p.m., while stretching across under her courses, to get well to windward of her port, the Courageux struck on the rocks at the foot of Ape's hill (Mons Abyla), on the coast of Barbary, and in a very few minutes was a complete wreck. |
 | | Of about 593 officers and men that were on board, 129 only effected their escape ; five by means of the launch that was towing astern, and the remainder by passing along the fallen mainmast to the rugged shore. |
 | | The same gale of wind in which the Courageux was lost nearly proved fatal to the 80-gun ship Gibraltar, Captain John Pakenham, and the Culloden 74, Captain Thomas Troubridge. |
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