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| | 1809 - Cyane and Cérès |
 | | In this smart affair, the Cyane received 23 shot in the hull, had her masts, yards, rigging, and sails a good deal cut, and lost one seaman and one boy killed, one master's mate (David Jones) mortally, and six seamen slightly wounded. |
 | | On the same afternoon, observing a flag of truce on a battery near Point Messino, Captain Staines detached the boats to the spot ; and, after spiking four 36-pounders on the battery and destroying the carriages, the boats took off 15 deserters. |
 | | p.m., finding that the Cyane and Espoir lay becalmed in the offing, and considering the gun-boats in the bight of the bay was no obstacle, the French commodore weighed and put to sea with the Cérès, Fama, and 20 gun-boats, bound to Naples. |
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