The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"
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The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"
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"The Ballad of the 'Clampherdown'" is a satirical poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1892. The poem describes an engagement between the Clampherdown, a fictional Royal Navy battleship, and a light cruiser of indeterminate origin; she is described as "of the ancient foe", and carrying "a dainty Hotchkiss gun", which implies the French Navy. After the Clampherdown's guns fail to sink the cruiser, and she drifts aimlessly being shelled, she collides with the cruiser, and her crew "out cutlasses, an
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1892 satirical poem written by Rudyard Kipling
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2024-02-10T12:12:37Z
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