Clowdisley (Cloudesly or Cloudisley) Shovell carrying despatches to safety. Family tradition said that as a boy in the Second Dutch War he carried despatches in his mouth, swimming through enemy fire. He then served with Sir John Narborough whose widow Elizabeth (daughter of John Hill, Commissioner of the Navy) he married in 1691 at All Hallows, Staining. By 1677 he was captain of the Sapphire, spending much of the time in the Mediterranean cruising against the Barbary pirates.

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