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It told of the loss of the herring-fleet in Douglas Bay in the last century.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892
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One of my friends tells a charming story, very characteristic of our people, of a conversation with the men of the herring-fleet.
The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892
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It was a dark night and a dense fog, and we had perilously to thread our careful way through the herring-fleet, fog-horns blowing all night, whilst our distinguished party bivouacked on deck, every cabin having been secured by folks crowding to the Kirkwall fair; and so we enjoyed a seagoing experience which, however cold and dark, was warmed and brightened by the conversation of clever friends all night through.
My Life as an Author Tupper, Martin F 1886
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Again: when Blake captured the Dutch herring-fleet off Bochness, consisting of 600 boats, instead of destroying or appropriating them, he merely took a tithe of the whole freight, in merciful consideration towards the poor families whose entire capital and means of life it constituted.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 Various 1841
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