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Great deeds are done here on the seas, and the greater the deeds because they are so little known and so little rewarded. It is to these men of the merchant service, that the country and army should take off their caps, for their dauntless courage and unselfish effort.

Their unceasing vigilance and indifference to personal risk, has kept open the gateway of commerce, and made possible the duration of war, by carrying on the vital overseas transport and keeping united our island home and scattered empire. It is in such men that the power of the British nation lies. Germany with her military dogma can never breed such men as British Sailors.

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