by John Marshall

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by John Marshall Royal Naval Biography — Parker… (1823)

In the summer of 1805, Captain Parker commanded the Stately, of 64 guns, in the North Sea. From thence he was sent to the Baltic, where, on the 22d March, 1808, in company with the Nassau, another 64-gun ship, he fell in with the Prince Christian Frederick, a Danish 74, which surrendered after a running fight of near two hours, and soon after grounded near the island of Zealand.
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