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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2595, 2 May 1877, Page 2

It is not generally known, says ,the Argus, that one of those who took: part in the celebrated naval duel in 1813 between the English frigate Shannon, 37 guns, and the American frigate Chesapeke, 50 guns, is living in the colony in hale and hearty health. His name is Thomas Salmon, and he will be eighty years , of. age "next month. . lie is employed as : cook on ' the station of Mr Ford, of \Vannaene, -between Rye and Dromana. He appears to be likely to do a good day's work for' several years to come, and is only too willing to relate the particulars of. the naval conflict in which he was concerned. He narrates with great gusto the fact that it only took them in the Shannon- thirty minutes to " polish off " the Chesapeke, and speaks with some pride of the circumstance^that Captain Broke,- of tHe Shannon",'and his first lieutenant)wSre"th'6 first to cutjtheir way throughthe boarding nettings on to the Chesapeke's deck when the boatswain piped " boarders away." The old man has a thorough contempt for the present style of ironclad men-of-war, which he refers to as " iron pots."