| ID: | 23787 |
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| Entry Text: | Vale, Brian. A Frigate of King George: Life and Duty on a British Man-of-War, 1807-1829. London: I.B. Tauris; New York: Palgrave, 2001, xii, 204 pp. HMS Doris, 36 guns; 4-year commission, 1820s, model for peacetime duties of RN; traced career of officers. |