d and requested to lower her colours half-mast, as an officer of
the Navy was being interred at South Shields, and all the other
vessels in the harbour "had their colours half staff down" except the
_Eagle_. Because the latter refused, Chester requested her mate to
come on board the _Sentinel_, as the former wished to explain why the
colours should be lowered. An officer was thereupon sent on board the
_Eagle_ to haul them down. Chester demanded an apology for the
disrespect to the deceased officer.

And one could easily quote other similar instances between H.M.S.
_Princess_ and the Revenue cutter _Diligence_: and H.M. gun-brig
_Teazer_ and the Revenue cruiser _Hardwicke_.

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