Explore "The Ballad of the "Clampherdown"" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It was our war-ship _Clampherdown_ / Would sweep the Channel clean, / Wherefore she kept her hatches close / When the merry Channel chops arose, / To save the bleached marine.
She had one bow-gun of a hundred ton, / And a great stern-gun beside; / They dipped their noses deep in the sea, / They racked their stays and stanchions free / In the wash of the wind-whipped tide.