A battle with smugglers in Robin Hood's Bay
The following short extract appeared in The European Magazine, and London Review 1817
About 10 o'clock, P.M. (off Robin Hood's Bay), a smuggling-lugger was taken by one of his Majesty's cutters, after a smart engagement, wherein, it is supposed, many men were killed. About 16 or 18 of the lugger's crew made their escape in the boat (some of them wounded), and landed at Robin Bond's Town; one man died of his wounds, and another had his arm amputated. The Ranger, revenue-cutter, which sustained the action with the smugglers in Robin Hood's Bay,has arrived at Yarmouth, with the smugglers lugger, a very fine vessel, of 165 tons, armed with twelve 9-pounders. The Ranger had three men killed and six wounded.
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