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The Flag-Ship "Ocean", saluting the Royal Squadron, at the Nore, 1844. Royal Navy warship fires cannon in greeting as Queen Victoria's yacht passes the Nore, a sandbank at the mouth of the Thames Estuary: 'The royal yacht, after leaving the Nore, altered her course, and bore upon the north-east, proceeding through the channel between the Long-sand and the coast. The Eclair steam-frigate, the Black Eagle, and the rest of the Government steamers forming the royal escort, following immediately in the rear'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol I.