British sailors hauled 24-pounder guns onto Diamond Rock and commissioned the position as HMS Diamond Rock. Its surrender after a French siege was treated as the loss of a vessel, with a full court of inquiry. In the retold anecdote, a question about failure to manoeuvre receives the reply that the vessel was aground. The story applies the language of naval administration to a fortified rock.
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How Diamond Rock became HMS Diamond Rock
Diamond Rock's guns and naval commission led to its surrender being treated as the loss of a ship.