Shovel
SIR CLOUDESLEY, an English naval officer; born probably in Clay, a Norfolk fishing village, about maker, but he ran away to sea, and soon 1650. He was apprenticed to a shoeage through the grades of cabin boy and rose by his remarkable ability and courseaman to the quarter deck. He served pirate ships under the walls of Tripoli in the Mediterranean (1674), burned four pirate ships under the walls of Tripoli commanded a ship at the battle in Ban try Bay (1689), and was soon after knighted for his conduct. In 1690 he rose an active part in the battle off Beachy to be rear-admiral of the blue, and took Head; two years later, as rear-admiral of the red, he supported Admiral Russell burned 20 of the enemy's ships. He was sent to Vigo in 1702 to bring home the in the Mediterranean, and led his van at rear-admiral of England. That year he na, but failed in his atrear-admiral of England. That year he took part with Peterborough in the cap- ture of Barcelona, but failed in his atture of Barcelona , tack on Toulon in 1707. On the voyage home his ship, the "Association," struck a rock off the Scilly Isles on the foggy home his ship, the "Association," struck night of Oct. 22, 1707, and went down with 800 men on board. Four vessels of his squadron perished with as many as 2,000. Sir Cloudesley Shovel's body was washed up next day and buried in Westminster Abbey. the minster Abbey. SHOVELER, in ornithology, the Spatula (Ana) clypeata, the broadbill or spoonbill duck, widely distributed over Northern Hemisphere. Length about 20 inches; bill much widened on each side near tip, somewhat resembling that of the spoonbill; head and upper part of neck back brown, breast and abdomen chestin adult male rich green, lower part white, nut brown. It nests in some dry spot near water, and lays from 8 to 14 greennut brown. It nests in some dry spot near water, and lays from 8 to 14 green-