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HMS Fox

On a hill above Diyatalawa in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) is the outline of a running fox; underneath is '1913 HMS Fox', all done in whitewashed stones. This was reputedly done by crew members who had mutinied, though I have been unable to find any historical reference to this incident.

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