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- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition 1989 "fother, 3"
- ↑ Banks, Joseph. "Banks' Journal: 12 June 1770". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 3 October 2008.
- ↑ The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, edited by Peter Kemp