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In June 1789, Bass passed a naval medical examination, which allowed him to join the navy immediately as 'Mr Bass', first assistant to a surgeon on a first-rate ship. He joined the 'HMS Flirt', a 14 gun sloop under the command of Captain James Norman, serving as Surgeon's mate.

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