The Royal Navy: A History from the Earliest Times to the Present, Volume 2Sir William Laird Clowes, Sir Clements Robert Markham, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Herbert Wrigley Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Leonard George Carr Laughton S. Low, Marston and Company, limited, 1898 |
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action Admiral afterwards Algerine Allies anchored April ashore attack August Ayscue Badiley battle Beachy Head Blake boats Brest burnt Cadiz Capt Captain John Captain Thomas Captain William captured Channel Charles chased Clowdisley Shovell coast command convoy cruise cruisers Duke Dunquerque Dutch Dutch fleet Dutch ships Earl Edward enemy engaged England English ships Evertsen expedition fell fight fire fireships flag force fought France French frigates Gibraltar guns Henry Hist Holland hundred island James John Leake July June killed King land Lord Lord High Admiral lost Mediterranean men-of-war merchant merchantmen Monck naval Navy officers Penn Phineas Pett pirates Plymouth port Portuguese Prince Prince Rupert privateers prizes Rear-Admiral returned Richard Robert Rooke Royal Royal Navy Ruijter Rupert sailed seamen sent Sir Clowdisley Sir George Sir John small craft Spain Spanish squadron taken took Tourville troops vessels Vice-Admiral West Indies wind wounded Wrecked
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Page 373 - When Du Casse arrived at Carthagena, he wrote a letter to Benbow to this effect : — " Sir, " 1 had little hope on Monday last but to have supped in your cabin; but it pleased God to order it otherwise. I am thankful for it. As for those cowardly captains who deserted you, hang them up ; for, by God, they deserve it.
Page 174 - I am bound to let your honours to know in general, that there was much baseness of spirit, not among the merchant-men only, but many of the State's ships ; and, therefore, I make it my earnest request, that your honours would be pleased to send down some gentlemen to take an impartial and strict examination of the deportment of several commanders, that you may know who are to be confided in, and who are not. It will then be...
Page 116 - That the ships of the Dutch, as well ships of war as others, meeting any of the ships of war of the English Commonwealth in the British seas, shall strike their flags and lower their topsail, in such manner as hath ever been at any time heretofore practised under any forms of government.
Page 265 - Pen was struck with the order ; but did not go to argue the matter with the duke himself, as he ought to have done, but obeyed it. When the duke had slept, he, upon his waking, went out on the quarter-deck, and seemed amazed to see the sails slackened, and that thereby all hope of overtaking the Dutch was lost.
Page 225 - After they goe to their station, viz. on the poope, and sound 3 levitts in honour of the morning. At 10 wee goe to prayers and sermon ; text, Zacc. ix. 9. Our Captaine had all his officers and gentlemen to dinner with him, where wee had excellent good fayre : a ribb of beife, plumb-puddings, minct pyes, &c.
Page 213 - Cadiz, and plied to sea. In the evening we espied eight sail some five or six leagues to the westward of Cadiz, we using the best means that we could to meet with them the next day ; which we did ; it being little wind at NE It was nine of the clock before we came up with them ; but having a fresh gale in the night, all but we and the Bridgewater were to the leeward, and could not come up to us. But when we came to the fleet, it proved to be the Spanish fleet come from the West Indies, which were...
Page 265 - And all the duke's domestics said, he had got honour enough : why should he venture a second time ? The duchess had also given a strict charge to all the duke's servants, to do all they could to hinder him to engage too far.
Page 484 - ... proved to the satisfaction of the court, which decided that the officer of the watch, the mate, was guilty of negligence and disobedience. Had no particular result attended on his fault, possibly no severe notice would have been taken of it. As it was, his sentence seems, in the present day, peculiar. It was ordered ' that he be carried with a halter about his neck from ship to ship, to all the ships at Chatham and Gillingham, and his crime be read by beat of drum by each ship's side ; that all...
Page 114 - December, one thousand six hundred fifty and one, and from thence forwards, no goods or commodities whatsoever, of the growth production or manufacture of Asia, Africa or America...
Page 225 - M's reading in c. 38, 11. According to Scbard it is ' genus supplicii nautici, cum quis sublevatus posteriori corporis parte ad lignum veheinenti impulsu adigitur '. A similar punishment is thus described in an English treatise temp. Elizabeth. ' The ducking at the mayne yarde arme is, when a malefactor by having a rope fastened under his armes and abowte his myddle and under his breatche. is thus hoysed upp to the end of the yarde ; from •whence he is againe vyolentlie lett fall intoe the sea...