The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and PolicyCresset Press, 1954 - 287 sider |
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... squadrons , the Admiral of the Red being the Admiral of the Fleet . Each squadron wore a different coloured ensign , but all the flags had a white canton charged with a red St. George's cross in the top left - hand corner . The Admiral ...
... squadrons , the Admiral of the Red being the Admiral of the Fleet . Each squadron wore a different coloured ensign , but all the flags had a white canton charged with a red St. George's cross in the top left - hand corner . The Admiral ...
Side 109
... squadron off the Spanish coast . She was what every seaman of every age has dreamed of — a treasure ship returning fully laden from the Indies . When she was condemned as fair prize the admiral and the two captains got £ 65,000 each and ...
... squadron off the Spanish coast . She was what every seaman of every age has dreamed of — a treasure ship returning fully laden from the Indies . When she was condemned as fair prize the admiral and the two captains got £ 65,000 each and ...
Side 229
... Squadron , assisted occasionally by French and Ameri- can squadrons . For the next fifty years a squadron of between six and thirty sloops , brigs and frigates was engaged in writ- ing what the historian Lecky has called ' among the ...
... Squadron , assisted occasionally by French and Ameri- can squadrons . For the next fifty years a squadron of between six and thirty sloops , brigs and frigates was engaged in writ- ing what the historian Lecky has called ' among the ...
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action Admiralty allies American Anson Armada army attack Baltic battle battleships became began blockade Board of Admiralty Brest Britain British Cadiz called Cape Captain captured century Channel Fleet coast colonies command convoy Crimean War cruisers deck defeat defence Drake Duke Dutch East Elizabethan Empire enemy England English Europe fighting flagship force fought France French frigates galleasse galleon German Gibraltar Grand Fleet guns harbour hundred invasion island King land later lieutenant Lord High Admiral Marines maritime Mediterranean merchant midshipman Minorca modern Napoleon nation naval history naval officer navigation Nelson never North peace Peninsular War Pepys Pitt port Queen Royal Navy sail sailors Sandwich sea power seamen sent ships shore signal soon Spain Spanish squadron strategy submarines success tactics tion took Toulon trade treaty troops U.S. Navy victory Vincent voyage warship West Indies