Famous Fighters of the Fleet Glimpses through the Cannon Smoke in the Days of the Old Navy

Immediately after the surrender of the _Ville de Paris_ Rodney made the signal for the fleet to cease firing and bring-to. There was to be no pursuit. It was a decision for whic...

Clear daylight came about half-past five. It disclosed the entire force of the enemy, both men-of-war and convoy. They were full in sight to the north-east, an irregular array o...

Thus for the present we close the record of this 'blustering adjective' from the point of view of naval history. Enough has been told. 'A nation,' says Guizot, 'is safe in the g...

To support the 'main armament' and provide for all comers, down to hostile torpedo boats, there are on board the _Formidable_, as 'secondary armament,' twelve 6-inch Vickers gun...

Fortunately Commander Faulknor was not of the stamp of Captain Brown. He might well have anticipated a signal of recall and turned his little sloop away to retire out of range a...

The navy owes the name to Charles the Second, who introduced it on the roll of the fleet as a mark of special favour and a paternal compliment to Lucy Walters' ill-starred son,...

At nine o'clock the two fleets were about six miles apart. It was a gloriously fine morning, with the sky almost cloudless. A light breeze blew from the north-west, before which...

The Marquis de Vaudreuil was De Grasse's second in command. There was no better gentleman, from all accounts--never a nobler specimen of a French naval officer of the old school...

Then she was 'the _Victory's_ companion in her closing strife,' as Mr. Ruskin has called the _Temeraire_, 'prevailing over the fatal vessel that had given Nelson death.'[79] Tha...

Cape Trafalgar was sighted from off the deck, we are told, just as the battle was ending, and was made at about eight miles off. On either hand lay ships with shattered bulwarks...

The _Monmouth_ held her hand. She had done her work, and there was no need to do more now. As the _Monmouth's_ gunner, reporting on the night's expenditure, stated, the ship had...

After calling in his chasers Rodney closed his fleet to one cable interval all along the line. His van ships continued meanwhile to lead obliquely across the course that the Fre...

'All the time the navigating lieutenant, with eyes fixed on the chart, was calmly moving the vessel up and down a narrow tortuous passage which we could distinctly see, by peeri...

[Footnote 90: Wrote Collingwood to his wife on the 21st of August: 'I have very little time to write to you, but must tell you what a squeeze we were like to have got yesterday....

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It proved for the _Redoutable_, in the language of the prize-ring, a 'knock-out' blow. As the _Temeraire_ came into collision with the _Redoutable_ she fired her entire broadsid...

The _Glorieux_ was the first of the French to yield, in spite of an extremely gallant effort to save her. About one o'clock, as the breeze began to freshen, the French frigate _...

As the _Sceptre_ went astern, Rodney, with Blane at his elbow, walked out from the quarter-deck on to the starboard gangway at the side of the ship to get a better view. As he g...

Since Faulknor's _Undaunted_, five British men-of-war have borne the name, and in every instance with distinction. Three of them may be referred to here. One _Undaunted_--the _U...

Ships-- British-- Africa, 277 Agamemnon, 79, 81 Ajax, 76, 128, 130, 238 Alcide, 106, 140, 141 Alert, 57 Alexandra (Superb), 289, 293, 306-308, 309 Alfred, 86-87 America, 94, 108...