Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
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and division should maintain these directions as near as they could,
although the number of ships in every division were the less, without attending the coming in of all the ships of every division. 31. And that these ten ships, in regard of the munition and materials for the army and the horses which were carried in them, should attend the rear-admiral and not engage themselves without order, but should remain and expect such directions as might come from our admiral or rear-admiral. Peter Bonaventure Captain Johnson Sarah Bonaventure Captain Carew Christian Captain Wharey Susan and Ellen Captain Levett William of London Captain Amadas Hope Sir Thomas Pigott, Knt. Chestnut Fortune Fox Truelove There was no difference between the articles for the admiral's squadron and those for the vice-admiral's and rear-admiral's, save in the names of the ships of every division, and that their squadrons had not any particular reserve, nor above five or six ships apiece in the third division, for want of ships to make up the number of nine; the munition and horse ships which belonged to their squadrons being unapt to fight, and therefore disposed into a special division of ten ships by themselves to attend the general reserve. |
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