Battles by Sea |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
able aboard action Actium Admiral Affondatore ahead Alexandria Ambracian gulf anchor Antonius Armada army ashore attack Austrian battle of Actium battle of Lepanto battle of Lissa Brest British fleet Cadiz Cape Captain captured centre Channel Cleopatra coast command Commander-in-Chief Corcyra craft cruisers deck division Don John Drake enemy enemy's line engage England English English Channel fighting fire flagship force fought French fleet frigates galleasses galleys Greek gulf gunnery guns ironclad island Italian Japanese Jervis knots later leeward line-ahead line-of-battle Lissa Lord masts Mediterranean miles Napoleon naval Navy Nelson oars Octavianus officers Persano Persian Persian fleet port Psyttaleia rear Rodney sail Salamis sent ships shore side Sidonia sight signal Spain Spaniards Spanish fleet speed squadron starboard steam stern Straits Sturdee superior tack tactics Tegetthoff tons Toulon Trafalgar triremes Tsushima Venetian vessels victory Vincent warships weather weather gage whilst wind windward wrote Xerxes yards
Popular passages
Page 50 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 204 - What think you, my own dearest love ? At this moment the enemy are coming out, and as if determined to have a fair fight ; all night they have been making signals, and the morning showed them to us getting under sail. They have thirty-four sail of the line, and five frigates. Lord Nelson has but twenty-seven sail of the line with him ; the rest are at Gibraltar, getting water.
Page 208 - Fleet will be brought nearly within gun shot of the Enemy's Centre. The signal will most probably then be made for the Lee Line to bear up together, to set all their sails, even steering sails...
Page 202 - The Second in Command will, after my intentions are made known to him, have the entire direction of his Line to make the attack upon the Enemy, and to follow up the blow until they are captured or destroyed.
Page 176 - A friend in need, is a friend indeed," was never more truly verified than by your most noble and gallant conduct yesterday in sparing the Captain from further loss ; and I beg, both as a public officer and a friend, you will accept my most sincere thanks. I have not failed, by letter to the Admiral, to represent the eminent services of the Excellent.
Page 208 - Chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear up in two columns, as they are formed in order of sailing; a mode of attack his Lordship had previously directed, to avoid the inconvenience and delay in forming a line of battle in the usual manner. The Enemy's line consisted of thirty-three Ships (of which eighteen were French and fifteen Spanish...
Page 202 - my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but it is to place you perfectly at ease respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to your judgment for carrying them into effect.
Page 43 - We must be contented: we have done very well." — "Now," said Nelson, "had we taken ten sail, and allowed the eleventh to escape, when it had been possible to have got at her, I could never have called it well done.
Page 191 - Island in their van ; but nothing could withstand the squadron your Lordship did me the honour to place under my command. Their high state of discipline is well known to you, and with the judgment of the Captains, together with their valour and that of the Officers and men of every description, it was absolutely irresistible.
Page 129 - I deliver it unto your Honour upon the credit of a poor gentleman, that out of my ship there was shot 500 shot of demi-cannon, culverin, and demi-culverin ; and when I was furthest off in discharging any of the pieces, I was not out of the shot of their harquebus, and most times within speech one of another.