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Beveziers

The Fleets at the Battle of Beachy Head, 1690: Part 2

07/04/2014 by J D Davies

Guest blogger Frank Fox presents the second half of his important new assessment of the fleets that fought in the Battle of Beachy Head. Next week, I’ll be reporting on the Oxford Naval Conference in honour of John Hattendorf, which I’m attending.

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The Dutch squadron, commanded by Cornelis Evertsen, Lieutenant-Admiral of Holland and Westfriesland, formed the van of the allied fleet.  The twenty-two ships, commanders, and their armament are given in Evertsen’s letters written after the battle and published in Hollandsche Mercurius, pp. 202-208.  The manning figures are intended complements and not the actual numbers aboard.  Most are from a list in J C M Warnsinck, De Vloot van den Koning-Stadhouder 1689-1690 (1934), p. 82; and from the appendices in J C De Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche Zeewezen, v. 3 (1869), pp. 730-739.  The letters in the ADM column indicate the admiralties to which the ships belonged; ‘A’ is Amsterdam, ‘M’ is the Maas (Rotterdam), ‘N’ is the Noorderkwartier (North Quarter), and ‘Z’ is Zeeland.  The Dutch squadron was in three divisions, with the flagships and division commanders shown below in bold type.  The ships of the van division flew a pendant at the fore, those of the centre division a pendant the main, and those of the rear division a pendant at the mizzen.  Dutch flag-officers all flew the national tricolour as command flags.  These were at the main for lieutenant-admirals, at the fore for vice-admirals, and at the mizzen for schout-bij-nachts (rear-admirals).  In previous Dutch sea-battles, the ships had worn various combinations of several flags as ensigns and jacks to signify their admiralty affiliations, but whether this applied in 1690 is not clear.

The sources for the Dutch squadron note that there were four fireships, but do not identify them other than giving the names of three of the commanders.  Dutch researcher Carl Stapel found the fourth commander and two of the fireship names (matched to commanders) in admiralty reports from April 1690, and a third fireship  and commander (Van Brakel’s Suikermolen) turned up in the vast data compiled by James Bender for his soon-to-be-published Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600-1714, which he graciously made available.  The remaining fireship, expended in action under Commandeur Thameszoon of Amsterdam, I have tentatively identified as the Kroonvogel; she was the only Amsterdam fireship in 1690 aside from the Suikermolen which does not appear in later Dutch fleet lists.  Perhaps uniquely for a Dutch fleet in battle in the seventeenth century, there were no light frigates present, as noted in one of Evertsen’s letters appearing in Hollandsche Mercurius, 1690, p. 206.

The published lists of the Dutch squadrons do not give the forenames of the commanders.  I have filled in most of these from Mr Bender’s data; by chance, two that he could not supply appear in English warrants for travel to the Netherlands for officers of ships that were lost on the English coast after the battle – Jan van der Poel and Cornelis Calis (NA, ADM 44/339, pp. 307 and 314).  Only two of the flag-captains (noted below) have so far been identified.

ADM       SHIP                            GUNS       MEN             COMMANDER

Van Division                                                                                    

A         Wapen van Utrecht           64           315             Pieter Claassen Decker

N         Alkmaar                           50           200             Jan Kalff

Z          Tholen                             60           330             Cornelis Calis

N         Westfriesland                 82           450             Vice-Adm. Gerard Callenburgh

A         Prinses Maria                    92           500             S.b.N. Gilles Schey

A         Castricum                          52           240             Ferdinand Joan Kuyper

A         Agatha                               50           210             Willem van der Zaan

 

Centre Division

A         Stad en Lande                    52           210             Abraham Taalman

N         Maagd van Enkhuizen        72           370             Jan van der Poel

A         Noord Holland                      44           190             Rudolf Swaan

M        Maagd van Dordrecht          60           300             Anthonij Pieterson

A         Hollandia                           70           360             Lt-Adm. Cornelis Evertsen /

Capt. Hendrik van Toll

M        Veluwe                                 60           375             S.b.N. Jan van Brakel /

Capt. Matthias De la Cave

M        Provincie van Utrecht          50           210             Jan van Convent

M        Maas                                   64           340             Jan Snellen

 

Rear Division

A         Friesland                               68           350             Philips van der Goes

A         Elswout                                 50           210             Adriaan Noortheij

A         Reigersbergen                       74           360             Abraham Ferdinand van Zijll

Z          Gekroonde Burg                62           350             Vice-Adm. Karel van de Putte

N         Noord Holland                       72           320             S.b.N. Jan Dick

Z          Veere                                    60           325             Cornelis Jansz. Mosselman

Z          Kortgene                              50           240             Andries de Boer

 

 

Fireships (not in line)

    A             Suikermolen                       4              25             Abraham van Brakel

A             Kroonvogel?                           6              22             Thameszoon

N             Maagd van Enkhuizen            6              22             Muijsevanger

Z              Burg Etna                              4              25             Cornelis Antheuniszoon

The aftermath of the battle: Richard Endsor's painting of the burning of the third rate Anne at Pett level, where her remains can still be seen (see previous posts on this blog)
The aftermath of the battle: Richard Endsor’s painting of the burning of the third rate Anne at Pett level, where her remains can still be seen (see previous posts on this blog; thanks to Richard for giving permission for the use of his work)

The English fleet was under Admiral Arthur Herbert, Earl of Torrington (1648-1716), who was the overall allied commander.  The usual source for the English order of battle is Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy . . . , v. 2, p. 335.  But this is incomplete in omitting light frigates and the stations of the fireships.  A lesser known alternative that does give the approximate stations of the fireships is Memoirs Relating to the Lord Torrington, ed. J K Laughton, (Camden Society, 1889), p. 50.  The Torrington referred to in this work is not Arthur Herbert, but George Byng, Viscount Torrington from 1721 and captain of the third-rate Hope in 1690.  These sources disagree slightly in that Clowes states that the fourth-rate Constant Warwick was not in the line, while Byng assigns her a station (as shown below).

The light frigates and small warships omitted by the published sources are identified in the Admiralty’s monthly fleet distribution lists (NA, ADM 8/2).  The presence of several not mentioned in accounts of the battle were verified from their logs, preserved in NA, ADM 52/87 (Portsmouth), ADM 51/384 (Garland), ADM 52/69 (Milford), ADM 51/3963 (Salamander), and ADM 51/214 (Concord).  I have taken the minutely detailed data in ADM 8/2 as the most reliable authority for captains, guns, and complements of all ships.

The English had an overall strength of thirty-five men-of-war of the fourth rate or larger, seven light frigates and small warships, sixteen fireships, and one hospital ship.  In addition, the fleet was accompanied by a swarm of small ketches and smacks which had been hired as tenders and utility craft for the men-of-war.  They are not listed here because those actually present seem unrecorded.  But these vessels, their masters, and the ships to which they were assigned can be found in NA, ADM 1/3560, fo. 805; and ADM 49/29, fos 39v-52r and 61v-62r.

The English formed the centre and rear squadrons of the allied fleet, with the flagships indicated below in bold type.  The centre, designated the Red Squadron, was in three divisions; while the rear, designated the Blue Squadron, was undivided (two expected flag-officers were missing; Sir Clowdesley Shovell had not returned from escorting King William III to Ireland, and Henry Killigrew’s squadron was delayed in coming home from the Mediterranean).  In the Red Squadron, Torrington flew a Union flag at the main, his vice-admiral in the van division a red flag at the fore, and the rear-admiral a red flag at the mizzen.  The ships of this squadron displayed a red pendant at the main and wore the red ensign.  In the Blue Squadron, the only flag-officer, Rear- Admiral Delavall, flew a blue flag at the mizzen.  All of his ships had a blue pendant at the main and wore the blue ensign.  As usual, all the English ships wore a small Union flag as the jack.

Several vessels just missed inclusion in this list.  The fourth-rates Assurance, Foresight, Phoenix, and Mary Galley, along with the fifth-rate Play Prize (plus an unidentified Dutch man-of-war) came to the fleet the day after the battle; the sixth-rate Julian Prize was two days late (NA, ADM 52/110, Suffolk master’s log; NA, ADM 52/66, Mary Galley master’s log; and NA, ADM 51/494, Julian Prize captain’s log).

RATE       SHIP                              GUNS        MEN             COMMANDER

Red Squadron (centre) – three divisions

Van Division

    3          Plymouth                             60           340             Richard Carter

4          Deptford                                   50           280             William Kerr

3          Elizabeth                                  70           460             David Mitchell

2          Sandwich                              90           660          Vice-Adm. Sir John Ashby /Capt.William Bridges

fs              Wolf                                        8              45             Thomas Urry

fs              Vulture                                  8              45             James Moody

3          Expedition                                70           460             John Clements

3          Warspite                                   70           420             Stafford Fairborne

4          Woolwich                                 54           280             James Gother

3          Lion                                          60           340             John Topley

 

Centre Division

4          Constant Warwick                   42           180             John Beverly

3          Rupert                                      66           400             George Pomeroy

2          Albemarle                                 90           660             Sir Francis Wheeler

3          Grafton                                     70           460             Henry, Duke of Grafton

fs              Roebuck                                 8              45             Isaac Townsend

1          Royal Sovereign                 100            815        Adm. Earl of Torrington /Capt. John Neville

fs              Dolphin                                   8              45             William Vickers

fs              Owner’s Love                      10             40             Thomas Heath

2          Windsor Castle                         90           660             George Churchill

fs              Speedwell                             8              45             John Mason

3          Lenox                                       70           460             John Granville

3          Stirling Castle                          70           460             Anthony Hastings

 

Rear Division

3          York                                           60           340             Thomas Hopson

3          Suffolk                                       70           460             Wolfran Cornwall

3          Hampton Court                         70           460             John Layton

2          Duchess                                    90           660         Rear-Adm. George Rooke /Capt. Thomas Gillam

fs              Hound                                     8              45             Thomas Fowlis

fs              Spy                                         8              45             Frederick Weighman

3          Hope                                          70           460             George Byng

3          Restoration                              70           460             William Botham

 

Blue Squadron (rear) – undivided

3          Anne                                           70           460             John Tyrrell

fs              Fox                                           8              45             William Stone

fs              Thomas & Elizabeth                10             40             Thomas Marshall

4          Bonaventure                               48           230             John Hubbard

3          Edgar                                          72           445             John Jennifer

3          Exeter                                         70           460             George Meese

3          Breda                                          70           460             Matthew Tennant

1          St. Andrew                                  96           730             Robert Dorrell

fs              Charles                                    6              25             Anthony Roope

2          Coronation                              90           660             Rear-Adm. Sir Ralph Delavall /

Capt. John Munden

fs              Griffin                                      8              45             Peregrine Clifford Chamberlain

fs              Hawk                                       8              45             William Harman

2          Royal Katherine                         84           540             Matthew Aylmer

fs              Cygnet                                   10             40             Robert Wilmot

3          Cambridge                                  70           420             Simon Foulks

3          Berwick                                      70           460             Henry Martin

4          Swallow                                     48           230             Benjamin Walters

3          Defiance                                     64           400             John Graydon

fs              Hunter                                     8              45             Thomas Kercher

fs              Cadiz Merchant                     12             45             David Greenhill

3          Captain                                      70           460             Daniel Jones

 

 

Light Frigates – not in line, stations unknown

5               Portsmouth                         32           135             Francis Wyvell

5               Milford                                  32           135             Charles Hawkins

5               Garland                                 30           130             Thomas Robinson

6               Sally Rose                             22             80             Thomas Gardner

6               Saudadoes                           16             75             Roger Newton

6               Fubbs yacht                         12             40             John Guy

6               Salamander bomb               10             35             William Martin

 

Hospital Ship

5               Concord                                  —               —             Ralph Crow

 

Acknowledgements

 I wish to thank James Bender and Carl Stapel for helping to fill out details of the Dutch squadron, and Richard Endsor for photographing numerous documents in the National Archives and for his painting that accompanies the blog.  Dr Peter Le Fevre kindly supplied other useful documents.

 

 

 

 

                               

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The Fleets at the Battle of Beachy Head, 1690: Part 1

31/03/2014 by J D Davies

I’m delighted to welcome Frank Fox as my guest blogger, both this week and next!

Frank’s name will be well known to many students and readers of naval history. A former Supply Officer in the US Navy, he is the author of two of the most important books about late 17th century naval history, Great Ships: The Battlefleet of King Charles II (1980) and The Four Days Battle of 1666 (2009, originally published as A Distant Storm in 1996). The latter describes the subject of the forthcoming Quinton novel, The Battle of All The Ages, and was one of my principal research sources for it. Frank is currently working on aspects of the Battle of Beachy Head, one of the most controversial engagements of the age of sail, and this week, he presents important new evidence about the French fleet at the battle. The revised listings of the Anglo-Dutch fleet will follow next week. So over to Frank!

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Many thanks to J D Davies for making his site available.  The Battle of Beachy Head, fought on 30 June 1690 by the English calendar, was a victory achieved by a great French fleet over a rather smaller combined English and Dutch fleet.  While studying this engagement for its possible archaeological relevance for a shipwreck site on the British coast (for which more will soon be forthcoming here), I found that the published fleet lists for the battle are not fully satisfactory.  Whether from French, Dutch, or British sources, all are incomplete and some contain demonstrable mistakes.  The lists offered here present more detailed information, though unknowns still remain.

Contemporary illustration of the Battle of Beachy Head, 30 June 1690 (known to the French as Beveziers)
Contemporary illustration of the Battle of Beachy Head, 30 June 1690 (known to the French as Beveziers)

The French fleet, commanded by Vice-Admiral Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, Comte de Tourville, has been best known from a list in Léon Guérin, Histoire Maritime de France (1851), v. 3, pp. 449-453.  This was accepted by the most frequently cited British authority, William Laird Clowes, The Royal Navy, A History from the Earliest Times to the Present (1898), v. 2, p. 335.  Regrettably, Guérin and Clowes omit two ships, reverse the stations of two others as compared with other lists, give improbable numbers of guns for two vessels, and do not indicate the stations of fireships and light frigates.  A less known list in Eugène Sue, Histoire de la Marine Française (1856), v. 4, pp. 557-558, shows the complete order of battle including stations of the fireships and light frigates.  Sue does not give men and guns, but these appear in other sources.  First, there is a list in the Dutch newspaper Hollandsche Mercurius from July 1690, pp. 195-197.  It was drawn up a little before the final order of battle was adopted, and thus gives a different order of fighting and includes several vessels which were eventually left behind with a squadron of galleys.  It does, however, offer plausible armament figures.  Second, a panoramic drawing of the battle in the French archives is reproduced in Charles De La Roncière, Histoire de la Marine Française (1900), v. 6, following p. 72.  It marks each ship with a number corresponding to a keyed handwritten fleet list including men and guns.  Unlike other sources, this one gives what appear in many cases to be actual numbers of men aboard instead of merely rounded complements.  For better or worse, they are accordingly used in the list below.  A few are hard to read due to unlucky ink blots, hence the occasional question mark.  Guérin allots all fireships 30 men, which uniformity seems unlikely, but there is no other source.

Many authorities have remarked on the baffling inconsistencies in numbers of guns listed for the French ships in the various sources for this battle.  As these appear unresolvable, I have given the highest and lowest numbers of guns for each vessel as they appear in Hollandsche Mercurius, Guérin, and the drawing in La Roncière.  Wildly inaccurate figures for two ships reported by Guérin (80 guns for the third-rate Le Marquis and only 58 for the first-rate La Couronne) have been disregarded, as have two clear mistakes in Hollandsche Mercurius (only 46 guns for the second-rate Le Pompeux and 80 guns for the third-rate Le Hardy).  The results agree well with the armament ranges in Pierre Le Conte, Lists of Men-of-War 1650-1700, Part II, French Ships, 1648-1700 (Society for Nautical Research Occasional Publication no. 5, 1935).  The only vessel for which the variation still seemed excessive is Château-Renault’s flagship Le Dauphin-Royal, for which the armament in the three sources is given as 90, 100, and 110 guns.  The largest figure (from Guérin) is questionable in that Tourville insisted on mounting rather fewer than the specified 110 guns in his own Le Soleil-Royal, which was considerably larger and vastly more strongly manned than Château-Renault’s ship.  And, a report printed in Guérin, v. 3, pp. 313-316, written from the fleet five days after the battle by Cartigny, Commissionaire and Inspecteur Général de la Marine, gives the armament of Le Dauphin-Royal as 100 guns.  For the present, it must be left for French researchers to settle this matter.

The line included seventy ships.  Excluded from the line were five light frigates and eighteen fireships. The fleet was organized into three squadrons of three divisions each, but the available sources do not show the boundaries between divisions.  The French flags are recorded in an English source:  a meticulous listing in the log of Captain Sir Francis Wheeler of the English ship Albemarle (The National Archives of Great Britain [NA], ADM 51/55).  Each squadron commander, in the centre division, flew a rectangular flag at the fore (including Tourville).  The second-in-command of each squadron (the functional vice-admiral regardless of titular rank) flew a rectangular flag at the mizzen, and the third-in-command (the functional contre-admiral or rear-admiral) flew a swallow-tailed ‘cornette’ at the mizzen.  The command flags in the Avant-garde (Van Squadron) were blue, those in the Corps de Bataille (Centre Squadron) were white, and those in the Arrière-garde (Rear Squadron) were bicolour white over blue.  In addition to the nine division commanders, the French placed a junior flag officer (chef d’escadre – abbreviated ‘CdE’ below) at the very head and tail of the line.  These flew special pendants at the mizzen peak (the tip of the diagonal mizzen yard), the only ships in the fleet with pendants (though Tourville’s ‘seconds’ stationed immediately before and abaft him were also chefs d’escadre).  In all ships, jacks and ensigns were white.  The flag arrangements were rather different from those specified by the current Ordonnance, which apparently had not anticipated fleets of such great size.

In the list below, the division commanders and their flagships are in bold type.  In the RATE column, the five fourth-rate light frigates not in the line are identified as ‘4F’.  Their names are indented showing their approximate stations on the unengaged side of the fleet.  Fireships are designated by ‘fs’ in the RATE column and their names are double-indented.  All the flag-officers including the junior chefs d’escadre each evidently had at least one fireship under his control.  The eight ships indicated as ‘Répétiteurs’ were designated signal repeaters.  There is some controversy about this, since the Chevalier de Forbin-Gardane claimed later in his Memoirs of the Count de Forbin (London, 1731), p. 277, to have been among the répétiteurs, but Sue’s list allots this honour to Forbin’s next-ahead, the Chevalier de la Rongère.

The rates for ships in the French navy of the 1690s did not correspond to English rates.  The three-decked French first-rates included all of what the English would have counted as first- and second-rates.  French second-rates roughly equated to large English third-rates, and French third-rates were about the same size and force as the small English third-rates and large fourth-rates.

Some details in the list below still remain wanting.  I was unable to find the forenames of most of the captains, and have accordingly omitted them all.  I was able to identify only three flag-captains, as shown below.  Finally, French proper names in the seventeenth century were often rendered in a variety of phonetic spellings.  To those who disapprove of the versions adopted here, I cheerfully apologize.

RATE       SHIP                       GUNS        MEN             COMMANDER

Avant-garde (Van Squadron)

2          Le Fier                          68-72         515             CdE De Relingues

fs                   L’Hameçon                6            30            Deslauriers

3          Le Fort                          52-60         365            De Lartelloire

4          Le Maure                       52-54         282            Chev. La Galissonnière

2          L’Éclantant                     64-68         441            De Septesmes

1          Le Conquérant             70-74         588           Lt-Gén. Marq. de Villette-Mursay / Capt. de La Roche-Allard

fs                   Le Fanfaron              10           30             La Serre

2          Le Courtisan                  62-66         400             De Pointis

4          L’Indien                        44-50         250             De Roussel

4F             Le Solide                  42-48         250             De Ferville

4          Le Trident                     46-52         282             De Riberet

3          Le Hardy (Répétiteur)     56-58         350             Comte des Gouttes

3          Le Saint-Louis                56-58         362             La Roque-Percin

3          L’Excellent                     56-60         351             Chev. de Montbron

2          Le Pompeux                   72-74         460             D’Aligre

fs              La Branche d’Olivier        6            30             Moreau

1          Le Dauphin-Royal       90-110          705       Lt-Gén. Château-Renault / Capt. Delcampe

fs                   L’Impudent               10           30             Origène Marchand

fs                   Le Déguisé                4            30             De Lalande

3          L’Ardent                        62-66          364             D’Infreville

3          Le Bon                          52-56         315?           Chev. de Digoine du Palais

3          Le Précieux                        54         330             De Périnet

3          L’Aquilon (Répétiteur)     52-54         350?           De Beaugeais

4F             L’Alcion                     40-44         150             Jean-Bart

3          Le Fendant                     52-58         340?           La Vigerie

3          Le Courageux                     60         365             De Sévigny

1          La Couronne                72-78         517         CdE Marquis de Langeron

fs                   Le Dur                      10           30             De Longchamps

3          Le Ferme                       54-60         358             De Vandricourt

3          Le Téméraire                 52-58         343             De Rivault-Huet

4F             L’Éole                       46-50         250             Du Tast

 

 

Corps de Bataille (Centre Squadron)

3          Le Brusque (Répétiteur)  50-56         314             De Ricours

3          L’Arrogant                      54-60         362             Chev. des Adrets

4          L’Arc-en-Ciel                   44-46         272             Chev. de Sainte-Maure

2          L’Henri                           62-66         390             D’Amblimont

1          Le Souverain                80-84         588          CdE De Nesmond / Capt. d’Aire

fs                   Le Périlleux               10           30             Monnier

3          Le Brillant                      58-66         480             De Beaujeu

4          Le Neptune                         46         240             De Forbin

3          Le Sans-Pareil (Répétiteur)58-60       385             Chev. de La Rongère

3          Le Fidèle                         46-56        242             Chev. de Forbin-Gardane

3          Le Diamant                     54-56         355             De Serquigney

2          Le Sérieux                      56-64         324             Chev. de Bellefontaine

2          Le Tonnant                     70-72         515             CdE Marquis de La Porte

fs                   L’Espion                    10           30             Drognon-Terras

1          Le Soleil-Royal           98-104          904        Vice-Adm. Comte de Tourville

fs                   L’Insensé                  10           30             Cadeneau

4F             Le Faucon                      44             —             De Montbault

1          Le Saint-Philippe                  80         525             CdE Chev. de Coëtlogon

fs                   La Jolie                     10           30             Naudy

3          Le Marquis                      58-60         343        Chev. de Château-Morand

3          Le Furieux                       58-60         365             Desnots

3          La Fortuné (Répétiteur)    58-60         368             Pallas

3          L’Apollon                         56-58         365             Bidault

3          Le Saint-Michel                54-58         348             De Villars

3          L’Entreprenant                 56-60         365             De Sébeville

1          Le Magnifique               76-80         590        Lt-Gén. Marquis d’Amfreville

fs                   La Bouffonne             10           30             Descourtis

fs                   Le Fâcheux                10           30             Verguin

2          Le Content                      56-60         390             Comte de Saint-Pierre

3          Le Vermandois                58-60         262             Du Challard

4          Le Cheval-Marin              40-46         252             Chev. d’Amfreville

3          Le Fougueux (Répétiteur)     58         368             De Saint-Marc

 

 

Arrière-garde (Rear Squadron)

4          Le Comte                       40-44         250         Marq. La Roche-Courbon-Blénac

3          Le Vigilant                      52-56         315             Chev. de Chalais

2          Le Parfait                       60-62         350             Machault

2          Le Triomphant             70-72         515             CdE Chev. de Flacourt

    fs                   L’Impertinent        6            30             Fremicourt

2          Le Bourbon                   58-62         350             D’Hervault

3          Le Duc                          48-52         305             Pallière

3          Le Vaillant                     48-54         350             Feuquières

3          Le Capable (Répétiteur)  50-54         250             La Boissière

3          Le Brave                       50-58         385             De Champigny

3          Le François                    44-46         262             Chev. d’Hailly

3          L’Agréable                     58-60         360             Le Motte

2          Le Florissant                  72-80         500             De Cogolin

fs                   La Diligente          6-10            30             Rolland

1          Le Grand                     80-86         660         Vice-Adm. Comte d’Estrées

fs                   Le Boutefeu         6            30             Jean-Étienne

2          Le Belliqueux                72-74         515             Des Francs

fs                   Le Royal-Jacques 6-10            30             Perron

4F             Le Léger                       44         200             Du Rouvroy

3          Le Prince                      56-58         365             Baron des Adrets

3          Le Prudent                    52-58         234             Des Herbiers

3          Le Modéré (Répétiteur)       50         315             Des Augiers

3          Le Fleuron                    54-58         339             De Chabert

2          L’Aimable                     66-70         450             Du Magnon

1          L’Intrépide                 80-84         600             Lt-Gén. Gabaret

fs                   La Maligne          6-10            30             De Reussy

2          Le Glorieux                  60-62         392             Belle-Isle Érard

2          L’Illustre                      66-70         472             Chev. de Rosmadec

2          Le Terrible                   72-74         515             CdE Pannetié

fs                   L’Extravagant         10           30             Longchamps-Montendre

 

 

 

 

 

 

Filed Under: Maritime history, Naval history, Uncategorized Tagged With: Battle of Beachy Head, Beveziers, Frank Fox

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