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The Naval History of Great Britain, From 1793, to 1820, With an Account of the Origin and Increase of the British Navy
The Naval History of Great Britain From 1793 to 1820 With an Account of the Origin and Increase of the British Navy Author:William James General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1823 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: EAST INDIAMEN WITH MARENGO AND CONSORTS. On the 31st of January fifteen regular Indiamen," a Botany-bay ship, eleven country-ships, and a fast-sailing armed brig, the Ganges, in the service of the East- India Company, sailed from Canton for Europe, under the orders of captain Nathaniel Dance, of the Earl Camden, the senior officer. On the 14th of February, at eight o'clock in the morning, Pulo Auro in sight and bearing west-south-west, the Royal George made the signal for seeing four strange sail in the south-west. Commodore Dance immediately signalled the Alfred, Royal George, Bombay-Castle, and Hope, to go down and examine the strangers: and lieutenant Robert Fowler, R. N., late of the Porpoise store-ship, and at this time a passenger on board the Earl Camden, volunteered to go in the Ganges brig, on the same service. The signals of the look-out ships soon apprized the commodore that the strange vessels were a french squadron, consisting of a line - of- battle ship, three frigates, and a brig. They were, in fact, the Marengo and her three consorts, whom, on the 10th of the preceding December, we left just anchored in the road of Batavia. Thence they sailed on the. 28th, accompanied by a batavian armed brig, and stored with six months' provisions, on purpose to look after the China fleet, of whosestrength and time of departure M.. Linois had, as he declares, been duly informed." a Warley, Alfred, Royal George, Coutts, Wexford, Ganges, Exeter, Earl of Abergavenny, Henry Addington, Bombay- Cagtle, Cumberland Hope, Dorchester, Warren-Hustings, and. Ocean. At one the british commodore recalled the look...« less