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One 64 and some frigates were held as a reserve, inside the main line, to act as occasion might require. The total available force was, six 64's, three 50's, and six frigates. D'Estaing's fleet, in detail, consisted of one 90-gun ship, one 80, six 74's and one 50.
Down to the end of the War of the Austrian Succession a period which is usually deemed to be one of conspicuous depression in the naval art the classification of our larger sailing vessels was purely arbitrary. In the first rate were 100-gun ships; in the second, 90-gun ships all three-deckers.
But on the evening of the first day there came yet other tidings of a reactive character, Saying that a confounded abolitionist man-of-war was still there giving block-aid to Uncle Sam. And HOLLINS, who was in town, being asked what this might mean, Said, 'Fudge! 'Go to, it is naught. Now I come to think of it, there was one infernal little sneaking 90-gun Yankee frigate,
Boscawen had somewhat over, Amherst a little under, 12,000 men. Boscawen's fleet comprised 39 sail, from a 90-gun ship of the line down to a 12-gun sloop. The British grand total therefore exceeded Drucour's by over three to one, counting mere numbers alone.
Of second-rates there were four 98-gun ships in commission, and eleven under repair; of 90-gun ships there was one under repair. Of two-deckers third-rate there was one 80-gun ship in commission and one under repair. Of seventy-fours there were 19 in commission and 61 under repair. Of sixty-fours there were only two in commission and 30 under repair, making a total of 113 line-of-battle ships.
I may be thought wrong, as an officer, to disobey the orders of the Admiralty, by not insisting on Sir Robert Calder's quitting the Prince of Wales for the Dreadnought, and for parting with a 90-gun ship, before the force arrives which their Lordships have judged necessary; but I trust that I shall be considered to have done right as a man, and to a brother officer in affliction my heart could not stand it, and so the thing must rest.
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