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Updated: May 8, 2025
He saw that the old battle formation in single line-ahead was insufficient if you wanted as he himself always did to gain an overwhelming victory. He also saw that, though an improvement on the old formation, Lord Howe's method of the single line-abreast was still a good deal short of tactical perfection.
Also, it may be mentioned that by simple alterations of course a line-abreast may be converted into a line-of-bearing and a line-of-bearing into a line-ahead, and that the reverse can be effected by the same operation. Again, adherence to a plan which presupposes the enemy's fleet to be in a particular formation after he is found to be in another is not to be expected of a consummate tactician.
Others were waiting for their guns to come from Italy. Ten galleys rowed out to protect them. The weather and surroundings were perfect for these galleys. But as they came end-on in line-abreast Drake crossed their T in line-ahead with the shattering broadsides of four Queen's ships which soon sent them flying.
On 'The First of June, notwithstanding that the advance to the attack was intended to be in line-abreast, several British ships were 'doubled on, and even 'trebled on, as will be seen in the experiences on that day of the Brunswick, Marlborough, RoyalSovereign, and QueenCharlotte herself.
Hughes says the enemy "steered down on the rear of our line in an irregular double line-abreast," in which formation they continued till the moment of collision, when "three of the enemy's ships in the first line bore right down upon the 'Exeter, while four more of their second line, headed by the 'Héros, in which M. de Suffren had his flag, hauled along the outside of the first line toward our centre.
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