Identifier: cu31924028018574 (find matches)
Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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h, was onlymoral, for, as the grey dawn broke on the morningof the 30th, it was seen that not a single ship of theSpaniards had caught fire. But the threat hadbeen sufficient. Cables had been cut, sail crowdedon; and the great Armada, many of its shipsdamaged by collisions received in their franticefforts to escape the dreaded fireships, was flying ina disorganised mass to the north-east. Sidonia, inthe San Martin, made an attempt to rally hisscattered fleet off Gravelines, and the finest of hisships boldly answered to his signal and manoeuvredto form on the flagship. Howard himself weaklyturned to capture a huge galleass disabled bycoUision; and, as Corbett puts it, for the sake ofcapturing a ship already out of action, he risked thelast chance of destroying the whole Armada. ButDrake, superbly seconded by the rest of the fleet,bore down relentlessly on the giants that wereattempting to make some kind of a fleet formation THE DISPERSAL OF THE ARMADA IN CALAIS ROADS BY FIRE SHIPS 1588
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THE TUDOR NAVY 67 on the San Martin, For nine hours the battleraged with fury; but, though the Spaniards dis-played a courage as bold and enduring as that of theEnglish bulldogs, that at last had them fairly bythe throat, they were, by nightfall, beaten. Out-gunned and worsted by superior seamanship, alltheir efforts were now centred on trying to claw offthe battered ships that survived the encounter fromthe deadly Netherland shoals on to which a north-west wind was driving them. Throughout thesummer night the English fleet watched and waited,but with daybreak came a gleam of hope for theremnant of the Invincible Armada. A shift ofwind to the southward enabled them to steer north-ward, and to the open sea, clear of the dreadedshoals. For two days Howard and Drake followed,until, when north of the Dogger bank, a furiousgale swept from the westward, and the English^running for shelter, knew that the elements wouldsoon complete the work of havoc. As a potentialdanger and menace to Englan

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