. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. in the neighbourhood of the Isle of AYight, awaiting, andfrom day to day receiving, reinforcements of English and Dutchships. Indeed, his force did not attain its full strength until veryshortly before the battle which was fought at the end of the that age it was still customary for the belligerent powers towithdraw their grand fleets from sea at the beginning of winter, andto send them out again at the beginning of summer. Navies, infact, like armies, habitually went into winter quarters. Yet, althoughby the middle
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. in the neighbourhood of the Isle of AYight, awaiting, andfrom day to day receiving, reinforcements of English and Dutchships. Indeed, his force did not attain its full strength until veryshortly before the battle which was fought at the end of the that age it was still customary for the belligerent powers towithdraw their grand fleets from sea at the beginning of winter, andto send them out again at the beginning of summer. Navies, infact, like armies, habitually went into winter quarters. Yet, althoughby the middle of June the ordinary season for the resumption ofhostihties was aheady several weeks old, and although Torrington ^ Cornells Evertsen, known first as the Youngest, and later as the Younger,son of C. Evertsen, the Old. Distinguished himself in the SecondWar with England, especially in the aflair of the Smyrna fleet, at Solebay, and in theWest Indies. Accompanied William III. to England. Led the van at Beachy of Zeeland, 1690.] THE BATTLE OF BEACHY HEAD. 337 knew very well that a large armament was getting ready to fallupon him, the port of Brest was altogether unwatched, and not asingle EngHsh cruiser was on the look-out to the w^estward ofSt. Helens. On June 20th, the French were off the Lizard ; onthe 23rd, they were off St. Albans Head. Not, apparently, untilthen did Torrington become fully aware that they were anywherenear him. On that day he weighed and stood off shore to the ,anchoring again late in the afternoon, with Culver Cliff by S., about six or seven miles. At five on the followingmorning he weighed again, with a fresh gale from the by N.,and stood away by E. In the evening he again anchored, withCulver Chff bearing nearly At 5 on the 25th, heonce more weighed, and exercised the fleet at tactics until 9 ,when, the wind having veered to and a thick fog having comeon, he an
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