. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . brica, a construction. Originally, a frigate was a vesselof the Mediterranean, propelled by sails and oars. The name was transferredby the French in 1650 to larger vessels, and, by 1750, it had been appropriatedfor vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from1750 to 1850, had one full battery-deck, and, often, a spar-deck with a lighterbattery. The spar-deck was the upper deck, continued in a straight line fromthe quarter-deck to the forecastle, on which spare spars were placed. ^ A corvette was a wooden ship of war, flush-dec
. The British in Capri, 1806-1808 . brica, a construction. Originally, a frigate was a vesselof the Mediterranean, propelled by sails and oars. The name was transferredby the French in 1650 to larger vessels, and, by 1750, it had been appropriatedfor vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from1750 to 1850, had one full battery-deck, and, often, a spar-deck with a lighterbattery. The spar-deck was the upper deck, continued in a straight line fromthe quarter-deck to the forecastle, on which spare spars were placed. ^ A corvette was a wooden ship of war, flush-decked, frigate-rigged, andhaving only one tier of guns. The term was applied originally to vessels ofburden, with reference to the corbita, or basket, carried at the mast-heads ofEgyptian grain-ships. A war-ressel, ranking next below a frigate, and havingusually only one tier of guns. Compare a sloop of war in the Navy. - The Ponza Islands lie to the north-west of Naples, outside the centre ofthe Bay of Gaeta. * See Chapter ATTACK ON THE ISLAND OF CAPRI 151 With the Regiment of Malta arrived Lieutenant-Colonel Brice, Chief Engineer to the Army in Lowe gladly availed himself ofthis occasion to show the works that had been erectedfor the defence of the island, and to point out such as heconceived still necessary. A tower at Tragara Hill,and a species of bastion at the left angle of the town,where the small tower stood, near which the breachwas afterwards made, met Colonel Brices consent, and,had time admitted their construction, it would haverendered the defences of the island as complete aspossible, consistent with any plan of temporary forti-fication or repair of the works that had been beforeconstructed. At Anacapri, Lieutenant-Colonel Lowepointed out to Lieutenant-Colonel Brice the advantagesof having some guns placed in flanking-positions, alongthe most salient points of the rocks between the Towersof Limbo and Damicute, which he represente
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