. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. lower ports on theleeward side resulted in the flooding of the batteries and in dangerto the ships. Having approached, Albemarle stood along the irregular Dutchline on the starboard tack, leaving the van and centre (the Dutch^ Leaving, however, the flag-officers of the White SqiuKhon behiud with Albemarle. 270 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1666. proper right and centre) out of gunshot, and passing on until he wasabreast of the rear (the Dutch proper left). He advanced in column—a formation most difficult for a large number of
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. lower ports on theleeward side resulted in the flooding of the batteries and in dangerto the ships. Having approached, Albemarle stood along the irregular Dutchline on the starboard tack, leaving the van and centre (the Dutch^ Leaving, however, the flag-officers of the White SqiuKhon behiud with Albemarle. 270 MAJOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1666. proper right and centre) out of gunshot, and passing on until he wasabreast of the rear (the Dutch proper left). He advanced in column—a formation most difficult for a large number of vessels to preservein a satisfactory manner—and the consequence was that, when hecame abreast of Tromp, he had but about five-and-thirty ships closeup with him and well in hand, the remaining twenty straggHng andtailing out so as to afford little support either to him or to oneanother. Albemarle, nevertheless, put his helm up and ran downupon Tromp, whose ships, cutting their cables, made sail on thesame tack, and stood across towards the French coast, hotly. THE FOUR days FIGHT, 1666. A. The attack on June 1st (the first day). B. The eonchision of that days action. engaged. The Dutch centre and van also weighed or cut theircables, and followed on the same course, but, being far to leeward,did not get into action until about noon. AVhen the action had continued in this fashion for nearly threehours, Albemarle, probably because he found himself too close tothe shore, seems to have ordered his ships to put about togetherso as to return on a north-west course. This evolution turned whathad been the English rear into the van ; and the van, thus newlyconstituted, presently got into furious action with De Kuijter andthe comparatively fresh Dutch centre. No doubt the EngHsh shipshad already suffered severely. This new encounter threw the head 1666.] THE FOUR DAYS FIGHT. 271 of the colmun into some confusion, of which De Ruijter knew howto take advantage; and presently three or fo
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