. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. he last chapter. Yet peace still nominally prevailed, when, on December 19th,1664, Alhn, with eight ships of war under his orders, sighted theDutch Smjrna convoy coming out of the Straits. It consisted ofthirty merchantmen and three ships of war, the whole under Captain On this vojage he made several vahiable There he took the Dutch sliips Krokodil, Visclikorf, and New York was taken partly by way of reprisals, but jiartly also in pursuance ofold claims to possession by iio;ht of discovery. * France and Den
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. he last chapter. Yet peace still nominally prevailed, when, on December 19th,1664, Alhn, with eight ships of war under his orders, sighted theDutch Smjrna convoy coming out of the Straits. It consisted ofthirty merchantmen and three ships of war, the whole under Captain On this vojage he made several vahiable There he took the Dutch sliips Krokodil, Visclikorf, and New York was taken partly by way of reprisals, but jiartly also in pursuance ofold claims to possession by iio;ht of discovery. * France and Denmark subsequently joined Holland. 424 MINOR OPERATIONS, 1660-1714. [1664. Pieter van Brakel. Allin, knowing of the very strained relationsexisting Ijetween the two States, and confident that the actual out-break of war could not, in any event, be long delayed, vouchsafedno attention to the salute which Van Brakel paid in the prescribedform, and fell upon the unfortunate Dutch without giving them theslightest warning. Not only the men-of-war, but also the merchant-. ADMIEAL silt TUUMAS ALLIX, KT. (From VattdcrhanKs engraving after the pcrtrait hi/ Sir <j. EraUcr.) men made a very gallant defence. Jan Eoelofsze, master of theKoning Salomo, fought his ship until she sank, carrying down withher a number of EngHsh who had boarded her. Van Brakel,however, fell; the Dutch line was broken; and three of therichest merchantmen were taken. The rest of the convoy soughtrefuge in Cadiz, and remained there until Allin had quitted thestation. One of the first actions of the war was fought in the North Sea l(J<i5.] BllAVERY OF CAPTAIN CHARLES HAWAED. 425 between the English cruisers YannoutJt, 44, Diamond, 40, andMermaid, 22, and the Dutch cruisers Eendracht, 32, and Joiuje Leeuiv,22, in February, 1665. The vessels seem to have been scouting onbehalf of their respective fleets. The Dutch ships, after a bravedefence, were taken ; and Cornells Evertsen, the Youngest, ^ thena young man of t
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