. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. er in which De Euijter met this intention was masterly inthe extreme. After the Allies had joined forces. King Charles and the Dukeof York visited the combined fleets on May 19th. The Enghshcontingent, consisting apparently of 54 ships of the line, about8 frigates, and 24 fireships, was under Prince Rupert, as com-mander-in-chief, in the Royal Charles, and Sir Edward Spragge,Admiral of the Blue. The other flag-officers were Vice-AdmiralsSir John Harman (Bed), and Sir John Kempthorne (Blue) ; andRear-Admirals Sir John Chichele
. The royal navy : a history from the earliest times to the present. er in which De Euijter met this intention was masterly inthe extreme. After the Allies had joined forces. King Charles and the Dukeof York visited the combined fleets on May 19th. The Enghshcontingent, consisting apparently of 54 ships of the line, about8 frigates, and 24 fireships, was under Prince Rupert, as com-mander-in-chief, in the Royal Charles, and Sir Edward Spragge,Admiral of the Blue. The other flag-officers were Vice-AdmiralsSir John Harman (Bed), and Sir John Kempthorne (Blue) ; andRear-Admirals Sir John Chicheley (Red), and Thomas Butler, ^ An Exact Relation, etc. (1673, 4to.), states that at that time the French at Brestdeclined to come out until the English were in the Channel; and that Prince Rupert,from the Thames, in defiance of the enemy, who was riding at the Gunfleet, passedthrough the passage called the Narrow^—and this, too, against the wind; which sosurpiised the Dutch, that, seeing the end of their lying there lost, they sailed backagain to their own I(i73.] DE RUJJTER LEAVES POUT. oil Earl of Ossory (Blue). The French contingent was composed oi27 ships of the line, 2 frigates, and 18 fireships, and was underAdmiral Jean, Comte dEstrees, in the Beine, 104; Vice-Admiraldes Ardens, in the Terrible, 70, and Eear-Admiral the Marquisde Grancey, in the OrgueiUetix, 70. The Allies consequentlydisposed of 81 ships of the hne, 10 frigates, and 42 fireships,besides dispatch vessels and other small craft. The Dutch had but 52 ships of the line, 12 frigates, and25 fireships, in addition to small craft. These were under DeRuijter, as commander-in-chief, Cornelis Tromp, who had beenreinstated in the service and given the post vacated by the deathof Van Ghent, as commander of the van, and Adriaen Banckers, ascommander of the rear. About May 20th the Allies sailed. They had on board a numberof troops; and (3000 additional soldiers lay at Yarmouth, ready tobe embarked and transpo
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