The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . suppose that the commander of theweather fleet, though his ships have been disabled in theirrigging during their course a a a,io leeward. Fig. 50, hasmade them bring to at a great ^^S- ^^ distance, but sufficiently near to injure F; this latter fleet, which has been endeavouring to avoid an action, will now bear away with little injury to a new station, / \ Zz^-^y-^^<y / as G, an
The army and navy of America : containing a full view of the heroic adventures, battles, naval engagements, remarkable incidents ..from the period of the French and Indian wars to the close of the Mexican war ... . suppose that the commander of theweather fleet, though his ships have been disabled in theirrigging during their course a a a,io leeward. Fig. 50, hasmade them bring to at a great ^^S- ^^ distance, but sufficiently near to injure F; this latter fleet, which has been endeavouring to avoid an action, will now bear away with little injury to a new station, / \ Zz^-^y-^^<y / as G, and there remain out of the / ^^r * g-— : ^^; / reach of Bs shot; and this fleet ^aa-ca -^ «s-®9 ?^-?^ must repair its rigging before it can make another , suppose that the fleet B, instead of standing head on, were to run down in an angular course, as in Fig. 51. It is plain that if any ship in this angular line should be ^^S ^^* crippled, her defect in sail-ing will occasion a confusion of several of the other ships in that line. It may bo said, that the stoppage of one ship ahead will not necessarily produce a stoppage of every ship astern of her, because they may run to leeward of the_. 130 THE ARMY AND NAVY. disabled ship; but we must observe that by this time theships ahead in the van of A may be engaged, and consequently,not having much headway, are nearly stationary, so that eachship astern, in attempting to bear down, as at D, D, may beconfined to a certain course, and must run the risk of beingraked in coming down before the wind, and consequently, ofbeing disabled before coming up with the enemy. Thirdly, the van of the fleet B having attained their sta-tion at A, abreast of the van of F, Fig. 52, and having begun the action, the vanFig. 52. ships of F, with a view to retreat, may%.^ ^ ^ -, - throw in a broad- side on the van ofand then bear ^. % ^4 2L o^ ?^^r~,. away in succession, as at H, followed by the rest of the fleet F, which, after ex- ^. ^- ch
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