Fleet
The Royal Navy fleet included:
Vanguard Division commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Louis
- HMS Canopus 80-gun third-rate (Flag-Captain F.W. Austin)
- HMS Endymion 40-gun 24-pounder fifth-rate frigate (Captain Hon. T.B. Capel)
- HMS Ajax 74-gun third-rate (Captain Hon. H. Blackwood)
Main Division commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth
- HMS Royal George 100-gun first-rate (Flag-Captain Richard Dalling Dunn)
- HMS Windsor Castle 98-gun second-rate (Captain C. Boyles)
- HMS Repulse 74-gun third-rate (Captain Hon. A.K. Legge)
- HMS Active 38-gun fifth-rate (Captain Moubray)
Rear Division commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Sydney Smith
- HMS Standard 64-gun third-rate (Captain Harvey)
- HMS Thunderer 74-gun third-rate (Captain Talbot)
- HMS Pompée 74-gun third-rate (Flag Captain Richard Dacres)
- HMS Lucifer bomb vessel (Captain Elliot)
- HMS Meteor bomb vessel (Commander James Collins)
- HMS Madras (store ship) 54-gun (Captain Charles Marsh Schomberg)
- HMS Delight 16-gun brig-sloop (sloop of war)
- HMS Juno 32-gun fifth-rate (Captain Charles Richardson)
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Famous quotes containing the word fleet:
“A city on th’ inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to change by tomorrow, and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy-gifts fading away.”
—Thomas Moore (1779–1852)