Ships
- British
- Commodore's squadron
- HMS Pomone - thirty-eight; Captain Pomfret; replaced by Captain Vaux
- HMS Surprise
- HMS Dover - thirty-two; Captain Ward
- HMS Rainbow - Post-ship; Captain Brawley
- HMS Ganymede - Post-ship; Captain Cartwright
- HMS Briseis - a brig; Captain Harris
- HMS Hamadryad
- Other
- HMS Royal Sovereign - Lord Keith's Flagship of Mediterranean Fleet
- HMS Implacable - Lord Barmouth's Flagship of Mediterranean Fleet
- Commodore's squadron
- French:
- His Most Christian Majesty's frigate Caroline
- Ardent - thirty-two gun Buonapartist frigate; Captain Charles de La Tour
- Cerbere - frigate; Captain Delalande
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Famous quotes containing the word ships:
“I saw three ships come sailing by,
Come sailing by, come sailing by,
I saw three ships come sailing by,
On Christmas Day in the morning.”
—Unknown. As I Sat on a Sunny Bank. . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938)
“Oh, let me midlife mourn by the shrined
And druid herons’ vows
The voyage to ruin I must run,
Dawn ships clouted aground,
Yet, though I cry with tumbledown tongue,
Count my blessings aloud....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The ships we sank with women and children aboard. The lifeboats we shelled. Mmm ... we were good at that.”
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