Identifier: navalbattlesanci00ship (find matches)
Title: Naval battles, ancient and modern
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Shippen, Edward, 1826-1911
Subjects: Naval battles
Publisher: Philadelphia (etc.) J.C. McCurdy & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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single ships which closely followed it, in which Admiral Nelsons dispatches describing his victory were captured by one of the two French line of battleships which escaped from Aboukir Bay. It will be remembered that the Genereux and Guillaume Tell, with two frigates, made sail and escaped, on August 2nd. On the 5th the Leander, 50, Captain Thompson, was despatched, with Captain Berry, of Admiral Nelsons flagship, to convey to Earl St. Vincent the report of the great action. The Leander, making the best of her way to the westward, was, at daybreak on the i8th of August, within a few miles of the Goza di Candia. As the sun rose a large sail was discovered in the south, evidently a ship of the line, and standing directly for the Leander, which latter ship was becalmed, while the stranger was bringing up a fine breeze from the southward. The Leander being some eighty men short of her complement, and having on board several who were wounded in the late action, Captain Thompson very properly took every
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LEANDER AND GENEREUX. 321 means to avoid a contest with a ship so superior in size and force. But the inferiority in sailing of the Leander rendered an action inevitable; and it was only left him to steer such a course as would enable her to receive her powerful antagonist to the best advantage. The line of battle ship soon turned out to be French, and no other than the Genereux. She still had the breeze to herself, and came down within distant shot, when shehoisted Neapolitan colors. These she soon changed forTurkish, but had not at all deceived the English officersas to her nationality. About nine oclock she ranged upon the Leanders weather quarter, within half gunshot. The English ship at once hauled up until her broadside would bear, and then opened a vigorous fire, which was returned by the Genereux. The ships contrived to near each other, keeping up a constant and heavy fire, until half-past ten, when it was evident the Genereux intended to lay her opponent on board. The Leanders sails and r

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