Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
E - Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES, CHARTS AND PLANS
- PREFACE
- METHOD OF DATING
- Chapter I Means and Ways: The Instrument
- Chapter II Ways and Means: The Use of the Instrument
- Chapter III Mediterranean Outline: Cadiz to Port Mahon
- Chapter IV The French Squadronal Attack on the Trade in the Channel Soundings, 1704
- Chapter V Barcelona, 1705
- CHAPTER VI Toulon, 1707
- CHAPTER VII Cruisers and Convoys in 1707
- CHAPTER VIII “The Alarm from Dunkirk”, 1708
- A Particulars of Typical Ships of Queen Anne's Navy
- B State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
- C Confederate Ships of the Line at Home and in the Mediterranean 1702 to 1710
- D State of the French Navy
- E Admiral Fairborne's Proposal for the Main Fleet in 1703
- F The Cruisers and Convoys Act, 1708
- Notes
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
My Lord—Presuming upon the liberty your Lordship was pleased to give me by your last commands when I left the town, this comes humbly to lay before your Lordship some proposals for the directing her Majesty's forces at sea at this juncture, whereby the trade now designed abroad may be the less exposed, a countenance given to Portugal, and our own coasts in no danger to be insulted.
By all our advices there is reason to apprehend the chief strength of France for this year's service at sea will be made up at Cadiz. There is already advice of thirty-two men-of-war there, most of them capital ships. The five ships that so unluckily met the five Dutch men of war, convoy to the St Ubes [Setubal] fleet, are also gone that way, so may we reckon are those four that sailed t'other day from Brest; leaving as I have been informed six more behind them, all capital ships, in Brest Water ready to sail; what is gone or to go from the other ports of France being not altogether certain, but that it may be reasonably conjectured the enemy intends Cadiz for the rendezvous of all their force. Therefore, this squadron of ours and the Dutch intended now abroad being not above forty sail (and those not of the biggest ships), I presume this squadron will not be thought strong enough to take the chance of meeting the present strength of France by sea joined together, they having their galleys besides, which will be of great service to the enemy upon the latter part of the battle, for then is their play to gall our lame ships and put them into a very great hazard of falling into their hands.
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- War at Sea Under Queen Anne 1702–1708 , pp. 281 - 283Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1938