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
B - State of Her Majesty's Ships in Commission
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
(1) In May 1702
(2) In August 1704
(3) In August 1707
(4) In February 1708.
These lists are compiled from the Admiralty monthly lists of ships in sea pay (List Books: Ad. 8/7 to 8/10).
Numbers of men are shown to the nearest complete hundred.
Ships at home include ships in commission, but refitting, besides ships ready for immediate service.
Ships abroad and going abroad are those stationed in the West Indies and North America, and sometimes in the East Indies, and “convoys to remote parts”—across the Atlantic, to the Cape, to Turkey, to the White Sea—and ships fitting out and under orders for those services. Adm. Benbow's squadron in 1702 was additional to the stationed ships in the West Indies.
The number and disposition of the ships in pay varied from time to time, naturally, but not enough to justify printing more detailed lists than the four I have chosen, namely, in the first month of the war, and at the time of the battle of Malaga, the expedition against Toulon, and “the Alarm from Dunkirk”.
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- War at Sea Under Queen Anne 1702–1708 , pp. 272 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1938