| John Wilson - 1856 - 432 pages
...lying within hail, made my signals, a service which Captain Blackwood performed with great attention. After the action I shifted my flag to her, that I might more easily communicate my orders, and towed the Eoyal Sovereign out to eastward." So satisfied was he with the exertions of every one... | |
| John Wilson - 1856 - 412 pages
...lying within hail, made my signals, a service which Captain Blackwood performed with great attention. After the action I shifted my flag to her, that I might more easily communicate my orders, and towed the Eoyal Sovereign out to eastward." So satisfied was he with the exertions of every one... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 826 pages
...ship lying within hail, made my signals,—a service Captain Blackwood performed with great attention. After the action, I shifted my flag to her, that I...Sovereign out to seaward. The whole fleet were now in a very perilous situation,— many dismasted,—all shattered, in thirteen fathom water off the shoals... | |
| William Freke Williams - 1864 - 786 pages
...lying within hail, made my signals—a service Captain Blackwood performed with very great attention. After the action I shifted my flag to her, that I might the more easily communicate my orders to aud collect the ships, and towed the Royal Sovereign out to... | |
| Arthur Corbett-Smith - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 306 pages
...and sent an officer to me immediately with his last farewell, and soon afterwards expired. . . . " The whole fleet were now in a perilous situation, many dismasted, all shattered, in thirteen fathoms of water, off the shoals of Trafalgar ; and, when I made the signal to prepare to anchor, few... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...lying within hail, made my signals, a service captain Blackwood performed with great attention.— After the action, I shifted my flag to her, that I might more easily commumcatftmy orders to, and collect the ships, and towed the Royal Sovereign out to leeward. The whole... | |
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