61, 62.] [Footnote 39: Testimony of Captains Hood, Robinson, and Macbride, and of Rear-Admiral Campbell, captain of the fleet to Keppel.] [Footnote 40: See note on preceding page.] [Footnote 41: A vessel is said to be on the port tack when she has the wind blowing on her port, or left side; on the starboard tack, when the wind is on the right side.

Thus with an east wind, if she head north, she is on the starboard tack; if south, on the port.] [Footnote 42: See also note; _post_, p.

200.] [Footnote 43: Twenty-two degrees.] [Footnote 44: Column and line ahead are equivalent terms, each ship steering in the wake of its next ahead.] [Footnote 45: Forty-five degrees.] [Footnote 46: Chevalier says, p.

89, "The English passed out of range" of these ships.

As these ships had the wind, they had the choice of range, barring signals from their own admiral.