code which was used by Lord Howe in his campaign of 1794.

In editing this code for the Society in his _Logs of the Great Sea Fights_, Admiral Sturges Jackson hazarded the conjecture that it had not then been printed, but was supplied to each ship in the fleet in MS.

The admiralty volume goes far to support his conjecture, and it is quite possible that we have here the final draft from which the MS.

copies were made.
As to the actual date at which the code was completed there is not much difficulty.

The Queen Charlotte was Howe's flagship in the Channel fleet from 1792-4, but it was also his flagship in 1790 at the time of the 'Spanish Armament,' when he put to sea in immediate expectation of war with Spain.