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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART IX
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There is no Art.XXXVII.in Howe's set.
[10] In the United Service Institution.
[11] _Logs of the Great Sea Fights_, i.210.The log probably only gives an abbreviation of the signification.

Unless Jervis had changed it, its exact wording was 'The admiral means to pass between the ships of their line for engaging them to leeward,' &c.

See _supra_, p.

255.
[12] Fernandez Duro, _Armada Espanola_, viii.

111.
_LORD HOWE'S EXPLANATORY INSTRUCTIONS_.
[+Signal Book, 1799+.[1]] _Instructions for the conduct of the fleet preparatory to their engaging, and when engaged, with an enemy_.
I.When the signal is made for the fleet to form the line of battle, each flag officer and captain is to get into his station as expeditiously as possible, and to keep in close order, if not otherwise directed, and under a proportion of sail suited to that carried by the admiral, or by the senior flag officer remaining in the line when the admiral has signified his intention to quit it.
II.


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