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Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816

PART VI
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[_Same as 20 of 1673_.] 20.

The fireships in their several divisions are to endeavour to keep the wind, and they with the small frigates to be as near the great ships as they can, attending the signal and acting accordingly.
21.

[_Same as 22 of 1673_.][3] FOOTNOTES: [1] Article 4 of 1673 is omitted, being included in Article 3 above.
[2] To sail with a quartering wind.

Morogues urged this precaution a century later (_Tactique Navale_, p.

209).
[3] The MS.


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