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> >The list from Schomberg "of the French and Spanish >Squadrons, . . . cruising off Cape Francois,with the >Loss they sustained, in a violent Storm, on the 25th >and 26th February, 1781." makes me remember the list >of the British losses at Trafalgar made by the Spanish >after the disaster, when the "Victory", "Britannia", >"Prince of Wales", "Neptune", "Prince", "Spencer", >"Spartiate", "Minotaur" and "Sovereign" (don't fight >but wrecked at the coast of Conil) sank or wrecked; >the "Defence" burnt; the "Dreadnought", "Temeraire", >"Canopus", "Revenge", "Achilles", "Ligero" (sic) and >"Queen" were deleted as unserviceable; the "Colossus" >totally useless (the list also said she foundered, >with different loss of lives). >The SOLs repairable were only "Donegal", "Tiger", >"Orion", "Tonnant", "Leviathan","Swiftsure". >The "Conquistador" (sic), "Bellerophon", "Polyphemus", >"Eagle" (don't fight), "Atrevido" (sic) and "Mars" >were in more or less good shape >The "Carnate" (sic) "no entró en combate porque se >sotaventó" and the "Aboukir" "no entró en combate" >"porque se quedó en Gibraltar"; the "Relámpago" (sic) >and the "Duke of York" are others "SOLs" that don't >fought at Trafalgar but put crew prizes. >Some of them weren´t at Trafalgar at all ... >I copied a very small portion of this "serious" >document. >All the names were made more or less Spanish and I had >to translate back them. >Bye Gerardo

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