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>>>Can anyone help me with a list of the French and >>>English Fleet list from the Battles of Schooneveld >and >>>Texel of 1673? I know some ships and captains, but I >>>need guns and crew for each of them. >> >>The best source for English and French squadrons at >>the battle of Schooneveldt is H.T. Colenbrander, >>Bescheiden uit Vreemde Archieven van Omtrent de Groote >>Nederlandsche Zeeoorlogen, 1652-1676, B. 2, Hague, >>1919. Here is a line of battle dated 30 May 1673 with >>crews’ numbers (as per Establishments) and Captains’ >>names. >> >>As for the battle of Texel, no problem with crews of >>French ships but their exact line is unknown; no exact >>data for English squadron at all; R.C. Anderson >>(Journals and Narratives of he Third Dutch War (NRS, >>v. 86, London, 1946) managed to define English ships >>participated in this battle, but with only partial >>distribution between squadrons (Red and Blue). >> >>I have them on paper and can post them later as now I >>am busy. >> >>Ted > >I can not find a list of the Anglo-French fleet in >1673 in anything in my personal library. John >Campbell, <I>Naval History of Great Britain, Including >the History and Lives of the British Admirals<I> >(London: John Stockdale, 1813), II, 210n, says, “See >‘The Exact Relation,’ &c. In this piece we have not >only the most authentic, but, I believe, the only >authentic account of this engagement, now extant. >Prince Rupert’s letters were usually published, but >what he wrote on this occasion, was not judged >convenient for the people’s perusal. The Dutch >narrations were calculated to serve a turn, and that >penned by M. de Martel for the information of the >French king, was for many good reasons suppressed.” A >large amount of 17th and 18th century English printed >matter has been digitized in the last few years; >that’s my source for Campbell. Digitized 18th-century >British naval histories that I have but that do not >include ship lists either include John Entick, ><I>Naval History: Or, Complete View of the British >Marine</I> (1757); George Berkley, <I>The Naval >History of Britain</I> (1756); and Frederic Hervey, ><I>The Naval History of Great Britain</I> (1780). The >Allied order of battle with ship names and gun counts, >officer names, and perhaps nominal crew numbers, might >be found in contemporary publications like the “Exact >Relation” or others. They might be available in the >Goldsmith-Kress’s collection, formerly on microfilm >(and probably still available in that form at the >libraries that had acquired it) and recently >digitized. The microfilm version should be available >at the libraries of major research universities and at >national libraries like the British Library and the >Library of Congress. The digitized version would >probably have to be accessed at such a library that >pays for access fees. > >On the other hand, if Anderson could not figure out >the English organization in the early 20th century, it >probably was not published in 1673. > >Since I am now considered to be a "spammer" by this >site, this will be my last attempt to answer any >questions here.

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