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> I do >>not know of specific occasions where their speed was a >>tactical or strategic advantage but it is a question >>worth pursuing. > >I don't recall the specifics, but I do remember >reading about a case in which a small French >squadron--around half a dozen SOL--got to sea and a >British squadron was sent after it. By the time news >of the departure got to England and an equivalent >force could be told off and ordered to pursue, the >French, of course, had a head start of a week or more. > The historian who related this incident remarked that >it was a rather strange decision to include a 98 as >the rear-admiral's flagship for what was intended to >be a "flying squadron." It would take some time to >find the particulars--the date of the incident, the >compositions of the two squadrons, the writer who made >the observation, and a citation of the source.

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