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Title: The Royal Navy
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Swinburne, Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, Norman, 1878-1934 illus Jellicoe, John Rushworth Jellicoe, Earl, 1859-1935, illus
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Navy Great Britain. Royal Navy
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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into Corunna for overhaul andrefit, and it was 12th July before the Armada wasagain under way. Meanwhile Howards main fleethad joined up with that of Drake on 23rd May,bringing the united squadrons up to some hundredsail. Drake was now the vice-admiral to LordHoward, with John Hawkins third in command;but none the less did the fleet and the countryknow that it was Drake who was the guiding spiritof the whole, and that, though his position wassubordinate, yet henceforth it would be in hishands that the conduct of affairs would lie to alarge extent. And so on that memorable night,when the beacon lights flashed from the Eddystonto Skiddaw, and from Milford Haven to Lynn,there was, both afloat and ashore, calm andassured confidence in the outcome of the greatstruggle. As flagships, Howard had the Ark Royal,Drake the Revenge, Hawkins the J^ictory, July19th was the date of the historic scene on the Hoe, THE SPANISH ARMADA IN THE BAY OF BISCAY 1588 Wt^.* - V.-rT.VV» -rf-/., -■T lOKBr.-^-
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THE TUDOR NAVY 61 when the fateful tidings brought by Fleming—curiously enough himself the master of a GoldenHind—told the country that the hour of theArmadas approach had at length come. Thatnight, in the teeth of the wind that for weeks hadmade it impossible to strike a blow home at theArmada in their rendezvous at Corunna, the fleetwas warped out of Plymouth Sound, Rame Headweathered; and the 20th found Howard creepingdown close to the coast in typical dirty Channelweather, his object being to get to westward andto windward of the enemy. In the afternoon theArmada was sighted, but in decreased force. Alarge galleon had foundered, the galleys had beencompelled to give up the expedition altogether,and sickness and desertion had reduced the numberof seamen by a thousand and the troops by doublethat number. During that night Howard and hisofficers and men strained all the resources ofseamanship to get to windward of the foe, and withsuccess; for by daybreak on the 21st, a Sunday,th

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