UNDER PETER THE GREAT

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the Baltic, assembled in Copenhagen Roads; andnow was the expected time to make the descent inSweden ; but it’s foreign to this design to enter intoa detail of the jealousies and misunderstandings thatprevented the execution.

A List of the Tsar’s Fleet then Present.

Flag Officers

Ships

Guns

Commanders

The Tsar

Ingermanland

64

Gosler

Captain-Commodore

Scheltinga .

Marlborough

70

Thosst

Captain-Commodore

Sievers

Katharina

60

Laurence

—

Poltava

54

Van Gent

—

Portsmouth

60

Eckoff

—

Devonshire

60

Nahum Sinavin

—

St. Michael

5 2

Rue

—

St. Gabriel

Z 2

Brant

—

Raphael

52

Huyck

—

Uriel

52

Ivan Sinavin

—

Salafiel

52

Bredale

—

Varakiel

52

Bents

—

Egudel

52

Vandergun

—

Fortune

48

Wessel

—

Pearl

52

Bering

—

Arundel

46

Baker

—

Lansdowne

40

Noble

—

Samson

32

Deane

— !

Elias

28

Nelson

—

Princess (snow)

16

Muconoff

— !

Natalia „

14

Schelling

—

Lesela „

14

Basheloff

—

Diana ,,

14

Harboe

The Tsar in the summer was heard to say hedesigned his frigates should winter at Kiel in Hol-stein and his ships of [the] line at Copenhagen ; butthe projected descent vanishing, he ordered hisgalleys and transports the beginning of Octoberaway for Mecklenburg, and sent the Arundel, Cap-

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