HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.

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CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH.

Account of the Squadrons fitted out against the Algerines in 1618 and 1620

Additions made to the Royal Navy by King James the First — Table of the newRates of Wages in 1626— Force of the Armament sent against Cadiz — Equip-ment of the Fleet intended to act against the Dutch and French—Description ofthe Royal Sovereign from Heywood—the Method used in converting the Tim-ber consumed in building that Ship—the Progress of any farther Augmentation

of the Navy stopped by the Civil War—List of the Ships added and rebuilt pre-

vious to the Commencement of the Civ l War—Remarks on the improved Methodin constructing Ships—Account of the Royal Navy during the Civil War—theImprovements introduced into the British Marine during the Reigns of Charles

and James the First—the Description given by Fuller of the British Navy ,and the Royal Dock Yards.

HE necessities of the state soon evinced the wisdom and propriety of the

A foregoing regulations: the Algerines having captured a considerablenumber of British vessels, it became necessary for government to interfere intheir behalf, and endeavour to procure, either by negociation, by threats, or byransom, their release. A squadron was accordingly fitted out, and put underthe orders of Sir Robert Mansell. A minute of its force is annexed to anhistorical report made, soon after the restoration, to the Duke of York, after-wards King James the Second, of the state of the navy from the commence -ment of the seventeenth century.

In the Voyage against y e Pirates of Argiers, anno 1618, were employ’d of theKings Shipps Six, manned with 1300 Mariners and Gunners prest:

Ark Rovall,Red Lyon,Vanguard,

Assurance,

Destiny,

Speedwell.

Merch* shipps 14, mann’d with 1200 prest men.

A detail of the different occurrences which took place during this expeditionwould be totally irrelative to the present purpose, were it even possible *0 reportthem with precision ; but the fact is, that this expedition appears, from the

total silence of historians on the subject of it, never to have proceeded to sea, at

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least