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HISTORY OF MARINE ARCHITECTURE.
least in the year when it is said to have been first equipped. Some time after-wards, that is to say, in 1620, all authors agree, that an armament actually didproceed against Algiers. It agrees tolerabl) well, in respect to force, with theofficial account of that fitted out two years before, but differing, in some respects,with regard to the names of the ships, prevents any positive conclusion beingdrawn, that the squadrons were actually one and the same, though there appearslittle room to doubt that they were. The variations which appear in the date,the force, the number and names of the ships, may probably have been occa-sioned by those inaccuracies to which all historical accounts are, and it is to befeared ever will be, liable. The fleet said to have been equipped in 1620 con*sisted of—
Tons.
Men.
Brass guns.
Commanders.
The Lion, admiral
600
250
40
Sir Robert Mansel.
Vanguard, vice admiral
660
250
40
Sir Richard Hawkins.
Rainbow, rear admiral
660
250
40
Sir Thomas Button.
Constant Reformation
660
250
40
Capt. Arthur Mayn waring.
Antelope
400
I 60
34
Sir Henry Palmer.
Convertine
5 °°
220
3 6
Captain Thomas Love.
Ships hired from
the Merchants .
Tons.
Men.
Iron guns..
Commanders. -
Golden Phoenix
300
120
24
Captain Samuel Argali..
Samuel
3 °°
120
22
Capt. Christopher Harris.
Marigold
260
IOO
21
Sir John Fearn.
Zouch Phoenix
280
120
26
Capt. John Pennington..
Barbary
200
80
l8
Capt. Thomas Porter.
Centurion
200
IOO
22
Sir Francis Tanfield.
Primrose
l8o
80
l8
Sir John Hamden.
Hercules
300
I 20
24
Captain Eusebius Cave.
Neptune
280
120
21
Captain Robert Haughton.
Merchant Bonaventure
260
I IO
2 3
Captain John Chidley.
Restore
I30
5 °
12
Captain George Raymond.
Marmaduke
100
5 °
12
Captain Thomas Herbert.
This armament, which notwithstanding the acknowleged abilities of its com-mander, effected nothing towards the purpose for which it was equipped, might besaid to have nearly closed the maritime transactions of this inglorious reign ;