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http://www.sgiharborhouse.com/map.htm I guess its Torbay, although I have seen it used both ways, we should be consistent, so lets go with Torbay please Triumph, whether she, and her other ships, were in fact in need of rescue is a moot point. But Medina Sidonia saw what Howard was about to do, and led his vanguard of 16 ships to stop the English ships from their rescue mission. Before contact could be made, the Spanish Admiral saw that Recalde in his repaired San Juan had been cut off, and was surrounded by some twelve ships, he sailed San Martin to the rescue. As Howard began to pass by in Ark Royal, the Spaniard struck his top sails thereby inviting the Englishman to come alongside, use his grappling hooks, and then board for a hand to hand fight. But a broadside from the Ark resulted, with Howard effectively saying "No thank you for your invitation." As each English ship passed in line ahead, they too loosed off a broadside, they went about, and on the return pass fired off a second dose. The English ships harrying San Juan, now closed in around San Martin, and for an hour she stood alone returning fire, but taking a lot of punishment. A line of Spanish galleons now came up to succour the Spanish flagship, and the English withdrew, the Armada reformed and continued up the channel. For Medina Sidonia, it seemed that when he held the weather guage even briefly, he was unable to grapple and board, here he felt he would hold an advantage over his opposition. But, the English ships were fast enough and weatherly enough, to choose what distance they desired, and, their heavier guns in greater number, reinforced their desire to keep their distance, and not be enticed to fight in close with swords and pikes. As a last straw, the English gunners were better and could fire their weapons much faster, he was indeed in a bind. Howard too had his concerns, he had anticipated that his gunners would sink a number of the Spanish fleet at his first skirmish, or at least cripple ships, causing them to fall out of formation, allowing them then to be destroyed. This had not come to pass, only two prizes had been taken caused in the main through sailing accidents, although gun fire could have contributed to their capture. Howard had a huge worry, many ships had fired off most of their shot, he also needed more powder. The Channel Pursuit Continues. 2/6 August. 1588. Medina Sidonia had time to send off messages to Parma, exhorting him to be ready to embark his troops at short notice, and inviting him to come and join in an attack on the following English ships. At dawn on Wednesday the 3rd. of August, Gran Grifon was seen to be dropping behind the main body of the Armada, Recalde led a line of his first line ships to assist her. It was probably Drake in Revenge who sailing past the errant Spaniard gave her a broadside, came about and gave her a second, then crossing her stern close enough to rake her with musket shot. Other English ships joined in, and the bulk of the Spanish right rear was engaged, Gran Grifon was in trouble, a galleass managed to take her under tow, and get her into the safe arms of the fleet. Sixty Spanish sailors died and another seventy were wounded, but the Armada continued its stately march up the channel. By the afternoon the wind fell away completely, the two fleets were drifting only a mile apart, the occasional wind puff brought Howard relief in pinnaces, and harbour craft loaded with stores of powder and shot. On each occasion of a close encounter the Spanish had been able to rescue their badly
Adelaide / Ramses Hello Mac, Thanks much for the picture. You were on the Adelaide? Great, because it would be great to complement Willy's narrative with your comments. Do you have copys of Adelaide's logs? I will let you know when we get the interview into English. Also - any interest in the Korimoran vets' comments? Best regards,
As I indicated in my first E-mail to you, if you go to ALL ARTICLES at the bottom of Ahoy home page, and look for Blockade Runner, my story about Ramses is already up on my site. We would love to hear any comments from former crew members of Kormoran, and I did say that in the first E-Mail when I responded to your note, perhaps that did not get to you. No I do not have the log from Adelaide, yhey may be stored in our National Archives in Sydney. I look forward to Willy's story and anything you can give me about Kormoran and Sydney. Best Regards, Mac. U-767 Mac Just got back home (been to photograph HMHS Britannic ) to read these fine emails of yours, this is great news and as you say the power of the internet is just magic. I am away this week once again to photograph shipwrecks in the North Atlantic once I get home I shall follow this contact up as well as adjust my files with credit to you and our request to search for this war hero. I shall forward to you all and every mail I get from this fellow. I now must get out to the wreck and make a better job of the photography, no doubt this man will wish to see our video footage of the wreck. Regards,
SS Nestor A moving memorial site. I could not get the HMAS Canberra item to come up. My mother came out on the SS Nestor and she said they picked up and brought back to Australia many of the survivors of the HMAS Canberra. She had 2 young children and the sailors were marvellous at helping her with them. I just wondered if you had any information on the SS Nestor and this situation. Thankyou, Elizabeth, Thank you for your message. I do not know why you could not get my Canberra story to come up. I am at a complete loss about your mother's story about SS Nestor picking up survivors from HMAS Canberra. I can assure you no survivor from her sinking on the 9th. of August in 1942 in the Solomons came back to Australia in SS Nestor. We were all brought home to Sydney in the USA ship President Grant, myself included. So I am unable to help in regards your question. Regards,
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