The Story of the British Navy From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
The Story of the British Navy From the Earliest Times to the Present Day
E Keble Edward Keble Chatterton
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" The carrack, the reader may be reminded, was the typical Spanish type of big trading ship. " Sharon " was the Anglicised form of spelling " Charran, " of whom we shall hear more presently. The request for the Spanish victuallers was granted, and they sailed in company with the English fleet. When near Brest the French fled back into Bertheaume Bay, where they took refuge under the protection of 1 " An hundred augur holes. " TO THE DEATH OF MARY 93 their forts, nor could they be enticed out. H...oward therefore, not inclined to suffer delay, determined to sail into Bertheaume Bay, but inasmuch as he was badly supplied with pilots, he had the misfortune to cast one of his largest ships on the rocks, and she became a total loss. Now in the meantime the French had sent to the Mediterranean for a number of Maltese galleys, which were to aid them against the English fleet. These galleys were under the command of one Pierre Jean le Bidoulx. In common parlance this Maltese knight's name became abbreviated to Pierre Jean, and so " Pregent, " but to the English seamen he was familiarly known as " Pery John.
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