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" Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point. But, in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy. "
Fleet Tactics Under Steam - Page 5
by Foxhall Alexander Parker - 1870 - 250 pages
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Episodes from Southey's Life of Nelson

Robert Southey - Sailors - 1907 - 102 pages
...be that of a close and decisive action, would supply any deficiency of signals, and act accordingly. In case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." One of the last orders of this admirable man...
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Nelson and Other Naval Studies

James Richard Thursfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 446 pages
...their particular Line as their rallying point. But, in case Signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no Captain can do very wrong if he places his Ship alongside that of an Enemy." Here, again, is a manifest reminiscence of Nelson's own action at St. Vincent — for us, at any rate,...
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Journeys Through Bookland

Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...be that of a close and decisive action, will supply any deficiency of signals, and act accordingly. In case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." One of the last orders of this admirable man...
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The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 27

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1096 pages
...beyond alt others "; and he left his captains free from all hampering rules by telling them that " No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." In short the execution was to be as circumstances should dictate, subject to the guiding...
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England and Napoleon (1801-1815)

Great Britain - 1912 - 154 pages
...circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line as their rallying point ; but, in case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood,...if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." Should the enemy wait in line of battle — as he actually did at Trafalgar — to receive an attack...
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Publications of the Navy Records Society, Volume 40

Great Britain - 1912 - 476 pages
...was against it that Nelson entered the celebrated caveat : ' In case signals can neither be seen nor clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy ' — a legacy of the great commander which is often quoted without the ' very,' the one most important...
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Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens, Volume 40, Issues 8-12

Naval art and science - 1912 - 906 pages
...sein Schiff längseits dem eines Feindes legt. (But in case signals can neither be seen or perfectly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.) Betreffs des von Luv aus beabsichtigten Angriffes ; der Feind befindet sich in Schlachtlinie, bereit...
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The Life of Edward Mountagu, K.G.: First Earl of Sandwich (1625-1672)

Frank Reginald Harris - Admirals - 1912 - 402 pages
...but the 1 Sandwich MSS. Journal, vol. i., f. 337. Cf. Nelson's memorandum on the eve of Trafalgar : " No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." a JS Corbett, Fighting Instructions (1530-1816), contains the first set. 3 The council minutes are...
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The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence

Alfred Thayer Mahan - Anglo-French War, 1778-1783 - 1913 - 382 pages
...It is like marching towards the sound of guns, or, to use Nelson's words, "In case signals cannot be understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy." The "In Case," however, needs also to be kept in mind; and that it was Nelson who said it. Utterances...
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Wars of the 19th Century

Charles Walker Robinson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1914 - 290 pages
...beyond all others " ; and he left his captains free from all hampering -r,MleJ by telling them that " No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy." In short the execution was to be as circumstances should dictate, subject to the guiding...
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