Greenwich

Posted by Brian on Wednesday 18th of June 2014 20:30

The London Gazette
Publication date:10 May 1680 (continued from the ship [Citron Tree]
On the 11th instant about noon, Captain Carverth, in the Greenwich, being about 10 leagues W.S.W. from Rota-point, discovered four ship to windward, which bore down upon him with all the sail they could make, showing English colours till they came within a league of him and then put out their Turkish colours; in the meantime, Captain Carverth having put his ship into a fighting posture, spread his colours, and fired a gun of defiance; about five, the Turks bore round up on him, he there upon tack'd, and stood right of them, which they no sooner saw, but getting their larboard tacks on board, with all the sail they could make, stood to the eastward from him; Captain Carverth gave them chase for above an hour, but seeing he could do no good,night coming on, and fearing to lose two vessels he had under his convoy, gave over the chase. The next morning Captain Pym, in the Hampshire, came up with the four said Algerians, and having maintained a fight of ten hours with them all, had so disabled the ?Calabath? a ship of 28 guns, that the Adventure coming in, she was taken (and is now in Tangier Road) and the other three fled; but Vice-Admiral Herbert and other English frigates, who upon the noise of the guns, came from Tangier, assisting in the chase of them, one of them viz. the Orange-Tree, a new ship of 28 guns, was stranded and destroyed.