With the Bombay still struggling to catch up with the chase, the onus had well and truly fallen on Captain Isadore Cope to harry the French ship and slow down her escape.
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With the Bombay still struggling to catch up with the chase, the onus had well and truly fallen on Captain Isadore Cope to harry the French ship and slow down her escape.
She was, however, still taking terrible damage from the more powerful guns of the Frenchman, and how long she could maintain the chase was now very much in question.
Captain Cope was very reluctant to give the French best and just like a Terrier dog held on as long as he could in order to give Bombay time to make up the lost ground.
Another round found its mark and no real gain seemed to be bringing the damaged Bombay into range.
The Frenchman now came onto her best point of sailing.
In sheer desperation Captain Cope closed to a suicidal range.
Miraculously the broadsides of both ships failed to hit, and Cope had to give up all hope of preventing the French ship slipping past him and escape to vent its mayhem in the Gulf and Indian Ocean.
Realizing that the 50 was slipping out of their grasp Captain Smithers played his final card.
In a gamble that would ensure the enemy escaped if it failed, he came about to windward lost all way and loosed off his forrard section of guns at extreme range which were all that he could bring to bear. The damage was only moderate.
Normally it would have been all up with the chase, but this final fling was just sufficient to break the resolve of the French, and to the surprise of both British Captains her flag came tumbling down.
A dangerous situation to the British hold on the Indian Sub Continent had been averted at least for the present.
BUTCHER'S BILL.
BRITISH SHIPS
THE FRENCH.
Another great AAR from you, Rob.
It’s good to see someone still sailing.
I hope to get a fight going, but I’ve mostly been working on my Spanish lately.
Thanks Jonas.
I'm trying to bet a game a week going, but keep coming up against real life!
Rob.
Top notch post and battle Rob. I wish there were more books about the HEIC around. I would love to read a series depicting life aboard one of their warships. They must have been very busy days.
Have you read this series of books by Ellis Meacham Gary?
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I would also like to thank you for the Rep points and comments for the AAR Gary.:thanks:
Rob.
Thanks Rob, I will keep my eye out for those.
An excellent action and telling, nice on Rob
Thank you Chris.
Rob.
Nice Action
I enjoyed reading the captain adventure and the naval action.
Regards
I scored all three of those books Rob recommended this morning in Kindle format. $2.99 each AUD! Cheap and I mean really cheap. :drinks:
Glad to hear I have been of service Gary.
I usually get all my novels on Kindle nowadays, and reserve hard copy for Non-fiction. That saves me having to build even more bookcases.:wink:
Rob.
Back in the Indian Ocean, lots of adventures to look forward to.:thumbsup:
I know you are posting 1 picture and text at a time because of the site problems but I like the format. It's a bit like turning the page of a book, reading one post, turn page read next post and so on.
A close fight and a well written one as well.
Cheers
Cheers John.
It is a bit of a fag doing each one and then having to cut the duplicate picture, but much better than having repeats of every picture.
Glad you like the format.
Rob.
A close fight there, Rob, but success for the HEIC.
Thank you for all the rep Paul.
Glad you are enjoying the AAR's. It is quite a while since I stopped doing the HEIC ones, so I thought I would resurrect them for a while with a few of the Offices moved up a notch or two in the meantime.
Rob.