But a fleet cannot be built in a day; and, when Admiral van Bylandt was sent out in 1777, his squadron consisted of five ships only.
Pressure was brought to bear on the States-General and the Admiralties, who in pursuance of economy had reduced the fleet to seventy-five ships.
The dead were then ransacked, and the booty brought all together to be divided; and there were twenty-five ships of the Jomsborg vikings in the booty.
The king went on to Hordaland; there he heard the news that Erling Skjalgson had left the country with a great force, and four or five ships.
When they were quite ready, and were leaving the harbour, the bonde army sailed north around Thiotande with twenty-five ships.
Five ships of the line were endeavoring to beat up the bay.
Four thousand men, commanded by lord Cobham, were embarked at the Isle of Wight, and sailed on the twenty-first day of September, under convoy of five ships of war conducted by admiral Mighels.
Europe was astonished to see this power send Count d'Estaing to America with twenty-five ships of the line, while at the same time M.
Sir John set sail at once with five shipsof the line and a body of troops, and on the 10th of March came in sight of five ships of De Pointes, who was evidently aware of him and getting out of the way.
Tourville had only forty-five ships of the line, and he had orders, if he met the English fleet, to engage.
They employed, the writer said, from thirty to thirty-five ships of from three hundred to six hundred tons burden.
Some of these ships had from thirty to fifty guns:[D] and one of their fleets, consisting of five ships, carried between them one thousand five hundred men.
Here he had assembled from twenty-two to twenty-five ships, built for him at Bombay and Surat, &c.
Some Dutch writers talk of thirty-five ships, and between five and six thousand men lost by the English; which is more than half their fleet, and very little less than all their seamen.
Eighteen years after, another of Woden's descendants, named Cerdric, came with his followers in five ships.
And this same year the king went out to Sandwich with thirty-five ships; and Athelstan, the churchwarden, succeeded to the abbacy of Abingdon, and Stigand returned to his bishopric.
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