Excerpt from The Commander of the Hirondelle
The lee division of the fleet consisted of five seventy-fours, with another historic ship - the Cul loden, under Troubridge - leading. These ships were thrust with cool audacity almost into the very throat of the French harbour. They traversed, with the ordered regularity of so many gigantic sea sentinels, the narrow space betwixt Cape Septet and the Hyeres. As the head of the moving line reached the furthest point of its course, and fell off on its return track, the shore batteries broke into a sudden splutter of wrathful fire. And it was a point of honour for each ship, in turn, as it followed its leader, and went about, to go as near the angry French guns as possible.
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