R
RABBET to RAISING a purchase
RAKE to RATES
RATES to To REEVE
RECKONING to RHOMB-LINE
RECKONING
REFITTING
REIGNING-WINDS
RELIEVING-TACKLES
RENDERING
RENDEZVOUS
REPAIR
REPRISE
RETREAT
RHOMB-LINE
RIBBANDS to RIGGING-OUT a boom
RIGHTING to ROBANDS, or ROPE BANDS
ROGUES-YARN to ROUND-HOUSE
ROUNDING to ROYAL
RUDDER to RUNNING-RIGGING
Search
Contact us
RETREAT
RETREAT, the order or disposition in which a fleet of French men of war decline engagement, or fly from a pursuing enemy. The reader, who wishes to be expert in this manoeuvre, will find it copiously described by several ingenious French writers, particularly L'Hôte, Saverien, Morogues, Bourdé, and Ozane; who have given accurate instructions, deduced from experience, for putting it in practice when occasion requires. As it is not properly a term of the British marine, a more circumstantial account of it might be considered foreign to our plan. It has been observed in another part of this work (see the article HEAD)that the French have generally exhibited greater proofs of taste and judgment in the sculpture, with which their ships are decorated, than the English; the same candour and impartiality obliges us to confess their superior dexterity in this movement.
 |
Reference Works |  |
© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 241, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/1063.html