Men o'War

Spanish: 1 1st rate, 3 3rd rates, all raw crews.  Jim
French: 1 2nd rate,  3 3rd rates, all regular crews. Mark
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British: 1 1st rate, 1 2nd rate, 4 3rd rates, in 2 squadrons, all elite crews. Chris

The wind is blowing down the table from the far end.  The Spanish are in the nearest corner, the French in the RH corner.  The Brits at opposite ends of the far siude of the table. 

The Spanish held their course to windward while the Brits turned away to pass them the leeward.  Both sides started loaded with chain shot, then chanegd to standard solid shot.   

The French converged on the other British squadron, but turned to windward of them.  Again both sides atrted with chain shot, then changed to solid shot.

In both actions both side suffered a lot of rigging damage, but both aliied squadrons gained an advantage at the start of trh combat geting 2 shios to 1, then used the weather gauge to lap around the rear of the enemy line & pound the rear ship.

The Brit squadron fighting the French had their lead ship too badly damaged to stay in the fight & the rear ship so badly damaged it struck it's colours. The lead 2 ships decide to free downwind.
The Brit squadron fighting the Spanish had done serious damage to the Spanish, but their rear ship is a total shambles, so they too decided to break off & run downwind while they still had enough rigging to do so..  
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