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 368 THE CANNONADE OF CHAP. Battery, iuul the Albion, as lier Coinniander reck- Xlll. oned it, within GOO yards of the Wasp. squadrou. Line now Wheu this had bceti done, the whole nuraber of formed I'Y ,,,. i • i r i i c tiiein-shoiu thoso ships which 1 liavc spoken or as composing the iu-shore squadron, were ranging in a single line which ran nearly parallel with the shore, and at distances from it of from 600 to 800 vards. The main Meauwhilc the main division had been hasten- ing to come into line. It comprised the Britannia, 120, the flag-ship (towed by the Furious), the Queen, 116 (towed by the Vesuvius), the Trafalgar, 120 (towed by the Eetribution), the Vengeance, 84 (towed by the Highflyer), the Bellerophon, 78 (towed by the Cyclops), and the Eodney, 90 (towed by the Spiteful). These ships were to anchor in prolongation of the French line of battle, and when once in their berths (with our in-shore squadron on their left front), they would form the right of the English fleet. The sev- eral steamers which propelled them were lashed to each sailing-ship on her port-side, it being in- tended that the shii)S in this main division of the fleet should pour their fire from the star- board broadsides. During the progress of the main division from the roads off the Katcha, the propelling steamers (being already lashed on in the way described) were, by consequence, on the landward side of the vessels propelled ; but, be- fore taking up her assigned position in front of the entrance to the Sebastopol roadstead, eacli ship was to make a sweep round, and present