by John Marshall, Royal Naval Biography — Hardyman… (1823)
“ The prisoners landed at Calcutta were 340 in number, from which we conclude Captain Tuckey did not assign the French ship a weaker crew than she actually had on board at the commencement of the battle. Schomberg, whose errors are very numerous, gives her 700 men. The Sybille had long eighteens on her main-deck; la Forte mounted 24-pounders. Captain Cooke lingered under the painful effects of his wound till the 23d May, when he expired at Calcutta, beloved and respected by all who knew him. ”
