by John Marshall

“ The Standard’s guns bearing best on the frigates on shore, I sent the Thunderer’s boats to that ship, to be employed with her own under the direction of Captain Harvey, making the signal to him to destroy the enemy’s ships in the N.E. The Active’s having been previously made to follow and destroy a frigate which had cut her cable to get from under the Thunderer’s and Pompée’s fire, and run on shore on the European side, in the N.W. ”

“ As the redoubt on the point continued to fire, also as the ships kept their colours up, and the part of their crews which had deserted them remained armed on the beach, while a considerable body of Asiatic troops, both horse and foot, appeared on. ”

“ The Turkish squadron having thus been annihilated, Sir W. Sidney Smith’s division rejoined Vice-Admiral Duckworth, and proceeded with him to the anchorage off Prince’s Islands, about eight miles from Constantinople. While there Sir John obtained information that the enemy had landed a body of troops, and some guns, on the island of Prota, the only inhabitants of which were a few monks and nuns. An attempt was made to dislodge the Turks, many of whom took to their boats, leaving their cannon in possession of the British ”

“ Sir John T. Duckworth, in the Royal George, of 100 guns, accompanied by the Pompée, of 80 guns, Captain Richard Dacres, bearing the flag of Sir W. Sidney Smith; Ajax, of the same force, commanded by the Hon. H. Blackwood; Windsor Castle, a second-rate, Captain Charles Boyles; Repulse, 74, Hon. A. K. Legge; and Lucifer and Meteor bombs, arrived off the island of Tenedos, where he formed a junction with the squadron under Sir Thomas Louis, consisting of that officer’s flag-ship, the Canopus, of 80 guns; Thunderer, 74, Captain John Talbot; Standard, 64, Captain Thomas Harvey ”