Captain J.R. Dacres.

Prince George, Rear-admiral W. Parker.
Captain John Irwin.

Blenheim, Captain Thos. L. Frederick.

90 Namur, Captain James H. Whitshed.

74 Captain, Commodore Horatio Nelson.
Captain R.W. Miller.
Goliath, Captain Charles Knowles.
Excellent, Captain Cuthbert Collingwood.
Orion, Captain Sir James Saumarez.
Colossus, Captain Geo. Murray.
Egmont, Captain John Sutton.
Culloden, Captain Thomas Troubridge.
Irresistible, Captain Geo. Martin.

64 Diadem, Captain Geo. H. Towny.

38 Minerve, Captain Geo. Cockburn.

32 Lively, Captain Lord Garlies.
Niger, Captain Ed. Jas. Foote.
Southampton, Captain Jas. Macnamara.

Slps Bonne Citoyenne, Captain Chas. Lindsay.
Raven, Captain W. Prowse.

Cut. Fox, Lieutenant John Gibson.

Sir John Jervis was well aware that the Spanish fleet might be nearly
double his force, but he kept working up towards the position where he
expected to meet them. On the 13th, in the morning, the Minerve,
Captain Cockburn, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Nelson,
(which was afterwards shifted to the Captain, 74) having on board Sir
Gilbert Elliot, late viceroy of Corsica and others, came into the
fleet with intelligence that on the 11th, soon after quitting
Gibraltar, she had been chased by two Spanish line-of-battle ships;
and that afterwards, when in the mouth of the Straits, she got sight
of the Spanish fleet. Before sunset the signals were made for the
British fleet to prepare for battle, and to keep in close order all
the night, during which the signal-guns of the Spaniards were
distinctly heard. At half-past two, A.M. the Portuguese frigate
Carlotta spoke the Victory; and her captain (Campbell) gave
information that the Spanish grand fleet, commanded by Don Josef de
Cordova, was only five leagues to windward; that they had sailed from
Carthagena on the 1st of the month, and consisted of twenty-eight sail
of the line, viz.

Guns.
130 Santissima Trinidada.
(four-decker).

112 C