ain Hardy.
_Temeraire_ 98 " Harvey.
_Neptune_ 98 " Fremantle.
_Leviathan_ 74 " Bayntun.
_Conqueror_ 74 " Pellew.
_Britannia_ 100 {Rear-Admiral Lord Northesk.
{Captain Bullen.
_Agamemnon_ 64 " Sir E. Berry.
_Ajax_ 64 Lieutenant Pilfold.
_Orion_ 74 Captain Codrington.
_Minotaur_ 74 " Mansfield.
_Spartiate_ 74 " Sir F. Laforey.
_Africa_ 64 " Digby.

LEEWARD LINE.

Ships. Guns. Commanders.

_Royal Sovereign_ 100 {Vice-Admiral Collingwood.
{Captain Rotherham.
_Belleisle_ 74 " Hargood.
_Mars_ 74 " Duff.
_Tonnant_ 80 " Tyler.
_Bellerophon_ 74 " Cooke.
_Colossus_ 74 " Morris.
_Achille_ 74 " King.
_Dreadnought_ 98 " Conn.
_Polyphemus_ 64 " Redmill.
_Revenge_ 74 " Moorsom.
_Swiftsure_ 74 " Rutherford.
_Defiance_ 74 " Durham.
_Thunderer_ 74 Lieutenant Stockham.
_Defence_ 74 Captain Hope.
_Prince_ 98 " Grindall.

Besides one frigate of 38 guns, three of 36, and two brigs of 12
and 8 guns.

This was the fleet that lay off Cape Sta. Maria, some fifty miles from
Cadiz, on Saturday, 19 October, 1805, and received from the frigates
watching the port the message, passed on by connecting ships, that the
enemy was at last coming out.

Villeneuve, like Nelson, had originally divided his fleet into three
divisions. On the day of battle it fought in an order which was (as we
shall see) partly the result of chance, arrayed in a long double line. He
had deliberately mixed together in his array the French and Spanish units
of his fleet, to avoid the dangers that might arise from mutual jealousies
if they were drawn up in divisions apart. Instead of giving the list of his
fleet according to the _ordre de bataille_ drawn up in Cadiz harbour long
before the event, it will be more convenient to arrange the list as they
actually lay in line from van to rear on the day of battle.

The following, then, is the list of the allied Franco-Spanish