‘There’s the Superb. And the Thames. Then two Spanish three-deckers – one’s the Real Carlos, I am almost sure: vice-admiral’s flagship, in any event. Two seventy-fours. No, a seventy-four and probably an eighty-gun ship.’ ‘Argonauta,’ said one of the masons. ‘Another three-decker. And three frigates, two French.’
A huge Franco-Spanish fleet
