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Sea Adventure: The fireships in Calais Roads

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The fireships in Calais Roads. Like the older torpedo boats and to a lesser degree the bomb-dropping aeroplane, the fireship's principal value was the confusion she caused, for she could only drift down with wind and tide when she had been set on fire and abandoned by her crew. In 1588, the Spanish Armada had anchored in Calais Roads and a few of their boats, manned by cool crews, could have grappled the English fireships and made them drift harmlessly past, but panic caused hopeless confusion, ships were seriously damaged in collision, and anchors (which would have prevented many wrecks later) were cut away. Illustration for one of a set of 50 cigarette cards on the subject of Sea Adventure, issued by Hignett Brothers in 1939.

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