Excerpt from Documentary History of the War, Vol. 7: Naval Part 3 After being in their open cutter for nearly twelve hours, two officers and sixty-eight men from h.m.s. Formidable were rescued by the Brixham fishing smack Provident (owner and skipper, William Pillar) some fifteen miles from Berry Head. They were bearing w.n.w. When seen. At the time the Provident was running before the gale for shelter to Brixham, but when off the Start had to heave to owing to the force of the wind. She had just previously been struck by heavy seas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.