PELLEW, Israel, bravery of, in fight between Nymphe
and Cleopatre, 448, 449;
promoted to post-captain, 451; 476.
Penmarcks, rocks, 458.
PENN, Sir William, his criticism of Four Days Battle, 12.
PERRY, Commander, 436.
Peuple Souverain, ship, 406.
Philadelphia, evacuation of, 284.
PITT, William, defends Admiral Byng, 105;
his dislike of Hawke, 106;
his military purpose, 110;
proposed series of descents on French
coast, 110;
his impetuosity a spur to laggards, 113;
his energy felt in civil administration,
114;
blames military and naval leaders, 115;
his injustice meets rebuke, 116;
profits by Hawke’s suggestions,
117;
leaves Hawke a commodore, 144;
succeeded by Lord St. Vincent in Admiralty,
380.
Plattsburg, 436.
Plymouth, ship Dutton driven ashore at, 452.
POCOCK, Admiral, 164; 165.
Poder, ship, 41, 42, 43, 86.
Point Judith, 281.
Pompee, ship, dismasted at Algeciras, 416;
withdraws under tow, 417; 418.
Porcupine, sloop-of-war, 326.
Portland, ship, 80.
Port Mahon, surrendered, 105; 156; 367.
Porto Rico, 244.
Portugal, Napoleon designs to occupy, 413; 414.
POWNOLL, Captain, intimacy of, with Pellew, 431;
commands frigate Apollo, 442;
death of, 442.
Prince, ship, 365.
Prince William, ship, 188.
QUEBEC, 432.
Queen Charlotte, ship, 250, 265; 305; 311; 313; 317; 469; 470; 472; 473.
Quiberon Bay, Hawke’s disregard of pilotage
difficulties at, 114;
Hawke’s triumph at, 122;
France determines to invade England, 124;
location of, 125;
Hawke crowds all sail for, 136;
islands of, cultivated as kitchen gardens,
141;
Howe at, 273; 460.
Ramillies, ship, 60, 61.
Real, ship, 41, 44.
Real Carlos, ship, 417; 420;
remarkable loss of, 420.
Red Sea, 403.
Reunion, frigate, quits Cherbourg, 399;
meets British frigate Crescent,
399;
action of, with Crescent, 399,
400.
Revenge, ship, 59; 60; 62.
Rhode Island, Saumarez sent to, 387;
British retreat to, 387.
Richelieu, river, 433; 434.
ROBESPIERRE, orders of, to Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse, 301.
Rochefort, Hawke’s expedition against, 111;
Conflans’s vessels escape to, 141.
Rochetts, country seat of Lord St. Vincent, 380.