HAWKE.
_Additional Signals_.
If upon seeing an enemy I should think it necessary to alter the disposition of the ships in the line of battle, and would have any ships change station with each other, I will make the signal to speak with the captains of such ships, and hoist the flag chequered red and blue on the flagstaff at the mizen topmast-head.[3] FOOTNOTES: [1] _I.e._ the older set.

They were Articles XV.

and XVI.

of the remodelled set used by Boscawen in 1759.
[2] This article was presumably issued by Hawke when in July 1756 he superseded Byng in the Mediterranean.

It seems designed to prevent a recurrence of the errors which lost the battle of Minorca, where the British van was crushed by coming into action long before the centre and rear.