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[5] Howe's insistence on these points both here and in Articles XXII.-XXV.

is curious in view of the fact that the use of fireships in action had gone out of fashion.

From 1714 to 1763 only one English fireship is known to have been 'expended,' and that was by Commander Callis when he destroyed the Spanish galleys at St.Tropez in 1742.

At the peace of 1783 the Navy List contained only 17 fireships out of a total of 468 sail.

Howe had two fireships on the First of June, 1794, but did not use them.
THE SIGNAL BOOKS OF THE GREAT WAR INTRODUCTORY The second form in which the new Fighting Instructions, originated by Lord Howe, have come down to us, is that which became fixed in the service after 1790; that is, instead of two folio volumes with the Signals in one and the Explanatory Instructions in the other, we have, at least after 1799, one small quarto containing both, and entitled 'Signal Book for Ships of War.' The earliest known example, however, of the new quarto form is a Signal Book only, which refers to a set of Instructions apparently similar to those of 1799.