The meaning is that a ship, when she has delivered her fire, cannot retire by countermarch and leave her next in file to deliver its fire in turn.

The whole system, it will be seen, is based on end-on fire, as a preparation for boarding and small-arm fighting.
[9] _Viniere toda junta puesta in ala_.
[10] This sentence in the original is incomplete, running on into the next chapter.

For clearness the construction has been altered in the translation.
[11] This remarkable evolution is a little obscure.

The Spanish has '_y moviendo asimismo los otros del otro bordo, aquellos que tienen sus carretones que andan per cima de cubierta y toldo_.' [12] _Versos_, breech-loading pieces of the secondary armament of ships, and for aiming boats.

Bases were of the high penetration or 'culverin' type.
[13] _Dando barrenos_.