Note 20 — CHAP. XXV. A NAVAL STUDY—continued.

“I think their yards were not locked.”—Evidence of Mr. Fairfax, Minutes, p. 144. It was, however, so nearly, that Mr. Fairfax, a witness carefully in Lord Gambier’s interest, could only think about it. He reluctantly admitted that all lay “within a ship’s length of each other,” and ships lying aground on their bilge inclined towards each other at an angle of thirty degrees are—if not locked together—completely incapable of resistance.