Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Navy in the War of 1739-48, Vol. 2 In addition to the above Ships of force, there were small craft ofi the coast of the Romagna, and in the Adriatic, as well as Off Villefranche, Sardinia and Toulon. Mathews had Six Ships unfit or quite unready for service; so that, at this moment, he had actually available on the Riviera twenty-three ships of the line, including 50-gun ships. He was joined a week later by four more ships: 'berwick, ' 'elizabeth, ' 'princessa' and 'marlborough.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.