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The Loss of the Victoria 22
June 1893
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What,
according to Hough and others, Admiral Tryon probably - or even must
- have intended.
Rear-Admiral Markham would have turned Camperdown, but
with less helm than the flagship - thereby going around the outside of
Victoria's
turn - and the rest of the second division would have followed him.
This manoeuvre would have "preserved the order of the fleet" as Hough et al interpret this expression, that is Victoria would still have been leading the right- hand column, whereas if the "impossible" manoeuvre had somehow been carried out Victoria would have then been leading the left-hand column, with Markham and the Camperdown to starboard of her.
[ From "Admirals in Collision" by Richard Hough, Hamish Hamilton, London 1959 ]
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