Myngs

The port column was led by the Whirlwind, followed by Myngs and Moorsom, which ships were to patrol to the northward of Zeebrugge; and the

The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets Or, the Fall of the German Navy

The command of the expedition was entrusted to Myngs, who in 1662 was again in the Indies on the frigate "Centurion."

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Myngs and his fleet sailed away on 23rd February, but the "Centurion" did not reach Port

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Myngs was an active, intrepid commander, but apparently avaricious and impatient of control.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Jamaica, and when Myngs found that there was no power in the colony to try and condemn ships taken by virtue of the Navigation Laws, it only added fuel to his dissatisfaction.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

At the second fort Myngs was wounded by a gun in three places.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Myngs would be found no better than he is, a proud-speaking vain fool, and a knave in cheating the State and robbing merchants.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

Myngs was one of those leaders whom men will follow anywhere; and in the diary of

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

The manoeuvre by which Myngs attempted from to windward to divide the enemy's fleet and so gain the wind of part of it seems to be exactly what the new instruction contemplated, while its remarkable provision for a containing movement seems designed to prevent the disastrous confusion that ensued after the Dutch line had been broken.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

-- _Ed. _ 1906, ii.p. 147.] [Footnote 175: However, the writer of the "Present St.te of Jamaica" says (p. 39) that Myngs got no great plunder, neither at Campeache nor at St. Jago.] [Footnote 176: Beeston's Journal; Brit.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922