British demonstrate naval supremacy in The Moonlight Battle
British Admiral Sir George Rodney, with 18 ships-of-the-line, engages an inferior Spanish squadron of 11 battleships commanded by Don Juan de Langara off the southwestern coast of Portugal at Cape St. Vincent, in what comes to be known as The Moonlight Battle. (Ships-of-the-line is the 18th century term for ships substantial enough to be used in a battle line, a tactic of war in which two lines of ships faced off against each other.)
Janusz Sikorski was a Polish singer , performer of shanties , author of translations and lyrics of many songs on sailing and sea themes, sailor.
He graduated from the Faculty of Polish Philology at the University of Warsaw . He graduated from the High School of Music in Koszalin in the oboe class . He made his debut in 1971 as a vocalist of . . .Read More »