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At the battle of Trafalgar, Collingwood, in the Royal Sovereign, led the lee-line of fourteen ships, Nelson, in the Victory, was at the head of the weather-line, consisting of fourteen ships.

Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean From Authentic Accounts Of Modern Voyagers And Travellers; Designed For The Entertainment And Instruction Of Young People Marmaduke Park

Collingwood, in the _Royal Sovereign_, led the lee-line of thirteen ships; the _Victory_ led the weather-line of fourteen.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Since with the exception of the Agamemnon and the Leviathan, which had only temporarily replaced the Defence while she watered, the whole of the ships named belonged to Collingwood's division, the resulting organisation would have been, lee-line nine ships, weather-line eight ships, and eight for the advanced squadron -- an organisation which in relative proportion was almost exactly that which he had explained to Keats.

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

The fleet had then the appearance, generally, of having formed in two lines, thus: so that the ship to leeward seemed to be opposite the space left between two in the weather-line.

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

The _Victory_ led the weather-line of fourteen ships, and Collingwood, in the _Royal Sovereign_, led the lee-line of thirteen ships.

The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers 1859

"Where was the man in your lubberly crew that could lay upon a yard with this here black, or haul upon a lee-earing, while he held the weather-line?

The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820