Action - 1720 - December 18 - Action at Puerto Cabezas

Ships in Action:
Allies -

Captain Avis Faegun - Minerva MC

Captain Bryan Cook - Tigre MC

Captain James Raleigh - Capri MC

Enemys -

ATLANTICA Flint - Mercy Naval Frigate

Ubert Le Danios - Mercy Naval Frigate

Action Setup:
Earlier that evening Captains Cook and Raleigh had been patrolling the seas around Orleans and had only a small amount of luck in finding any targets. After hearing reports of pirate activity around Port Royal they decided to head that way also picking up myself, Captain Faegun, along the way. Upon reaching Port Royal we found that the pirates had moved on and werent to be seen. We decided that we'd make a patrol through Puerto Cabezas then head east towards Maracaibo and back north to Orleans. However, upon reaching PC we found ATLANTICA Flint sailing around the redzone and we decided to engage.

The Action Itself:
Strangely the French captain turned into the red and soon found himself within range of my Minerva MC. I engaged with the wind advantage shortly followed by Mr. Raleigh and Cook. Soon after the fight began we where joined by Ubert Le Danios sailing another Mercy. The decision was made to try and demast Flint as fast as possible. We where out gunned by the two Mercy's but we had the weather gauge and where sailing much lighter ships. Not long into the fight, and with serveral broadsides being exchanged, Flint and Mr. Cook where engaged in very close broadside to broadside firing with Mr. Cook going into structure damage and Flint's sails almost out. Bravely, Mr. Cook turned into the wind forcing Flint to do the same. This surely meant no escape, but made sure that one of the Mercy's was paralized. Captain Cook was then sunk, leaving Flint with only 30% sails and facing into the wind. With myself and Raleigh in a very good position after forcing Ubert to retreat a little so that he could repair his sails, we came across Flint's bow and with all haste started to sink the Mercy. Ubert, seeing what was happening tried to come infront of Flint so that he could block us. Thankfully he had to sail dead into the wind to do this and was unable to block us as we fired our last broadsides. The Mercy of ATLANTICA Flint was sent to the depths! We then made a turn hard to port, with the plan of reparing to full and coming back to sink Ubert. Unfortunatly, as we where doing so Mr. Raleigh gained an exit and was immediatly thrown from the battle. Knowing that I could not take the Mercy by myself, I sailed to safety to meet up with Mr. Cook and Raleigh.

The Result:
VICTORY was ours! Although losing a Tigre MC in the heat of battle, it made sure that we could sink the Mercy. An outstanding economic victory!

Lessons Learned:
Although being in smaller ships than the Mercy's, we where able to dictate the battle. If one of us had recieved significant damage, we would simply retreat a ways so that we could repair and then re-engage the enemy. Good teamwork between ourselves meant we where able to concentrate on one target, and later sink it. Myself and Captain Raleigh would like to thank Captain Cook for sacrificing his own ship by making, what turned out to be, a fantastic tactical decision.