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Sunday 5 May 2019

Russian and Spanish warships fighting with each other in the Mediterranean according to the Dutch newspaper Middelburgsche Courant dated 24 May 1775

Altona, 18 May. Letters from London reported that a officer of a British warship in the Mediterranean sighted a battle of 3 hours between a Russian ship of the line and two Spanish frigates. Of the latter was one sunk. The reason for the battle was unknown.