According to the newspaper El Restaurador consisted the French squadron off Cadiz of the ships of the line Centaure (86 guns, 36 and 24pdrs), 80-gun Colosse, 80-gun Trident, frigates 60-gun Guerrieré, 58-gun Venus, 44-gun Antigone, 44-gun Galatée, 44-gun Néreide, 44-gun Themis, 44-gun Cybèle, corvettes Bayadère (24-24pdr carronades), 20-gun Egérie, 24-gun Moselle, brigs Zèbre (16-14pdr carronades), 18-gun Dragon, 18-gun Antelope, 10-gun Lynx and the 16-gun Lilloise and further more gun chaolupes, bomb galliots and vessel armed with howitzers.
