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“...GENERAL INFORMATION
3i
are aboard, and the steamer is slipping down
Southampton Water, passing Netley on the left,
or the port side, as it should now be called. On
turning into the Solent, Cowes is seen, and then
in succession Yarmouth, Totlands Bay, Alum Bay,
and the Needles to the left, with Hurst Castle
standing out on a spit of sand to the right.
The pilot is dropped off the Needles, and the
steamer proceeds to Cherbourg, where passengers
are embarked that evening, and thence, under the
present arrangements, to Vigo, whose magnificent Vigo,
bay has been the scene of many naval engage-
ments. The town was assaulted and burnt by the
English under Drake and Norris in 1589; and,
on October 22, 1702, the combined English and
Dutch fleets attacked the French and Spanish
in the port. Several men-of-war and galleons
were taken and many destroyed, and an abund-
ance of plate and other valuable effects fell into
the hands of the conquerors. Vigo was taken
by Lord Cobham in 1719, but relinquished...”
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