A reader, Steven Webber, pointed out that Richard Ollard's book about Robert Holmes, Man of War gives the names of three more of Holmes' captains in the Battle of the Smyrna Convoy. I have updated the Word document to include those names plus some comments on the battle by Frank Fox.
Frank says that English gunnery in the battle may have been poor. They English also did not do well at close fighting in the second and third wars. The bottom line is that the English should have done better, but did not. Partly, the explanation may have been that the Dutch fought well (as simple as that). I have included more of what Frank had to say in the updated document.
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