This my rather poor attempt at translating the piece about the rearguard at Scheveningen

This is my rather lame attempt at translating a piece by Dr. Elias from Vol.V of Schetsen, about the rearguard action and aftermath at the Battle of Scheveningen. You can at least get a feel for what happened. I am still learning Dutch and expanding my vocabulary:

Only once in the rearguard action over 5 or 6 hours, off the north bank of the Meuse, did the English gain the upper hand in a sharp ship-to-ship fight. A ship from the North-Holland contingent was lost, the Prins Maurits of 32 guns, the ship of Captain Taenman, who acted as Vice-Admiral of Pieter Florissen’s squadron. The ship sank with the masts sticking up with the flag still flying. The ship sank, taking with it part of the crew. Only the topmasts showed out of the water, showing the place where the fight had happened.

It seemed that the entire Hoek of Holland seemed a graveyard of ships. Pieces of burnt and broken wreckage were taken on board and boats were washed ashore along the beach and in inlets along the bank. Three miles out to sea, from the mouth of the Meuse northward, was covered with floating figureheads, painted stern rails, pieces of head rails, mops, straps, and pigs. With our slow retirement in the night, about 11pm with burning fires past Katwijk came, with De With's rearguard of only 5 or 6 ships! Only small ships more wanted to distinguish he yet faintly for self out; all the remaining could not be seen and had as far away as they could. Yet the enemy had relented. Already with the increasing darkness at 8 o’clock, the firing came to an end. By moonlight, the pursuit went forward. Just about midnight, the wind shifted to the south-southwest, and the navigation through rain, bad visibility and high seas was too much for the English, and Monk was forced to give up and turned to the west northwest.