ABSTRACT
About 19 October the gale in the Straits abated, and the scattered shipping worked back towards Gibraltar. Lord Keith brought in forty of the most damaged ships to Gibraltar bay, ordering the 74-gun Ajax to escort the rest to an anchorage on the Mrican coast. Abercromby, a notorious Jonah who never put to sea without raising a tempest, had fetched up in the bight of Cadiz. But the worst had been averted: thirty or forty ships, feared lost when they were trapped by the gale in the bay of Tetuan, had survived when the wind unexpectedly 'southerned'.1
