wounded. Colossus initially engaged the French 74-gun ship of the line Swiftsure to her larboard side and her first broadside killed seventeen of Swiftsures crew, but she was then also attacked by the 74-gun ship of the line Argonaute, which smashed into Colossuss starboard side. It was while she was sandwiched between these two ships that Colossus took most of her punishment, fighting both ships for half an hour until Argonaute shied away after receiving over 200 casualties in the engagement. At one point Colossus was almost overwhelmed by a boarding party, but she was saved when her crew on the lower decks climbed up and fought off the attackers. After Argonaute had moved away Morris continued to engage Swiftsure until that vessel lost two of her masts and was described as nothing more than a hulk. Colossus afterwards moved on to attack the Spanish 74-gun ship of the line Bahama, which had been firing on Colossus from a distance, and Morris succeeded in destroying her mizzenmast before obtaining her surrender, Bahama being in a hopeless situation surrounded by four ships of the line. Having finished with Bahama, Morris quickly began to manoeuvre his ship as Swiftsure had regained control of herself and was attempting to rake his stern. The ship was finally relieved in battle by Orion which sailed up behind Swiftsure and fired three broadsides into her, forcing the French ship to finally surrender. Morris then began to turn Colossus into the wind to continue in the fighting, but as he did so her mizzenmast fell over the starboard side, signifying the end of Colossuss contributions to the battle. Morris himself had become a casualty during the fighting, receiving a severe wound to his thigh or knee, but he stayed on deck after applying his own tourniquet until the combat had finished, at which point he fainted from a lack of blood and was carried below. Colossus was then taken in tow by the 64-gun ship of the line HMS Agamemnon, her mainmast having been cut away on the afternoon of 23 October and Morris in fear that she would succumb to her many injuries and founder. The ship survived the storm of the following night and sailed to Gibraltar with Agamemnon and the 74-gun ship of the line HMS Bellerophon on 27 October. There Morris recovered from his injury. Later service Morris, along with the other captains