 In the moonlight of 3 October just before midnight Mansell was on the lookout for Spinola 's galleys and were soon sighted . Mansell ordered an attack and off Dungeness ; Moon , Samson and the Answer charged at the galleys . Spinola seeing this decided to swing his galleys round to face the South East , the direction of the Flanders coast but in so doing the lead ship San Felipe ( St. Philip ) ran straight into the Victory and Hope forcing the galleys inadvertently further East . 
