 To the right of Queen Charlotte , HMS Brunswick had initially struggled to join the action . <unk> behind the flagship , her captain John Harvey received a <unk> from Howe for the delay . <unk> by this signal , Harvey pushed his ship forward and almost <unk> Queen Charlotte , blocking her view of the eastern half of the French fleet for a time and taking severe damage from French fire as she did so . Harvey hoped to run aboard Jacobin and support his admiral directly , but was not fast enough to reach her and so attempted to cut between Achille and Vengeur du Peuple . This manoeuvre failed when Brunswick 's anchors became entangled in Vengeur 's rigging . Harvey 's master asked if Vengeur should be cut loose , to which Harvey replied " No ; we have got her and we will keep her " . The two ships swung so close to each other that Brunswick 's crew could not open their gunports and had to fire through the closed <unk> , the ships battering each other from a distance of just a few feet . 
