The Sea lion of India- Part 3
In the previous part of the blog, we saw that the Fraam was unable to even touch Vijaydurg and the British were utterly disappointed and feared that their greatest investment would turn futile. In this part, let us see how the British navy tried to salvage their position and ultimately faced utter humiliation and chaos at the hands of the able Maratha navy. THE BATTLE CONTINUES- After the Fraam's cannons were unable to reach even 20-30 yards away from the Fraam, the British decided to inspect the construction of the ship. It was found that the some areas of the ship were not optimally designed to enable the ship to throw cannon balls at a large distance while avoiding the enemy fire. Such were the designing skills of the so-called most powerful navy of the Indian coast at the time. The said areas were re designed which led to weakening of some areas of the Fraam. Now the distance of the cannon balls fired from the Fraam increased a little. Meanwhile, the warships Chand...