User blog comment:FlammeumDraco333/Tales From the Not so Blocky Seas/@comment-10905876-20150906145551/@comment-26778822-20150908001501

@Khoi:Correct, but I am surprised it doesn't get much attention. It was unfair, and a desperate move by the British, but they thought the French fleet would fall into the German's hands, and they decided to do it.