sentences:  To try to lure them out, Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood pulled his ships-of-the-line ten leagues out to sea, leaving only "Hydra", under Captain George Mundy, and the brig-sloop in close blockade.On 23 February a strong easterly wind drove the British off their station, which led the French commander, Captain Louis-Charles-Auguste Delamarre de Lamellerie, to seize the opportunity to escape.On the evening of 26 February "Hydra" and "Moselle" were three leagues west of the Cadiz lighthouse when they sighted the French vessels.