Admiral Grieg has hurried the repairs of…
August 1788 CE
By August 5 the Russian fleet had set sail towards Sveaborg and in the early hours of August 6 encounters a Swedish squadron that been tasked on investigating the status of the Russian fleet outside of Sveaborg.
The Swedish ships flee in disorder to the safety of the fortress but the ship of the line Prins Gustaf Adolf runs into a previously unknown underwater rock at full speed and sails spread.
The Ship now grounds on the rock and starts flooding heavily.
Water quickly also floods the ship's gunpowder magazines, forcing it to strike its colors.
The Russians take the crew as prisoners but are unable to re-float the ship and instead torch it.
Meanwhile, prisoners the Swedes had captured from the Vladislav had carried relapsing fever which now spreads widely among the Swedish crews at Sveaborg, further impeding any chances of getting the fleet either ready to sail or ready to fight.
The Russian fleet under Admiral Grieg has total control over the Baltic Sea, and with new ships can deploy eighteen ships of the line.
Control of Reval makes it easy for the Russians to maintain their blockade.
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