Chapter IX: On Board Our Flagships at Trafalgar:—captain Hardy and (9)

[13] Having regard to the number of foreigners on board the _Victory_, these facts are in point. For more than fifty years previous to 1794, foreigners were permitted by Act of Parliament to enter on board British merchantmen trading overseas to the extent of three-quarters of the crew. After 1794, “for the encouragement of British seamen,” an Act was passed reducing the proportion of foreigners to one-quarter of the ships’ companies, which, however, still left a large number available at various places for the purposes of impressment for the Navy. As to the “Impress Service”: in 1805, to keep up the supplies of men, forty-three permanent stations or “rendezvous” were maintained in Great Britain and Ireland, with an establishment of twenty-seven captains and sixty-three lieutenants, permanently on duty, established “in those parts of the United Kingdom where seamen chiefly resort, at which stations volunteers and impressed men are asked, and deserters from the Naval Service are apprehended.” They were distributed as follows: London and Thames, two captains and ten lieutenants; Deal and the Downs, Liverpool, and Dundee, a captain and three lieutenants at each place; Falmouth, Hull, Cork, Cowes, Poole, Waterford, Bristol, Londonderry, Leith, Shields, Dublin, Portsmouth, and Gosport, a captain and two lieutenants at each place; Newcastle, Sunderland, Yarmouth, Glasgow and Greenock, Dunbar, Limerick, Southampton, Romsey, Exeter, Lynn, Swansea, Folkestone, Ramsgate, Margate, Lerwick, and the Isle of Man, a captain and one lieutenant, or a lieutenant independently, at each place.

[14] How the _Téméraire_ played her part at Trafalgar is fully related in “Famous Fighters of the Fleet,” pp. 231-275.

[15] “Ab.” stands for Able Seaman; “Ordinary” for Ordinary Seaman; “L.M.” for Landman or Landsmen, the lowest general rating on board a man-of-war, comprising new and raw hands for the most part not yet worked up into shape, though capable of deck duties and at the guns.

[16] Died of their wounds in the week following the battle.

[17] The letter was published in some of the newspapers in the last week of December, 1805. According to the _Victory’s_ muster book there was a “James Bagley” among the Marines.

[18] See “The Enemy at Trafalgar” for what they witnessed from the French and Spanish fleet; also for a Spanish picture of Collingwood’s duel with the Spanish admiral.

[19] Bounce remained Collingwood’s faithful companion to the end; all through those five long, weary years of continuous cruising between Cadiz and the Dardanelles and off Toulon, until just before, for the worn out, prematurely-aged warrior himself, death came at length to close his sufferings, poor Bounce one dark night fell overboard and was seen no more.

[20] Trafalgar was also, as it happened, the _Victory’s_ fifth fight. Collingwood’s _Royal Sovereign_ had been eighteen years launched, and had been twice in battle. The _Sovereign_ also was actually the biggest ship in the British fleet that day, 2175 tons burthen, as compared with the 2162 tons of the _Victory_, and the 2091 tons of the _Britannia_. The _Téméraire_, again, was the hardest hitter in the whole fleet, owing to the exceptionally heavy ordnance that she carried on her upper deck. Of other ships, the _Agamemnon_, the third oldest ship present at Trafalgar, had fought her first two battles with Kempenfelt and Rodney—names that already had passed into history. Other ships of Nelson’s fleet, contemporaries mostly of the _Royal Sovereign_, had taken part in as many as four fleet battles. Four of them had been in Lord Howe’s fleet on the “Glorious First of June,” three at St. Vincent, five with Nelson at the Nile, three at Copenhagen. Three of the _Britannia’s_ consorts—the _Belleisle_, the _Tonnant_, and the _Spartiate_—were French-built ships, prizes won in battle. Two of them, indeed, had been captured by Nelson himself at the Nile. The average age of the ships of Nelson’s Trafalgar fleet was seventeen years, an age at which in the case of our modern-day battleships they are reckoned as off the active list and in sight of the sale list. Only six were less than five years old. One ship only was, so to speak, a new ship, the _Revenge_, in October, 1805, serving her first commission within seven months of leaving the stocks at Chatham Dockyard.

[21] Of the names mentioned, Mr. Johnstone may possible have been John Johnson, an ex-midshipman, rated an A.B. in July, 1805. Mr. Jones may have been Mr. Charles S. Jones, the captain’s coxswain. There were sixteen Jones’s altogether on the _Britannia’s_ books, but none were among the officers, master’s mates, and midshipmen, or the first-class volunteers. There was no Lever on board the _Britannia_ in any capacity.

INDEX

“Able men,” 13

Adlercron, Colonel, 81, 83

Admiralty visit to Chatham 1764, 187

Ages of the _Victory’s_ crew at Trafalgar, 232

Ahmed Shah, 105

Aikenhead, J., midshipman, 271

Alarm at Chatham 1764, 188-90

Albemarle (Monk), Duke of, 28, 68-70

Anson, Lord, Admiral, 62, 161, 177, 178

Antigua, 193, 199, 203

Apodoca, Spanish Admiral, 63

Armada, Spanish, 22-7, 59

“Armed Associations,” 37

Arrest of Wolfe Tone, 214

Baker, Matthew, 2, 6, 16, 17, 28

Baker, “Old Honest Jem,” 11, 19

Balasore Roads, 81, 84, 85, 86, 105, 112

Banks of Flanders, Battles of, 28, 127

Barbados, 192, 193, 202

Barclay, J., Lieut., 275

Barfleur, Battle off Cape, 29, 67, 117, 127, 128, 143, 167, 171

Barham, Lord, Admiral, 62

Bart, Jean, 29

Bartholomew’s Day, Battle of, 58

“Bases,” 12

Basseterre Roads, 194, 195, 202, 204

Battle Honours of H.M.S. _Kent_, 67, 68

Baxster, Boatswain, 9, 16

Beatty, Dr., 34

Beauffremont, de, French Admiral, 144, 153

Beeston, Sir George, Captain, 22, 25, 26

Belleisle, 143

Benbow, Admiral, 19, 29, 60, 171

Bengal Army, 79

Bently, Captain, 137, 146, 147

Berryer, M., Minister of Marine, 184

“Black Dick,” 146

Blackwood, Captain, 215, 248, 250, 257

“Black Hole,” The, 78, 80, 83, 86, 105

Blake, Admiral, 66

“Bloody Foreland,” 210

Bombay, 82, 86, 88, 105

Bomb-ketch, 169

Bompart, Commodore, 210-12

Borough, Captain Stephen, 6, 7, 15

Boscawen, Admiral, 30, 127, 129, 139, 161, 165, 184

Boscawen’s wig, 135

Bouillé, de, Marquis, 193, 199, 201, 204

“Bounce,” Collingwood’s dog, 262, 263

Boys, Commodore, 62

Braces, The, 87, 88

Brereton, W., Lieutenant, 116, 117, 118

Brest, Attack on, 27

Brest Fleet, 129

Brett, Sir Piercey, 62

Brighton, 176

Brimstone Hill, 124, 199-204

Bristol “runners,” 38

“Britannia Victrix,” 272

Budge-Budge, Attack on, 89, 93, 94, 95, 99

Bullen, Captain, 277

Bussy, M., 79, 81

Byng, George, Lord Torrington, 29, 60

Byng, Hon. John, Admiral, 31, 129, 163, 164, 165, 168

Cadiz, 21, 27

Calcutta, 78, 79, 80, 88, 96, 102

Calcutta’s Council, 102, 104

Cannon-periers, 12

Cape Finisterre, 21

Cape St. Vincent, 134

Cape François, Battle off, 31, 34

Cape Trafalgar, 132

“Captain-General of the Ocean,” 22

Career of the _Britannia_, 273, 289

Carlyle, 30, 154

Casualty List of the _Victory_, 237

Celebration of Boscawen’s victory, 139

Chacon, General, 63

Chalmers, W., Master of the _Royal Sovereign_, 260

Chandernagore, 103, 104, 105, 106, 112-120, 121, 125

Charles I, King, 19, 48, 49

Charles II, King, 19, 48, 49

Charlotte, Queen, 19, 50

Chastillon, de, Captain, 137

Chatham Dockyard, 177, 179-85, 187-90

Chesterfield, Lord, 175

Cinque Ports Fleet, 57

Clarke, Lieutenant, 121

Clavell, Lieutenant, 194, 250, 253

Clive, 77, 78, 81, 83, 96, 97, 100, 104, 105, 106, 109, 115, 116,
118, 124

Clue, de la, French Admiral, 130, 131, 134, 136

Collingwood, 39, 40, 218, 248-71;
biography, 262;
G. L. Newnham, 248, 253;
wounded, 259

Commodore Trunnion, 65

Comparison between the _Dreadnought_ and _Victory_, 51

Conflans, de, French Admiral, 66, 143, 145, 153, 155, 158

Conn, Captain, 40

Cook, Captain, 19

Cooper, Commissioner, 181

Coote, Sir Eyre, 88, 90, 118

Copenhagen, Bombardment of, 62

Cornwall, Frederick, Captain, 165

Cornwallis, Hon. W., Captain, 196

Corbett, Secretary, 65

Corunna Expedition, 27

Cossimbazaar, 79, 103, 108

Cotes, Admiral, 31

“Counter-Armada,” 27

Counties represented at Trafalgar, 229-32, 235, 236, 267, 268, 284

“Counts of the Saxon shore,” 56

Court-martial on Admiral Byng, 163-5

Crew of the _Victory_ at Trafalgar, 228, 233

Crew of the _Téméraire_, 235-6

Crew of the _Royal Sovereign_, 268-9

Crew of the _Britannia_, 283, 284

Cromwell, 19, 48, 71

Crusaders at Lisbon, 57

Culverins, 12, 73

D’Aiguillon, Duc de, 148, 155

Death of Admiral Watson, 123

Defence of the French _Centaure_, 133-4

Delamotte, Mr., master of the _Kent_, 110

“Demi-Culverins,” 12-73

Deptford Dockyard, 6, 7, 11, 14, 18, 59

Designing the _Victory_, 182

De Spes, Spanish Ambassador, 4

Don John of Austria, 3

Donegal Bay, battle of, 210-12

Donegal peasants, 209

Dorset and Captain Hardy, 225-6

Dover, 56

Dover Road Postmasters, 70

Drake, Sir Francis, 19, 21, 22-7

Drake, Governor, 79, 80, 86, 88, 96

“_Dreadnought_ Seamen’s Hospital,” 41

Duckworth, Sir J., Admiral, 219

Dumb peal on Portsmouth bells, 178

Dum-Dum, 100

Dutch raid in the Medway, 166

“Eastern Parts,” 57

Edward VI, King, 48

Edward VII, King, 48

” ” and the _Dreadnought_, 48-50

Elizabeth, Queen, 1-5, 19, 48

England’s darkest hour, 34, 38

“English Lutheran days,” 22

“Espagnols-sur-Mer,” 59

Essex, Earl of, 27

Eton boat _Dreadnought_, 41

” _Victory_, 41

Eugene Aram, 177

Eustace, the Monk, 58

Evelyn, John, 19

Ewens, Captain, of the _Kent_, 69

Execution Deck, 179

“Fawcons,” 12

Fenner, Thomas, Captain, 21, 27

Figure head of the _Royal Sovereign_ at Trafalgar, 252

Fireships, 169

Fireships in the Hooghly, 96

Fitz-Stephen, 2, 52, 57

Fogg, Dick, Captain, 61

Fogg, Kit, Captain, 61

Forrest, Captain, 31, 32

Foreign men-of-war names translated, 127, 128

Foreigners in the British fleet at Trafalgar, 229-30, 235, 236, 269,
283

Fort d’Orleans, 107, 108, 112, 113, 115

Fortifications of Chandernagore, 109

Fort St. George, 78, 79

” St. David, 78, 81

” William, 80, 88, 97, 99, 102, 104, 105, 106

“Four Days’ Fight,” 28, 67-70

“Fowlers,” 12

Fraser, Brigadier, 199

Frederick the Great, 175

“Fresh Men,” 13

“Friend Murray,” 223

French troops at Quiberon, 148, 150

Frigate Bay, St. Kitts, 191, 193, 195, 203, 204, 207

Gardiner, Arthur, Captain, 168

Garrick, 176

Garrison of Chandernagore, 103, 109, 119

George I, King, 166

George III, King, 19, 48, 50

Gibraltar, 35, 65, 68, 130, 131, 168, 171, 215, 216

Gillingham (or Jillingham), Ordinary, 9, 20

“Golden Duke,” 22

Gonson, B., Treasurer, “Accompte of,” 9

Goongee, 98

Goschen, Lord, 53, 54

Grasse, de, French Admiral, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 198, 203,
204, 205, 207

Gravelines, Battle of, 27

Gravina, Spanish Admiral, 40

Green Point, St. Kitts, 198

Greenwich Hospital Mausoleum, 225

Greenwich Palace, 20

“Gromets,” 13

“Gunlayer’s test,” H.M.S. _Kent_, 75

Gunman, C., Captain, 61

Guns of the _Dreadnought_, 44-7

“Half Minute Council of War,” 31

Halloran, L. B., Lieutenant, Royal Navy, 278, etc.

Hamilton, W., Midshipman, 98

Hardy, Sir T. M., Captain, 34, 223-226

Harvey, John, Captain, 62, 63

Harvey, Henry, Captain, 63

Hastings, Kentish flag at, 50

Hawke, Lord, Admiral, 66, 141, 143, 144, 145, 153, 155, 158, 184

Hawkins, Sir John, 1, 14, 28

Hawley, General, 173

Henry VIII, King, 11, 19, 48

Herbert, Arthur (Lord Torrington), 61

Hervey, Lord, Captain, 61

Hey, Rawlins, Lieutenant, 109, 120

Highwaymen in 1760, 167

Hill, Sir G., 213, 214

Hogge, Ralphe, 12

Holwell, Mr. T., 86, 123

Home Fleet Review, 49

Hood, Sir Samuel, Admiral, 192-207

Hooghly, City, 98

Hooghly, River, 81, 82, 87, 88, 89

Horsham, 10, 180

Howard, Lord, Lord High Admiral, 24, 25, 26

Howe, Lord, Admiral, 50, 145, 146, 147

Huguenots, 2-3

Hubert de Burgh, 58

Hyderabad, 79, 81

Invasion of England, 37, 129, 174

“Iron Marquis,” The, 22

“Islands Voyage,” 27

Isle of Wight, 24

Ives, surgeon of the _Kent_, 80, 91, 92, 93, 98, 110, 111, 115, 119

“Jack the Painter,” 190

Jamaica, 16

James I, King, 19

James II, King, 19

James, Duke of York, 28, 70, 167

Jervis, Sir John (Earl St. Vincent), Admiral, 223

Johnson’s _Dictionary_, 175-6

“K” Brand, Dantzic, 181

“Kent claims the first blow,” 52, 57

Kent County Shield, 52, 55

“Kentish Menne in Front,” 52

“Kentish Rising,” 62

Kentish ragstone cannon-balls, 13

Kedgeree, 89

Keppel, Commodore, 150, 151

Kilpatrick, Major, 79, 88

Kinnoull, Lord, 139

King, Sir Richard, Captain, 97

Lagos Bay, Battle of, 136-9

Langdon, Captain, 31, 32

La Tour D’Auvergne, 148

Launch of the _Britannia_, 272

Launch of the first _Dreadnought_, 14-18

Launch of Collingwood’s _Dreadnought_, 38-9

Launch of H.M.S. _Kent_, 75

Launches, royal, 48

Lawson, M., 108

Legge, George, Lord Dartmouth, 61

Lepanto, Battle of, 4, 5

Letter from H.M.S. _Kent_, 68

Letter from a _Victory_ marine, 245-6

Letter to Suraj-w-daulah, 89

Letters from Collingwood’s flagship, 269-71

Letters from the _Britannia_, 275-81

Ligonier, Viscount, 175

Lloyd’s Policies, 37

Lock, Master-Shipwright, 182

Log of the _Britannia_ at Trafalgar, 274

Log of the _Victory_, 242-3

” _Warspite_, 137-8

Longsword, William, 58

Lord High Admiral, 15, 17, 18, 70

Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, 54

Louis XIV, 127

Louis XV and Quiberon, 156

Louisbourg, 167, 178

McCleverty, Captain, 131

Madras, 78, 81, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 100, 105, 106, 109, 110, 116,
118, 119, 122, 123

Mahan, 139

Maidstone, 13, 181

Maids of Kent, Flag from, 55

Malcolm, Sir John, 119

Malcolm, Sir Pulteney, Captain, 214-219

Malleson, Colonel, 119

Malmsey, 16

Manikchand, 87, 89, 90, 91

Marlborough, Duke of, 165, 178

Marshals in the French Navy, 43

Marshmen, 7

Mary Norwood’s Execution, 177

Mary Stuart, 5

“Maryners,” 13

Marston Moor, 28

Martin, Sir T. B., Admiral of the Fleet, 234, 264

Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, 1, 28

Mathews, Admiral, 84

Mayapore, 89

Medina Sidonia, 21, 23, 25, 26

“Mediterranean” Byng, 60

Men and Manners in 1758, 175-7

“Men of Kent and Kentish Men,” 52-5

Militia Camps, 37

Minden, 186

Minorca, 21, 86, 165, 168

Mir Jafier, 121, 122

Monument to Admiral Watson, 123, 124

“Moors,” 92

Moorshedabad, 87, 105

Morbihan, 142

“Mother of the Maids,” 20

Musée de Marine, 36

Murray, Geo., Captain, 223

Naming of the _Dreadnought_, 1, 4, 5, 14-18

Naming of the _Kent_, 71

” ” _Victory_, 184-6

Naval Estimates of 1759, 179, 182

Nawab, Vizier of Bengal, 79, 80, 87, 98, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106

Nelson, 30, 33, 163, 177, 222-4, 245, 246, 247, 256, 258, 290

Nelson and the _Victory_, 222-3

” Monument, Portsdown, 218

Nelson’s “Dreadnought” sword, 34

Nelson’s “happiest day,” 33, 34

Nile, battle of, 62

Newfoundland “disturbance,” 187, 188

Nevis, 195, 204, 205

North Cape, 6

North Devon, 6

North-East Monsoon, 85

North Foreland, Battle off, 58, 67

North Sea Packets, 38

Northesk, Earl of, Admiral, 272

Officers of the _Britannia_ at Trafalgar, 282-8

Officers of the _Royal Sovereign_ at Trafalgar, 266, 267

Officers of the _Victory_ at Trafalgar, 226, 228

“Old Dreadnought,” 30, 127, 136

“Old Ironsides,” 272

Old London Bridge, 176

“Old Pretender,” the, 175

Old Single Dock, Chatham, 182

Omichand, 121

Opdam, Dutch Admiral, 28

Order to build the _Victory_, 181-2

Order naming the _Donegal_, 213

Orme, Indian historian, 119

Party Politics and the Navy, 35, 125

Passaro, Cape, Battle of, 29

Peasants of the Weald, 180

Pepys, Samuel, 19

Perreau, S., Lieut., 120

Pett, Phineas, 17, 59, 60

Pett, Peter, 2, 6

Philip II, King of Spain, 22, 23

Pigott, Governor, 81

Pitt, Lord Chatham, 139, 178

Plan of attack at Chandernagore, 112-13

Plassey, the sailors’ part at, 121-2

Pocock, Sir G., Admiral, 82, 111, 120

Pompadour, Madame de, 143, 156

Porchester Castle, 171

Portisham, Hardy’s birthplace, 225

Portland Bill, 23

Porto Bello, 171

Portsmouth in the Seven Years’ War, 161-77

“Port-pieces,” 12

Port Royal, 31

Prescott, General, 199

Presentation to H.M.S. _Kent_, 52-5

Presentation to H.M.S. _Donegal_, 220-1

Press-gang, working of, 169, 170, 233, 234

“Prencipall Master,” 6, 15, 17

Puritan method of naming the Navy, 28, 71-3

Quebec, 186

Quiberon Bay, 66, 142, 144, 148, 154, 156

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 27

Recalde, J. M. de, 23

Refugees from Calcutta, 80, 81, 86, 88

Regiments named—
1st Royals, 199
13th Foot, 193
15th Foot, 199
28th Foot, 193
39th Foot, 81, 88, 90
69th Foot, 193
Royal Artillery, 199

Relics of the Trafalgar _Dreadnought_, 41

Renault de St. Germain (Governor of Chandernagore), 103

Rescue of Spaniards after Trafalgar, 217, 218

Rivalry between the _Victory_ and _Royal Sovereign_ at Trafalgar, 251

Rochelle Expedition, 28

Rochfort, 155

Rodney, Sir G., Admiral, 65, 192, 200, 201, 202, 207

Rodney’s report on the disaffection in the West Indies, 202-204

Rooke, Sir George, Admiral, 60, 165

Rotherham, E., Captain, 250, 251, 252

Rupert, Prince, 28, 68, 70, 117, 167

Ruyter de, Dutch Admiral, 28, 68, 117

“St. James’s Day Fight,” 28, 67

St. Vincent—Nelson in action, 34, 223

St. Lo, Commodore, 62

Sabran de, French Captain, 134

Sailor’s devotion at Collingwood’s funeral, 265

“Saker,” 17, 74

Santa Cruz, Marquis de, 22

Saxton, Sir C., Commissioner, 39

Ships of Kent, 57

Ships—
_Achates_, 6
_Achille_ (Fr.), 274, 276, 280
_Aid_ or _Ayde_, 3
_Aigle_ (Fr.), 282
_Alfred_, 194, 198
_America_, 136, 138
_Arethusa_, 66
_Ark Royal_, 24, 25, 26
_Augusta_, 31, 32, 33
_Asia_, 160
_Barfleur_, 192, 196, 206, 207
_Belleisle_, 251
_Berwick_, 282
_Blaze_, 83
_Bridgewater_, 82, 83, 89, 90, 96, 98, 106, 121
_Britannia_, 49, 60, 185, 272, 273, 274, 276, 278, 281, 282, 283,
284
_Brunswick_, 62, 63
_Bucentaure_ (Fr.), 275, 279
_Canada_, 196, 198
_Canterbury_, 64, 65
_Centaure_ (Fr.), 133, 134, 135
_Centurion_, 145
_Chatham_, 66
_Childers_, 227
_Commonwealth_, 162
_Conqueror_, 137, 275
_Cumberland_, 82, 83, 89, 105, 112, 125
_Deal Castle_, 67
_Defiance_, 4, 145
_Deptford_, 66
_Dieu Repulse_, 4
_Donegal_, 208, 214-20
_Dorsetshire_, 145
_Dover_, 65, 66
_Dragon_, 84
_Dreadnought_, 1, 4-9, 11-51, 72, 126, 140, 248
_Dunbar_, 72
_Dunkirk_, 72
_Edinburgh_, 31-33
_El Rayo_ (Sp.), 217, 218
_Elizabeth_, 233
_Elizabeth Jonas_, 3
_Eltham_, 67
_Entreprenante_ (Fr.), 128
_Essex_, 71, 151, 158
_Euryalus_, 215, 257
_Faversham_, 67
_Fidelle_ (Fr.), 128
_Fier_ (Fr.), 128
_Folkestone_, 67
_Formidable_, 141-3, 145, 148, 150, 151, 158
_Foudroyant_, 168, 169, 224
_Fougueux_ (Fr.), 252, 254, 255
_Gibraltar_, 130, 131
_Great Harry_, 60, 61
_Greenwich_, 66
_Greenwich_ (Fr.), 32
_Guernsey_, 138
_Guerrière_ (Fr.), 134, 135
_Hampshire_, 71
_Henry_, 72
_Hoche_ (Fr.), 211, 212, 213
_Impérial_ (Fr.), 218
_Implacable_, 239
_Indomptable_ (Fr.), 40, 254
_Indus II_, 140
_Intrépide_ (Fr.), 33, 82, 138, 282
_Invincible_, 190
_Jersey_, 137, 138
_Joli_ (Fr.), 128
_Jupiter_, 219
_Kent_, 52, 53, 55, 67, 75, 80, 82, 83, 85, 87-92, 94, 95, 98, 106,
107, 110, 112, 113-18, 120, 122, 124, 125, 128
_Kentish_, 71, 73, 74
_Kingfisher_, 80, 82, 88, 89, 96, 98, 106
_Leviathan_, 275
_Licorne_ (Fr.), 32
_Lion_, 24
_London_, 185
_Luxborough_ galley, 62
_Magnanime_, 145, 146, 147, 150
_Maidstone_, 66
_Margate_, 67
_Marston Moor_, 72
_Marlborough_, 89
_Mary Rose_, 11, 24, 26, 73
_Medway_, 67
_Meleager_, 224
_Minerve_, 224
_Montagu_, 128, 147, 150
_Modeste_ (Fr.), 134, 137, 139
_Monarque_, 163, 164
_Monmouth_, 168, 208
_Mutine_, 224
_Namur_, 134, 135
_Naseby_, 19, 72
_Neptune_, 275, 278, 279
_Newbury_, 72
_Nymphe_, 194
_Ocean_ (Fr.), 134, 136, 138
_Opiniâtre_ (Fr.), 32, 33
_Orphèe_ (Fr.), 169
_Outarde_ (Fr.), 32
_Prince of Wales_, 20
_Principe de Asturias_ (Sp.), 40
_Protector_, 88
_Prudent_, 192, 198
_Pluton_ (Fr.), 197
_Queen Charlotte_, 50
_Queen_, 166
_Queenborough_, 67
_Ramillies_, 63
_Redoutable_ (Fr.), 134, 136, 242, 246
_Renommée_ (Fr.), 65
_Resolution_, 72, 150, 151-3, 155, 198
_Revenge_, 3, 18, 23, 24, 26, 60, 72, 151, 165, 169
_Repulse_, 4
_Royal Anne_, 166, 185
_Royal Charles_, 70, 72, 166
_Royal George_, 152-4, 166, 167, 182, 185
_Royal Prince_, 167
_Royal Sovereign_, 40, 165, 166, 185, 242, 248, 250, 251-8, 260,
262, 266, 267-71, 275, 278, 279
_Royal William_, 167, 185
_Rochester_, 66
_Romney_, 66
_St. Albans_, 138, 197
_St. George_, 163-5, 224
_St. Vincent_, 160
_Salisbury_, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90, 96, 101, 107, 112, 113-15, 125
_Sandwich_, 65
_San Josef_ (Sp.), 34, 224
_San Juan Nepomuceno_ (Sp.), 40
_San Juan de Compostella_ (Sp.), 64
_San Justo_ (Sp.), 254
_San Leandro_ (Sp.), 254
_San Nicolas_ (Sp.), 34
_San Vincente_ (Sp.), 64
_Sans Pareil_ (Fr.), 128
_Santa Anna_ (Sp.), 23, 251-7, 259, 260, 279
_Santisima Trinidad_ (Sp.), 242, 279
_Sauvage_ (Fr.), 128
_Sceptre_ (Fr.), 32, 33
_Shannon_, 231
_Sheerness_, 67
_Soleil Royal_ (Fr.), 153, 155
_Solebay_, 195
_Souverain_ (Fr.), 134, 135
_Sovereign of the Seas_, 48, 60
_Superb_, 219
_Sussex_, 71
_Swallow_, 26
_Swiftsure_, 6, 11, 20, 21, 150, 151
_Téméraire_, 126-9, 131, 134, 135, 137, 139, 140, 146, 217, 235,
236, 250, 275
_Thesèe_ (Fr.), 151
_Thunder_, 90
_Torrington_, 28, 29, 72
_Tredagh_, 72
_Triumph_, 3, 36
_Turquoise_ (Fr.), 128
_Tyger_, 82, 83, 85, 88, 89, 90, 95-7, 107, 112, 113, 115, 118,
120, 125
_Vanguard_, 224
_Vengeur_ (Fr.), 62, 63
_Vernon_, 220
_Victory_, 3, 6, 18, 24, 26, 34, 43, 50, 51, 60, 126, 160, 163,
171, 175, 187, 189, 190, 217, 222, 223, 225, 226, 228, 229,
231, 232, 233, 235, 237, 241, 243, 245, 248, 250, 256, 257,
274, 275, 278, 279, 280, 284
_Ville de Paris_ (Fr.), 193, 196, 199, 207
_Warspite_, 137, 138, 146, 147, 150
_Weazle_, 215
_Woolwich_, 67
_Worcester_, 72
_York_, 92

Shirley, Governor, 199

Shoreditch, Midshipman, 122

Shot, Sussex iron, 12

Shovell, Sir Cloudesley, 65, 66, 167

Slade, Sir T., 182

Sluys, Battle of, 59

Smith, Sir Sidney, Admiral, 62

Smith, Collingwood’s valet, 249, 255

Soldiers at Portsmouth, 172, 173

Solebay, Battle of, 28, 29, 167

Spert, Sir Thomas, 61

Speke, Flag-Captain, 82, 87, 98, 114, 120

Speke, Midshipman, 114, 120

Spragge, Sir E., Admiral, 29

Standard at the Main, 49, 50

Standing Cup, 16

Stanhope, Countess, 55

Stanton, Lieutenant, 120

Strahan, of the _Kent_, 91, 93, 94, 95

Suckling, M., Captain, 30, 31, 32, 34

Suraj-u-daulah, 79, 80, 87, 89, 98, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106

Tagus, 5, 22

Tanna, Fort at, 95, 96

“Tars of the Tyne!” 267-8

Teneriffe, St. Cruz, etc., 62, 66

Terraneau, de, 111

Theatricals on board the _Britannia_, 284-9

Thackeray on Collingwood, 265-6

“The Wonderful Year,” 128, 186

Thierri, Pilot, 146

Thompson, Sir T. B., Captain, 62

Three sailors on a raft, 99

“Thunderbolt of War,” 22

Tilbury camp, 5

Timber for the _Victory_, 180-1

_Times_, origin of, 38

Tone, Wolfe, 210, 212, 213-14

Torbay, fortifications at, 37

Toulon Fleet, 130, 192

Toulon, 129, 130, 131

Tourville, 143

Tower Wharf “Bynns,” 13

Trafalgar, Battle of, 39, 41, 215-19, 222, 289

Treachery in the West Indies, 200-3

Trincomalee, 85

Trinidad, Capture of, 63

Turner, 140

Verger, Cte. de, French Admiral, 144, 146, 147, 157, 158

Vernon, Admiral, 171

Victoria, Queen, 49

Vigo Street, London, 165

Villeneuve, Admiral, 248, 252

Visits to the _Victory_ after Trafalgar, 245-7

Visit to the first _Dreadnought_, 9-14

Vizagapatam, 105

Volunteers on board the _Victory_, 233

Wager, Sir Charles, 30

Walpole, Horace, 136, 146, 151, 186

Walter, Mr. John, 38

Walton, Captain, 9, 30

“War of Jenkins’ Ear,” 29

Warren, Sir J. B., Admiral, 211-13

Watson, Charles, Admiral, 79, 83, 84, 86

Weald of Kent, 59

Wells, John, Midshipman, 276

“Western Ports,” 57

William III, King, 165, 166, 167

Wine Vaults of Corunna, 27

Wolfe, General, 167, 175

Woodcot, T., “Prest-master,” 8

A HISTORY OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE ROYAL NAVY AND OF MERCHANT SHIPPING IN RELATION TO THE NAVY

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BY M. OPPENHEIM

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