Discovered_, and Rattray, Thorndyke, Wilson, Hurst, Pitt, Austin,
Bidgood, and myself acted, the character of the High Priest of the
Sun being taken by Wichelo, and ladies by Midshipmen Pinett and Pyne,
Priestessess by Masters Shepherd, Bowden, Lever, Jones, etc. On the
playbill it was announced, ‘In the course of the Performance will be two
splendid Processions—a view of the Interior of the Temple of the Sun,
with a Grand Altar burning Incense, etc. Grand Hymn of the Priestesses,
etc. Towards the close of the Play the Destruction of the Temple by an
Earthquake accompanied by Thunder, Lightning, and Hail-Storm! with the
rescue of Cora from the Ruins by Alonzo!!
“_Catherine and Petruchio_ was the last performance, a few days before
the action of Trafalgar, together with a Play called _The Village_, which
I wrote.
“It was on the evening of the 19th of October—Saturday—while I was with
some officers in my cabin in the Gunroom, where we were preparing for
another Play for the following Monday, and we were rehearsing, when one
of the Midshipmen came to inform us that a Frigate was joining the Fleet,
with signals flying ‘That the Enemy were at sea.’ We immediately broke up
our theatrical conference. That night was partly passed in the bustle of
preparation, while we stood under easy sail towards Cadiz.”[21]
* * * * *
We have in addition the text of a prologue to one of the midshipmen’s
plays, presented before Lord Northesk and the officers. It gives one the
best possible idea of the magnificent self-confidence with which the
British Fleet anticipated the issue of Trafalgar.
ADDRESS.
[_Spoken on board his Majesty’s ship “Britannia,” off Cadiz._]
My Lord and Gentlemen,—Alas! off Cadiz,
How hard it is we can’t address the ladies,
For “if the brave alone deserve the fair,”
Britannia’s sons should surely have their share!
But, since their valour, tho’ upon record,
Like other merits, is its own reward,
Tho’ female charms inspire us not—again
We welcome you—my Lord and Gentlemen!
You, too, brave fellows! who the background tread,
Alike we welcome—jackets blue or red;
And humbly hope that while we give our aid
“To cheer the tedium of a dull blockade,”
To banish _ennui_ for a few short hours,
However feeble our theatric powers,
Our well-meant efforts to amuse awhile,
Will meet the wish’d reward—your fav’ring smile.
For tho’, while thro’ our parts we swell and pant,
We stun your ears with mock-heroic rant;
We trust “to pay their suff’rings through your eyes,”
By the bright splendours of the gay disguise
In which our heroes (nor let critics grin),
Bedight in robes of “bunting laced with tin,”
As kings or emperors, with mimic rage,
Strut their short hour upon this “floating stage.”
In times of yore, as grave old authors write,
Poets possess’d a kind of “second sight,”
And could (tho’, _entre nous_, ’twas all a hum)
Inform you clearly of “events to come.”
Oh! could the Bard, who, to amuse your time,
Has manufactur’d all this “doggerel rhyme,”
From mortal mists clear his desiring eyes,
And pry into your future destinies:
He would foretell (nor ask you, as a charm,
Like other soothsayers, “to cross his palm”)
What—yes, he sees!—must on your courage wait,
“An happy fortune, and a glorious fate!”
Yes!—he foresees—confirm his prospects, Heav’n,
“Yon coop’d up boasters,” to your wishes giv’n;
Sees their proud ensigns from their standards torn,
Their vanquish’d navies in glad triumph borne;
Sees added laurels grace our Nelson’s brow,
And Victory hovering o’er his glowing prow;
His conqu’ring banners o’er the waves unfurl’d,
And Britain’s thunder rule the wat’ry world.
If aught of prescience to the Muse belong,
Soon, soon, the scenes that animate her song,
In glowing colours shall salute your eyes,
And Heav’n shall bid th’ auspicious morn arise;
When France and Spain shall be again subdued,
And your “brave leader’s” victories renew’d.
Then, to reward your persevering toils,
With honours crown’d—enrich’d with hostile spoils—
(Her bravest sons—her guardian sailors’ friend)
“Your grateful country” shall her arms extend,
To greet your glad return with conscious pride,
And in her bosom bid your cares subside.
And, while our fam’d “Britannia” shall resort,
In awful grandeur to her wished-for port,
Her loveliest daughters shall with pleasure meet,
And bless “the heroes of the British fleet!”
Your wives, your children, and your friends shall come,
With tears of joy to bid you “welcome home.”
Nor storms nor battle more your bliss shall mar,
But “Peace and Plenty crown the toils of war!”
At this point we may fitly end the story of “Old Ironsides” at
Trafalgar—and this book.
FOOTNOTES
[1] See _post_; p. 65.
[2] Our West India possessions, except Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Lucia,
and Antigua were lost; and the four named were about to be attacked when
Rodney’s victory saved them. Demerara, our West African settlements,
Trincomalee and Ceylon, Minorca, and the American Colonies went also—all
because the Ministry of the day refused to keep the Fleet up to the “Two
Power standard” of those times, “superior to the combined forces of the
House of Bourbon,” _i.e._ France and Spain, who had the two next powerful
fleets after Great Britain. In cash, the war cost England £200,000,000.
[3] I am indebted to the courtesy of the proprietors of the _Graphic_ for
permission to reproduce the diagrams here given.
[4] The Kent Trophy Challenge Shield, of which an illustration is given,
is of silver. In the centre chief point appears a representation of
H.M.S. _Kent_, taken from a drawing supplied by the Admiralty. This is
embossed and oxydized. It is surmounted by an enamelled shield, bearing
the Arms of the Association of “Men of Kent and Kentish Men.” Underneath
the ship, entwined with branches of laurel, are scrolls to take the
names of the Officers Commanding. The lower part of shield shows the
arms and motto of the County of Kent, while turrets with protruding
guns form an artistic background. Below is a large ornamental tablet
displaying the presentation inscription, and round the edge of the
shield flows a beautifully modelled pattern of Kentish Hops, Cherries,
Oakleaves, and Cob-nuts, each spray of which is separately modelled and
bent into position, forming an excellent contrast with the white and
burnished groundwork shield. The whole is mounted on a stout polished-oak
shield, size 2 ft. 6 in. by 2 ft., and surrounded by thirty silver
wreath-medallions, to be inscribed each year with the name of the winning
gun-crew’s captain. The total weight of silver used is 146 ozs.
[5] A _Kent_ should have been with the two Kentish admirals Rooke and
Byng at the taking of Gibraltar. She was with the fleet, but during
the bombardment was stationed to keep watch off Cape de Gata, for the
possible appearance on the scene of the French Toulon Fleet, which
Rooke fought at Malaga, a month later. From on board the _Kent_, as
the officers’ journals describe, they heard the sound of Rooke’s guns
attacking Gibraltar, and uncertain whether the Toulon Fleet might not
have got round by hugging the African coast, and the firing be that of
the fleet in action with them, the _Kent_ turned back to Gibraltar,
arriving in time to witness the first hoisting of the British flag on the
fortress.
[6] The usual term with Europeans in the East at that time for the
“natives,” as we say nowadays.
[7] Nelson was forty-seven when he fell; three years older than Admiral
Watson was at his death. They were both also Vice-Admirals of the White.
[8] For a full account of the _Monmouth’s_ midnight battle and Captain
Gardiner’s fate, see “Famous Fighters of the Fleet,” pp. 16-35.
[9] Visitors to modern Southsea, going over what remains of the old keep
of Porchester Castle, will find scrawled all over the stonework of the
walls of the upper apartments many names of the French prisoners of this
time, with sometimes the names of their ships and the dates of their
capture added.
[10] A full narrative of the campaign and battle is given in “Famous
Fighters of the Fleet,” pp. 52-161.
[11] Mr. William Stuart, who died at Gortley, Letterkenny, in April,
1903, at the reputed age of one hundred and twenty, used often to relate
how he, as a boy, saw a British frigate arrive in Lough Swilly towing the
French captured flagship, and with Wolfe Tone among the prisoners.
[12] Incidentally, and to end the present story, it may be interesting
to recall to mind that the Marquess of Donegall is Hereditary Admiral
of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the United Kingdom. The office had
a real significance formerly, for Lough Neagh in the past, well within
historic times, had a fleet of its own. Sir John Clotworthy, the ancestor
of Viscount Massereene, who lived at Antrim Castle, had a patent for
building as many vessels as might be needed for the King’s service on
Lough Neagh. His fleet set out from Antrim Castle in 1642 to attack the
Irish in their fort at Charlemont. The battle between the fleet on the
lake and the land forces resulted in the defeat of the men on shore, with
their fort, and important consequences. The second Viscount Massereene
was as strong a supporter of William of Orange as his ancestor had been
of the Stuarts. He was made captain of Lough Neagh, and received 6s. 8d.
a day, being bound to build and maintain a gunboat on the lake. The Lough
Neagh Navy has disappeared, but the lake has still its admiral in the
Marquess of Donegall.
[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