Perkins, Robert, midshipman, his song, 104;
his joke, 105, 116
Peterson, Edmund, surgeon, 53
Peyton, Joseph, rear-admiral, 73, 90;
admiral, 203
Peyton, Joseph, lieutenant, 8
Phillimore, Sir John, captain, canes James, the author of the _Naval
History_, 131 _n._
Phillips, quartermaster, his cheese stolen by the raven, 89
Philpot, midshipman, goes to a concert, 69;
quarrels with Gardner, 74;
called ‘Toby Philpot,’ 92
Philps, William, gunner, 171
Phrases:
A dish of turnips, 43
A purser’s shirt in the rigging, 163
A tight hand of the watch, 65, 198
As if hell kicked us, 146
Bowed the sea, 186
Cross-jack brace eye, 107
Damn your eyes = cheer up, 174
Don’t come barking like a tanner’s dog, 212
Easier than knot a rope yarn, 185
I say, Mortimer, 51
Jib a third in, 186
Make a fellow jump where
there was no stile, 65
My hat’s off, 108
No lame duck on change, 235
Play hell and turn up Jack, 43 _n._, 65
Puddening the flats, 119
Serve out slops at the gangway, 111
Will you have your hammock up? 100
Pickering, Richard, clerk, 40
Pierce, James, captain of marines, 52
Piercy, Thomas, captain, 19;
ill health of, 21, 22;
taken prisoner, 38, 96
Pigs on board ship in action, 30
Pisa, carnival at, 140;
public buildings and pictures of, 140–1
Pitt, Thomas, midshipman, 153
Pole, Charles Morice, captain, 64
Poole, William, clerk, 171
Popham, Sir Home, 212
Porter, George, mate, 202
Portland Race, danger of, 189
Portlock, Nathaniel, lieutenant, an able navigator, 114
Potts, Henry, midshipman, 53
Poulden, Mr., 178–80
Poulden, Richard, captain, 178
Powell, Howell, assistant surgeon, drowned in the Babet, 12
Price, Mr., purser, his generosity, 21, 39
Pringle, William, midshipman, would do for a scuttle butt, 67;
visits sick messmate, 75;
‘Ponderous and Huge,’ 93 & _n._
Proby, William Allen, Lord, midshipman, 154
Proctor, Alexander, assistant surgeon, 63
Prowse, William, lieutenant, reprimanded, 107, 113
Purser’s eights, 52 _n._
Purvis, George, admiral’s secretary, 115
Pye, Sir Thomas, admiral, 10
Pye, William, schoolmaster, 45, 55, 120, 177
Quarrier, Daniel, assistant surgeon, 249
Quinton, John, mate, fond of gin grog, 61, 63
Rainier, Peter, admiral, 113
Ralfe, J., _Naval Biography_ by, 228 _n._
Ralph (1), a raven, taken for the Devil, 88–9
Ralph (2), a raven, a ‘most sagacious creature,’ 257–8
Raven, superstitious dread of a, 88–9, 257–8
Rayner, Edmund, midshipman, 125
Rea, captain of marines, 243;
his rhymes on Jamaica, 245, 248
Reardon, Andrew, assistant surgeon, sleeps in a cask, 48, 53
Reed, Davy, master, 89–91
Reeve, Samuel, captain, 22
Renwick, William, midshipman, 125
Resurgam Squadron, 145
Reynolds, Robert Carthew, captain, 99–100;
lost in the St. George, 113
Rice, James McPherson, midshipman, a ‘great mathematician,’ 123, 125
Rich, Sir Thomas, captain, 64
Richards, lieutenant, 199
Richards, John, lieutenant, promoted from before the mast, 115
Richardson, Henry, midshipman, 116
Richery, French admiral, his squadron, 185, 190
Rinaldini, capitano, famous bandit, 137
Rivers, William, gunner, 120, 176
Roberts, George, midshipman, 249
Robson, John, lieutenant of marines, 248
Roddam, midshipman, 116
Roddam, Robert, vice-admiral, 97, 107, 112
Rodney, Sir George, admiral, 12, 112, 182, 228
Rodney, the Hon. John, commodore, 156
Rogers, James, midshipman and mate, 115
Rolles, Robert, midshipman, 14
Rollin, Mr. A., secretary to the captain superintendent at Sheerness,
note by, 179
Rose, John, midshipman, 153
Roskruge, Francis, midshipman, killed at Trafalgar, 94
Roskruge, John, master, 91
Ross, James, midshipman, one-armed, 118
Ross, lieutenant, 86, 113
Russell, William Paddy, midshipman, 124
Russian soldiers, filthy habits of, 207
Rutherford, captain, 229
Sanders, James, midshipman, 93, 118;
commander, 230
Sandford, John, midshipman, 53
Sandwich, Lord, first lord of the admiralty, 3, 6
Saradine, Sol., 18
Sargent, Francis, mate, 92
Schomberg, Isaac, captain, superintendent of Sea Fencibles, 251
Schoolmasters, naval, 79 _n._
Scott, Alexander John, chaplain, left behind at Toulon, 150;
in Victory at Trafalgar, 152
Scott, John, clerk, killed at Trafalgar, 96
Scott, Samuel, master’s mate, a blustering bully, 53
Scovell, Richard, midshipman, killed in battle, 153
Scratch Alley, the boatswain of, 142
Scriven, Timothy, carpenter, 63
Seppings, John, midshipman, 125
Serocold, captain, death of, 147
Seymour, Lord Hugh, admiral, commanding Jamaica station, 236
Shield, Mr., clergyman at Stoke, 17
Shield, William, captain, 144, 151
Ships:—
Abergavenny, guard-ship, 227, 229
Admiral de Vries, a cooperage, 227, 229
Æolus, 41, 229
Agamemnon, 131–2
Alacrity, brig, capture of 151–2
Albion, 11
Alcide, 115, 131, 155
Alert, 155–6
Alexander, 157
Alfred, 184
Alkmaar, 206 and _n._
Ambuscade, 174
America, a hulk, 156, 227, 229
Andromeda, 65, 148
Apollo, 117, 200, 249
Aquilon, 139
Ardent, loss of, 147 and _n._
Artois, 33
Audacious, 229
Aurora, 54
Babet, loss of, 120
Barfleur, Gardner’s service in, 97–120;
splendid ship’s company, 100;
officers of, 112–120, 80, 83, 151, 170, 176–7, 226
Bedford, 11
Bellerophon, 113, 119, 229
Bellona, 119, 229, 232
Berwick, Gardner’s service in, 126–54;
sailed for the Mediterranean, 126;
bad weather and phenomenal rolling, 127;
at Toulon, 127–8;
detached to Tunis, 129–36;
puts into Trapani, 137;
and Leghorn, 139;
joins Hotham off Toulon, 143;
officers of, 151–4;
captured, 152–3, 104, 121, 162, 170, 205
Bienfaisant, 104
Blanche, loss of, 208
Blenheim, 33, 226
Blonde, Gardner’s service in, 203–25;
in very good order, 205;
in great danger from the pilots’ ignorance, 208–211;
comic incidents of, 212;
south-easterly blizzard off Guernsey, 220–21;
officers of, 224–5
Bonetta, sloop, loss of, 230
Boreas, Gardner borne in, 3–9;
aground, 6;
quarrel with Foudroyant, 7;
one of the first copper-bottomed ships (1775), 8;
officers of, 8, 9, 19, 64, 75, 90, 115
Bristol, 25
Britannia, 94, 145
Brunswick, Gardner’s service in, 226–49;
with Cornwallis, off Brest, 226, 234–236;
sent to Jamaica, 227, 237;
with Howe on 1 June, 236 _n._;
ship’s dog thrown overboard, 241–2;
thunderstorm, 246–7;
officers of, 247–9
Buffalo, 25, 27–9;
in the battle on the Dogger Bank, 103;
song on, 103–4
Caledonia, 79
Calypso, 230
Cambridge, court martial held on board of, 199
Captain, 227, 229, 234, 241
Carnatic, 227–8
Centaur, lost, 26, 79
Cerberus, 22
Colossus, 64, 113
Commerce de Marseilles, 155, 170, 172
Conflagration, fireship, 121
Conqueror, Gardner borne in, 10–14;
review at Spithead, 10;
sails for North America, 10;
‘a dreadful passage’ and very large sick list, 11;
officers of, 12–14, 3, 6, 19
Conquistador, 112, 214
Cornwall, 11
Countess of Scarborough, hired ship, 38
Crown, 22, 33, 64–5
Culloden, 11, 64
Cumberland, 82, 227–8
Dauphin Royal, Fr., renamed Sans Culotte, 145
Decade, 229
Defence, 229, 233
Dictator, 203
Dido, 229
Diligente, 24, 50
Dolphin, 104
Dordrecht, 203 _n._
Dromedary, 22
Druid, 229
Duke, 123
Dunkirk, 32
Duquesne, Fr., 130–31
Echo, 41
L’Éclair, Fr. corvette, capture of, 126
Edgar, Gardner’s service in, 64–96;
court martial on board of, 73–4;
officers of, 90–6; 29, 39, 45, 52, 97, 108, 112, 118, 124, 157,
229, 233
Elephant, 227–8, 232
Endymion, 72–3
Etna, 12
Europa, 205, 222
Euryalus, 202
Fame, 11
Favorite, Fr. privateer, captured, 188;
in Portland Race, 189;
luxuries on board of, 200
Formidable, 182, 228
Fortitude, 104, 143
Foudroyant, 7, 29, 62, 117, 136
Française, Fr., 230
Ganges, 227, 229
Glebb, Russian, 184
Glorieux, French prize, lost, 26
Goliath, 25, 30, 226, 228, 234, 239
Gorgon, Gardner’s service in, 155–71;
goes ‘bump on shore,’ 156;
‘a noble sea boat,’ 157;
nearly runs on Bolt Head, 158;
runs amok at Spithead, _ib._;
officers of, 170–1
Grafton, 11
Grampus, 51
Growler, brig, capture of, 95
Guadeloupe, 11
Hebe, 57, 65
Hector, French prize, lost, 26
Hector, guard-ship, 76
Hercules, Dutch prize, renamed Orestes, 56
Hercules, 80
Hermione, French prize, victualler, 22
Hermione recaptured, 176
Hind, 44, 176;
Gardner’s service in, 178–202;
captures smuggler, 181;
presses her crew, 181;
succession of gales, 182–185;
chased by Richery’s squadron, 185–7;
captures French privateer, 188;
officers put on shore in the mutiny, 192–3;
officers of, 201–2
Hindostan, store-ship, 229
Hope, transport, 37
Hope, 74
Illustrious, 131, 146
Impregnable, 14
Invincible, the old, lost on the Dean, 6;
the new, 11
Jamaica, 18
Janus, 233
Juno, frigate, 143
Languedoc, Fr., 74
Lark, 230
Lawrence, brig, 41
Leopard, 180
Leviathan, 78, 228
Lion, 62, 233
London, 12, 81;
mutiny at Spithead, 192
Lowestoft, 131
Lutine, 202;
loss of, 208
Macedonian, capture of, 95
Magnificent, 64
Majestic, 229
Marlborough, 8, 117
Mars, Dutch prize, renamed Pylades, 56
Mars, 5, 8
Medusa, 182, 192
Medway, 33
Melampus, 227, 229
Merlin, 41
Minerve, 66
Minotaur, 123, 125
Modeste, 155–6
Monmouth, 10, 136, 197, 243
Monsieur, 22–3
Montagu, 184
Naiad, 229
Namur, 197
Nassau, loss of, 213
Nemesis, 131
Néréide, 229
Orestes, a prize from the Dutch, 56;
Gardner’s service in, 56–63;
fire on board, 57;
loss of, 62;
officers of, 62–3
Orion, 229, 233
Overyssel, 203 _n._
Pallas, formerly Minerva, 213
Panther, Gardner’s service in, 19–40;
messing on board, 20–21;
makes three prizes, 22;
in a gale, 25–6;
at Gibraltar, 27;
off C. Spartel, 29–32;
regrets at paying off, 33;
mutinous spirit of men, 37;
officers of, 38–40, 179
Pearl, 155–6
Pégase, 80, 88
Pelican, 230
Penelope, 62
Phæton, courts martial on captain and officers of, 73–4 _n._
Pigmy, cutter, prize, 22
Powerful, 229, 232–3
Preston, 104, 147
Prince George, 10, 91, 188
Princess Amelia, song by a seaman of, 103–4
Princess Charlotte, accident at the launch of, 238–9
Princess Royal, 11–13, 80, 129, 213, 228, 247
Proselyte, court martial on master of, 41
Proserpine, capture of, 116
Pylades, 56
Quebec, 244
Queen, Gardner’s service in, 121–5;
officers of, 123–5, 82, 87
Queen Charlotte, 98
Raisonnable, 21, 29
Ramillies, 12, 13
Rattler, sloop, 94
Raven, 230
Recovery, 22
Renown, 74
Resolution, 229
Ripon, 22
Robust, 229
Romney, 102
Rose, transport, 37
Rover, sloop, lost, 8
Royal George, loss of, 23–4; 8, 52, 99
Royal Louis, Fr., 30
Royal Oak, 11
Royal Sovereign, 13
Royal William, 24, 29, 158
Ruby, 29, 151
Russell, 11
Sabina, Spanish frigate, 66
St. Fiorenzo, 155–6
St. George, loss of, 113, 129, 145
St. Michael, prize, 27
Salisbury, Gardner’s service in, 41–52;
Hell afloat, 41, 75;
dogs on board, 42;
fog off Newfoundland, 42;
in a gale, 43;
logged 296 k. in 24 hours, 43;
much bullying on board, 43–6;
feud with Grampus, 50, 51;
officers of, 52–5; 68, 114–116, 120, 175–7
Sandwich, 23
Sans Culotte, Fr., renamed l’Orient, 145
Sans Pareil, 114, 227–8
Santa Leocadia, 41
Saturn, 81
Scipio, 65
Solebay, 97
Solitaire, Fr., capture of, 151
Speedwell, smuggling lugger, capture of, 181
Speedy, brig, 131
Spencer, 228
Standard, 203
Stately, 99
Suffolk, 22
Sultan, 11
Superb, 38
Surveillante, Fr., 244
Temeraire, 228
Terpsichore, 116
Terrible, 145
Theseus, 229
Thisbe, 41, 229
Thorn, 41
Thunderer, lost, 50
Tonnant, Fr., 147 _n._
Topaze, heavy death-roll, 230; 155–6
Tremendous, 198
Trent, 196, 229
Trimmer, 65
Tromp, 206 _n._
Trusty, 242
Union, 29
Unité, 131
Valiant, 98, 148
Vanguard, 229
Vengeance, 25, 28–9, 227, 229–30, 233
Victory, lost on the Casquets, 100 _n._;
carries Howe’s flag, 25, 29;
Gardner’s service in, 172–6;
officers of, 176–7; 54, 66, 99, 126, 148, 152, 158
Vigilant, 22
Ville de Paris, lost, 26
Warrior, 229
Weasel, 191
Weymouth, store-ship, 206
William Tell, 62
Woolwich, store-ship, 171
Zealous, 229, 233
Shirley, lieutenant, 133–4, 136, 152
Shirt in the rigging, 163 and _n._
Shovell, Sir Clowdisley, his last moorings, 158
Shuldham, Lord, vice-admiral, 32
Silence in working ship, 108 & _n._
Silva, Emanuel, midshipman, 94, 118
Simmers, Mr., his dog, 5–6
Simmonds, Mr., formerly of the Panther, 179
Simmonds, Richard, lieutenant, ‘Gentleman Jack,’ 114
Simmonds, Samuel, midshipman, sees ghost, 36; 39
Simmonds, Richard, midshipman, 117, 177
Simonton, Robert, captain, 21, 28, 38
Skene, midshipman, 18
Skerret, Robert, midshipman, 40, 54
Skinner, Stephen, midshipman, 116
Skynner, Launcelot, captain, his ship lost, 208
Slade, James, midshipman, 93
Slops, list of, 46;
‘served out at the gangway,’ 111 _n._
Smith, Charles, gunner, 53
Smith, Sir Sidney, burns ships at Toulon, 145 _n._
Smith, Walter, lieutenant of marines, 13
Smock frock, mention of, 46 & _n._
Smollett, his monument, 143 _n._
Snow-eaters, 51
Soap-suds, a pedantic lieutenant so called, 109
Songs and Verses:—
Prologue, 1
To my veteran friends, 3
‘Don’t you see the ships a-coming?’ 16
Commodore Gale, 69
On asking for leave, 72
‘There’s nothing like grog,’ 77
‘When first they impressed me,’ 84
On washing the decks, 88
The battle on the Dogger Bank, 103–4
‘Billy the cook got drunk,’ 104
On General Dundas, 148
Bryan O’Lynn, 168–9
On two lubberly pilots, 211
On Fegan’s impressment, 214–15
A Baltimore wedding, 215–216
Eileen Aroon, 222
‘Jolly tars, have you heard the news?’ 235
‘On Newgate Steps,’ 242
On Venables and Penn, 245
Spence, David, midshipman, 95
Spencer, Earl of, first lord of the admiralty, 44, 174–6
Spicer, Robert, midshipman, 119
Stack, Thomas, his yarns, 50; 55
Stamp, mayor of Queensborough and pilot, 180
Stephens, George Hopewell, captain, 226–7, 229, 231, 233–4, 236, 243,
246–7
Sterne, his _Sentimental Journey_, 143 _n._
Stevens, midshipman, 61, 63;
complimented by Sir Roger Curtis, 61;
made a gunner, 63
Stevens, John, mate, 91
Stevenson, captain, keeps the Blue Peter flying, 222–3
Steward sewed up in a bullock’s hide, 135
Stewart, Charles, lieutenant, 151
Stiles, John, lieutenant, 45, 52, 68–9, 91
Stocker, Charles Maurice, lieutenant, killed in action, 114
Storace, musical composer, song by, 72
Strahan, Sir Richard, captures Dumanoir’s squadron, 201
Street, James, purser, 62
Strico, Anthony, his sign, 128
Sturges, Robert, midshipman, killed in action, 30;
his ghost walks, 36; 39
Suckling, William, 132 _n._
Sumner, Dr., headmaster of Harrow, his death, 259 _n._
Surgeon of Orestes violently mad, 57–8
Susan, Black-eyed, 36
Swanson, Jacob, gunner, 9
Swiney, Noel, midshipman, 125
Talbot, John, signal midshipman, K.C.B., 115
Tatham, midshipman, 116
Tause, Hector, gunner, 152
Taylor, surgeon in the navy, hanged, 18
Taylor, Andrew Bracey, lieutenant, 114
Taylor, James, midshipman, 39
Taylor, James, midshipman, afterwards pilot at Deal, 39
Taylor, R. A., midshipman, 249
Temperature at Jamaica, 231 _n._
Temple, Francis, midshipman, 117
Test Act, 178 _n._
Thomas, James, mate, 224
Thompson, Alexander, assistant surgeon, 40
Thompson, Andrew James, midshipman, 92
Thompson, Charles, captain, ‘gruff as the devil,’ 67;
his order as to dress, 68; 3, 7, 8, 64, 90, 115
Thompson, Edward, captain, poet, 51
Thompson, Lenox, mate, 8
Thompson, Norborne, midshipman, 55;
lieutenant, 115
Thompson, William, clerk, 125
Thornbrough, Edward, captain, 65
Thurot, his squadron captured, 112
Tidy, Thomas H., midshipman, 117
Tillman, acting lieutenant, 38
Tinling, Charles, midshipman, 124
Toby, Jonas, clerk, author of the plan of Trafalgar, 202
Tomlinson, clerk, 151;
misadventure on a donkey, 162
Towry, George Henry, captain, 145, 148, 151, 205
Trapani, historical associations of, 137;
the biter bit, 138;
mummied friars, 138–9
Tremlett, George, master, 52
Tremlett, George Neate, midshipman, 55
Tremlett, Richard Stiles, midshipman, killed in a duel, 55
Tresahar, John, midshipman, 95
Tripp, George, captain, court martial on, 213 and _n._
Trogoff, French admiral, 170 _n._
Trogoff, Madame, French admiral’s widow, 170
Trotter, Thomas, surgeon, author and poet, 91
Troughton, Ellis, lieutenant, 13
Tucker, John, purser, 224
Tucker, Robert, mate, 152
Tunis, the squadron at, 131–2;
Bey of, sends presents, 134–5
Turnips, dish of, 43 _n._
Twisden, John, midshipman, 95
Tyler, Charles, captain, 65, 229
Tyrwhitt, John, midshipman, Marshal at Gibraltar, 54
Urry, John, captain, his hospitality, 58
Vagg, Henry, surgeon’s mate, runs amok with the snuffers, 149; 154
Valobra, James, midshipman, encounter with Turks, 133;
at Leghorn, 139; 153
Vansittart, Henry, midshipman, 177
Venables, his capture of Jamaica, 245
Ventriloquist, tricks of a, 84–5
Verses—_see_ Songs
Vincent, Richard Budd, midshipman, 54;
lieutenant, 175–6
Vosper, William, Gardner’s schoolfellow, midshipman, 17, 72, 94, 142,
152
Waddle, coxswain, a noted boxer, 7
Waddle, J. H., writer, 249
Wade, John, master, 38
Wade, William, midshipman, 249
Wadeson, Richard, vicar of Fairlight, 259;
his high character, 260
Waghorn, Martin, captain, court martial on, 24 and _n._
Walker, captain, 229
Walker, James, captain, broke by court martial, 242;
reinstated, _ib._
Wall, William, lieutenant, court martial on, 73–4
Waller, Smithson, purser, 248
Wallis, surgeon, runs amok, 57–8; 63
Wallis, captain, 148, 155–6, 158–160, 168–70
Walsingham, commodore, lost in the Thunderer, 50
Wangford, George, midshipman and mate, 8;
death of, 75, 92
Wardrope, David, surgeon, court martial on, 73–4
Watson, boatswain, rope’s ends the schoolmaster, 77;
boatswain with Paul Jones, 96;
broke by court martial, 96
Watson, John, mate, 91
Watson, Thomas, a rugged-muzzled midshipman, 19–20;
a glorious noisy fellow, 39
Webb, Henry, master, his strange fancies, 216–17;
his adventure at Lisbon, 217;
chased by fishermen, 217–18;
his quarrel with the second lieutenant, 218, 224
Webb, Noah, lieutenant, 107
Weevil victualling yard, 107 _n._
Welland, Richard, lieutenant, 90
Weller, Hannah, supposed witch, 256–7
Whistler, Webster, rector of Hastings and New-Timber, 260;
a militant parson, 261–2
White, George, the purser, put on shore in the mutiny, 193; 201
White, Robert, surgeon, 13
Wilkie, John, master, court martial on, 73, 74
Wilkinson, John, lawyer, 18
Wilkinson, William, midshipman, 93
Willcocks, William, clerk, 55
William Henry, H.R.H. Prince (afterwards William IV.), captain 65;
visits the Barfleur, 98;
Duke of Clarence, 148
Williams, lieutenant, 13
Williams, William, lieutenant of marines, 8
Wills, Methuselah, master, anecdotes of, 237–8, 247–8
Wilson, Robert, midshipman, died of yellow fever, 249
Wilson, Thomas, surgeon’s mate, 9
Wiseman, William, gunner, 248
Wolfe, George, midshipman and mate, 176
Wolridge, captain, 174
Wolseley, William, captain, 131 _n._
Woodley, captain, 131
Wooldridge, William, midshipman, 124
Worrall, John, lieutenant, 224
Worsley, captain, 206
Yates, Thomas L., purser, puts the island of Pantalaria into
quarantine, 137;
at the carnival, 140; 152
Yelland, William, carpenter, 236, 248
Yetts, John, lieutenant, his strange dress and manners, 70;
his character, 71;
song on, 72;
hates the Barfleur, 85–6; 90
Yetts, Robert, midshipman, 94;
invalided, 151
Yorke, Sir Joseph, strings in his shoes, 108; 189
Young, Mrs., an infernal vixen, 161
Young, Mr., keeps an hotel at Cadiz, 161
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Footnote 1:
It is not out of place to mention here what we were told many years
ago by an officer of the Conway, that the late Professor Montague
Burrows, when a lieutenant of the Winchester, was initiated in the
mysteries of the Greek Grammar by the late Sir Anthony Hoskins, then a
cadet fresh from Westminster. Burrows afterwards took a first class in
classics at Oxford.
Footnote 2:
_D.N.B._—In 1780, commander-in-chief in the Channel; baronet in 1782.
Died in 1796.
Footnote 3:
Charnock, v. 350. Died in 1779.
Footnote 4:
It was then, and for many years afterwards, quite usual for a
youngster to be at school while his name was on the ship’s books.
When—as in this case—the boy was his father’s servant, he might be on
board while the ship was in a home port.
Footnote 5:
The heroine of a low-class chap-book, _The Adventures of Moll Swanson
of Portsmouth_, which may still occasionally be met with.
Footnote 6:
Born in 1720; died 1830. His portrait, painted shortly before his
death, is in the Painted Hall at Greenwich. See _post_, p. 213.
Footnote 7:
This was then usual. Probably the fate of the Ramillies had a good
deal to do with putting it out of fashion, as it certainly had with
forcing seamen to consider that there was a right and a wrong tack on
which to lie to; and may thus be said to have brought about the
discovery of the Law of Storms.
Footnote 8:
There is no reason to doubt the fact; but, in the absence of Christian
name and date, the court martial cannot be traced; nor can any man of
the name be found, as surgeon, in the pay-books of the Jamaica.
Footnote 9:
Large holystones, fitted with beckets, were drawn about by two men.
The smaller ones, used in the hand, were ‘hand organs.’
Footnote 10:
Coarse red wine of any country, but very commonly Spanish or
Portuguese.
Footnote 11:
The brass knockers, when met with, were probably trophies of a night’s
foray. Such things have been known within the memory of not-very-old
men.
Footnote 12:
Samuel Reeve died a vice-admiral, in 1802. Cf. _N.R.S._ xx. 111.
Footnote 13:
The names are filled in from Beatson.
Footnote 14:
_Sc._ the foot-rope.
Footnote 15:
Commander-in-Chief of the French fleet in the battle of the 12th
April.
Footnote 16:
The very persistent way in which this story of the loss of the Royal
George was spread abroad from the first, the entire suppression of the
evidence (on oath) to the contrary, as given at the court martial, and
the fact (here and elsewhere so strongly commented on) that care was
taken to prevent the success of the proposed attempts to raise her,
all point to one conclusion from which it is difficult to escape—the
conscious guilt of some high-placed and influential officials of the
Navy Board. Cf. _Naval Miscellany_ (_N.R.S._ xx.) p. 216; and _D.N.B._
_s.nn._ Durham, Sir Philip; Kempenfelt, Richard; Waghorn, Martin.
Footnote 17:
_Sc._ of France and Spain.
Footnote 18:
A ‘scuttle’ is defined by Falconer as ‘a small hatchway cut for some
particular purpose through a ship’s deck, or through the coverings of
the hatchways’; ‘scuttling’ is ‘the act of cutting large holes through
the bottom or sides of a ship.’ A ‘scuttle butt’ was a large cask,
whose bung-hole had been cut into a small scuttle, secured on the main
deck in some convenient place, to hold water for present use. It may
be well to say that ‘scuttles’ to light the orlop deck were quite
unknown till long after the great war.
Footnote 19:
October 11th. Cf. _N.R.S._ xx. 217 _seq._
Footnote 20:
So in MS.; but the word is ‘back-strapped,’ carried by the current to
the back of Gibraltar. The writing ‘black’ shows how entirely the
meaning of the term had been lost sight of. It is so with very many of
the old nautical expressions.
Footnote 21:
More commonly known as the ‘floating batteries.’ They were burnt.
Footnote 22:
Neither Marshall nor Gardner seems to have realised the utterly
worthless character of the scurrilous book referred to—_The Naval
Atalantis_, by ‘Nauticus Junior,’ said to have been Joseph Harris,
sometime secretary to Admiral Milbanke.
Footnote 23:
The pigsty, with its inmates, ‘under the forecastle,’ when going into
action, seems indeed ‘remarkable’ on board an English ship, even in
1782.
Footnote 24:
Sixteen years later, before the battle of the Nile, the live stock was
ruthlessly thrown overboard. Cf. _Log of the Zealous_ (_N.R.S._ xviii.
12).
Footnote 25:
The statement is curious, for instances of similar escape are by no
means rare. In the days of sailing ships there can have been few
officers of any seniority who had not known of at least one.
Footnote 26:
The obsolete gibberish seems worth preserving, if only as a parallel
to the still familiar ‘So she went into the garden, &c.,’ attributed
to Samuel Foote.
Footnote 27:
Now Devonport.
Footnote 28:
_Sc._ in nautical life.
Footnote 29:
_Cf._ Barrow, _Life of Earl Howe_, p. 165 _seq._; Schomberg, _Naval
Chronology_, ii. 131.
Footnote 30:
_Cf._ _post_, p. 43.
Footnote 31:
Elder brother of Sir Francis Samuel Drake, Bart., but himself neither
baronet nor knight; and a vice-admiral at his death in 1788.