INDEX
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Adair, C. H., rear-admiral, commanding the reserve in the Medway, 179
Adams, Buck, jail-keeper, 16
Adams, Francis, carpenter, 124
Alcot, John, captain’s clerk, 55
Alexander, Emperor of Russia, 101
Allardice, Titus, midshipman, died insane, 93; invalided home, 151
Allen, Henry, midshipman, 94; commander, hanged, ib.
Allen, Thomas, midshipman, put on shore in the mutiny, 193; drowned, 202
Anderson, Robert, surgeon of the Panther, 39
Anderson, Robert, surgeon of the Hind, ‘Benjamin Bullock the Madman,’ 194–5; 201
Anguin, Martin, seaman, falls from aloft, 32
Anstruther, Philip, midshipman, 119
Apple pies, assistant surgeon dines on, 223
Archbold, William, midshipman, 119
Archdale, G. J., midshipman, 249
Atkins, Robert, midshipman, 249
Augustus Frederick, Prince (Duke of Sussex), 139
Ayscough, captain 208
Back-strapped, 26 n.
Badcock, Benjamin, midshipman, drowned, 202
Baldwin, captain of marines, 115
Ball, A., captain, 192
Bantry Bay, expedition to, 188 n.
Barber, William, midshipman, 153
Barker, William, lieutenant of marines, 13
Barrett, John, midshipman, 123, 125
Barrington, the Hon. Samuel, admiral, 12, 98–9, 112
Barton, Sir John, treasurer of Queen’s household, 18
Bastia, siege and surrender of, due to seamen and marines, 148
Bates, alderman, of Waterford, 221
Bates, Gardner’s cousin, entertains the officers of the Blonde, 221
Batt, Henry, midshipman, 54
Batt, John, midshipman, 125
Bazely, John, port admiral in the Downs, 190
Bazely, John, captain, letter from, 191; put on shore in the mutiny, 193, 184, 190, 201, 203–4
Beauclerk, Lord Amelius, midshipman, 55, 116; captain, 131
Bedford, William, lieutenant, 91, 122–4
Beer, spruce, 42 and n.; man falls into copper of, 43
Belfry, Knight of the, 68 and n.
Bell, John, mate of the hold, is painted like an ancient Briton, 149, 153
Bennet, Charles, midshipman, 119
Berkeley, the Hon. G. C., captain, 22, 64
Bertie, Thomas, captain, 229, 232
Biggery, Robert, carpenter, 202
Bingham, Edward, midshipman, 17
Bingham, J., midshipman, 17
Bingham, Robert, chaplain, 17
Bisset, Charles, midshipman, his dog, 47, 53
Blackford, John, boatswain, 224
Blackford, William, 225
Black pieces = muskets, 150
Blake, John, midshipman, 14
Bligh, George Millar, lieutenant, 245, 247
Bligh, John, captain, 229
Bluet, George Rule, midshipman, curious love token, 92
Bone, Johnny, boatswain, devil of a fellow at cap-a-bar, 70–1, 96
Bonny Broom, her ghostly boatswain, 4
Boulogne, camp at, 253 n.
Bourmaster, John, captain, ‘an honour to the navy,’ 113; recommends Gardner, 121, 100, 110–11
Bowen, Griffith, lieutenant’s servant, 114
Bowen, Richard, signal midshipman, 116
Bowen, Thomas, lieutenant, 114
Bowler, William, surgeon, R.N., 18
Boyes, George T. H., vice-admiral, director of transports, 265
Boyles, C., captain, 227, 229
Boys boxing during battle, 31
Brace, Edward, midshipman, 95
Bradby, Borromy, midshipman, 54
Bradby, Daniel, rated as captain’s servant, 54
Bradby, James, captain, 41, 52
Bradby, Matthew Barton, captain’s servant, 54
Braham, singer, 182 n.
Brander, James, boatswain, 39
Brett, William, lieutenant, 170
Brice, lieutenant, court martial on, 213
Bricknell, midshipman, ugly and vain, 171
Bridport, Lord, admiral, 114, 188, 190–1
Bridsdale, Richard, lieutenant, 52
Briggs, lieutenant, encourages the seamen, 174 n.
Briggs, John, assistant surgeon, 154
Brine, Augustus, midshipman, 117
Brisbane, Charles, captain, 213, 228
Brock, Philip, midshipman, 54
Brooks, Francis, 38
Browell, Mr., 15
Brown, Maurice, midshipman, 92
Brown, Simeon, carpenter, 53
Brown, William, midshipman, 93
Browne, P., midshipman, 117
Bruce, John, midshipman, 117
Buchan, Charles, purser, his foraging expedition, 4–5, 8, 91
Buffalmaco, painter, fresco of The Last Judgment attributed to, 140
Bull, Mr., a man of colour, 232
Buller, John, midshipman, 118
Bullock, William, lieutenant, 151
Burdon, George, captain, 206
Bush, William, midshipman, 117
Bustard, Robert, mate, 115
Butcher, Samuel, midshipman, 124
Byron, the Hon. John, vice-admiral, 11–12
Cadiz, smuggling of dollars at, 160–1; the Alameda, 161
Calder, Mrs., fond of boat-sailing, 109
Calder, Robert, captain, his harshness, 97, 98; his civility, 99; a brave officer, 100; court martial on, 101; strict disciplinarian, 107; ship in high order, 108; his courtesy, 109, 113
Calvi, siege of, 147
Came, Charles, midshipman, 119
Campbell, Duncan, assistant surgeon, 96
Campbell, George, captain, 144–5; rear-admiral with Nelson off Toulon, 151, 228, 232
Campbell, John, vice-admiral, 41, 44, 52
Campbell, Luke, midshipman, does duty as schoolmaster, 39
Campbell, Majoribanks, midshipman, 54
Cannadey, Moses, midshipman, 124
Cap-a-bar, note on, 70
Carden, J. S., midshipman, 84; captain of the Macedonian, 95
Carpenter, James, lieutenant, 114
Carroll, assistant surgeon, 239
Carter, lieutenant, 41
Carter, Charles, lieutenant, 115
Carter, Richard, 18
Carthage, encounter with Turks at, 133; visit to ruins of, 133–4
Castlereagh, Lord, Lancers or Prancers of, 210
Caulfield, Edward, midshipman, 225
Chantrell, William, lieutenant, his night orders, 109; a droll fellow, 113; a narrow escape, 150–1; smuggles six hundred dollars, 160–1; settles a dispute at a dinner, 163–4, 167, 170
Chaplain’s bet, 111–12
Chatham, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, 80
Chatterton, midshipman, 119
Chest, John, midshipman, his chest, 120
Chissell, John, master, an accomplished linguist, 171
Chissell, Richard, midshipman, 171
Christian, Sir Hugh Cloberry, rear-admiral, 64, 184
Christian, Jonathan, midshipman, 116
Chubb, clerk, drowned, 202
Church, captain, 230
Clark, George, midshipman, 118
Clayton, captain, 174
Cock, carpenter, 31, 39
Cockerell, James, purser, 52
Coet, W., midshipman, 18
Coghlan, John Timothy, master, 183, 201; his boat-sailing, 195–6; death, 196
Cold, severe, 178–9 and n., 181, 220–21
Cole, Richard, midshipman, 94
Collier, John, midshipman, pious when drunk, 149; practical jokes on, 149, 153
Collins, Augustus, midshipman, son of Sir John, 153
Collins, Darby, drunken Irishman, his ingenious dog, 47; fights eleven men, 51
Collins, Sir John, captain of the Berwick, 121, 126, 130–1, 133, 139; dies, 144; respect shown by the seamen, 144; his knighthood, 151
Colomb, admiral, his account of the French expedition to Bantry Bay, 188 n.
Colours, wrong, hoisted, 189, 198
Colpoys, Sir John, vice-admiral, his flag struck by the mutineers, 192
Colquhoun, steward, sewn up in a bullock’s hide, 135
Connell, Thomas, lieutenant, 39
Conolly, John Bull, midshipman, 93, 118
Constable, Love, lieutenant, ‘a devil of a tyrant,’ 122, 124
Content, John, midshipman, 249
Cook, Hugh, midshipman, 95
Cooper, Robert, purser, 248
Cornwallis, the Hon. William, admiral, 226, 233–4
Correy, surgeon, 8
Cosby, P., vice-admiral, 155, 160
Courage, James, assistant surgeon, 171
Court, contempt of, 199 n.
Cowdray, John, carpenter, 7
Crisp, writer, 55
Crombey, assistant surgeon, 96
Cromwell, Oliver, 245
Crosbie, Robert, midshipman, 95
Crugal, Spirit of, 78 and n.
Crump, Mr., 162
Crump, William, signalman, believes in witchcraft, 256–7
Culmer, Billy, the oldest midshipman in the navy, 102; description of, 102; anecdotes of, 102–7, 115
Culverhouse, John, signal lieutenant, 66 and n.; as Diomede, 84; his song, ib.; captain, drowned, 91
Cumberland, the Duke of, admiral, visits the Barfleur, 98
Cunningham, Charles, captain, 131 and n.
Curry, Richard, midshipman, 119
Curtis, Sir Roger, anecdote of, 61
Daddi, Nardo, fresco by, 141 n.
Dalgleish, James, mate, 118
Dalston, Sir John, captain of marines, 13
Daniel, Robert Savage, lieutenant, killed at the battle of the Nile, 113, 115
Danton, Richard, midshipman, pilot, 39
Darby, H. D’E., captain, 228
Davis, John, quartermaster, afterwards midshipman, 125
Davis, mate, 93
Dawe, Harry, lieutenant, 91
Dawes, Richard, lieutenant, killed 1st June, 124
Dawson, George, captain, court martial on, 73–4
Dawson, Thomas, boatswain, 39
Deacon, Henry, lieutenant, 45–6, 52
Delafons, John, purser, 115
Delafons, John, midshipman, 119
Delafons, Thomas, midshipman, 119
Dempster, Walter, midshipman, 153
Derby, John, lieutenant, a droll fellow, 219–21, 224
Derby, John, cook, 219
Deserters attacked by wolves, 50
Dickinson, Francis, midshipman, 125
Dickinson, William, midshipman, 125
Dickson, Archibald, admiral, 226
Dixon, John W. T., midshipman, 117; captain, lost in the Apollo, 117
Dixon, Manley, captain, 56; his character, 60; commanded the Lion at the capture of the William Tell, 62
Dobbie, William Hugh, midshipman, 95
Dobree, Daniel, lieutenant, 114; captain, 203, 206, 209–12, 223–4
Dobree, Daniel, midshipman, 225
Dodgson, John, surgeon, 152
Dodwell, Brown, master’s mate, 53
Dogs, seventy-five, in the Salisbury, 42; anecdotes of, 47; dog thrown overboard, 241–2
Dolling, John, lieutenant, 98, 113
Doncaster, Charles, midshipman, died of yellow fever at Jamaica, 225
Dorrel, Richard, lieutenant, 38
Douglas, carpenter, 96
Douglas, the Hon. Dunbar, midshipman, wonderful escape of, 117
Douglas, J., captain, 22
Dowdall, Edward, gunner, 53
Downman, Hugh, midshipman, 94
Dowsing, Jackson, lieutenant, 114
Drake, Sir Francis, taught the people of Plymouth, 7
Drake, Sir Francis Samuel, 38 n.
Drake, Sir Francis William, vice-admiral, 22, 38 and n.
Dubosc, French emigrant captain, 168
Ducker, John, boatswain, 164–5, 171
Ducks, attack on, 110–11
Duckworth, Sir John Thomas, rear-admiral, 228, 230–1, 237
Duff, Andrew, midshipman, 55
Duff, captain, 229
Duncan, Charles, master, 151–2
Duncan, Lord, 71
Dundas, captain, 229
Dundas, general, at Bastia, 148
Dunham, Robert, lieutenant, broke and reinstated, 202
Dunn, Richard D., captain, 228
Durban, William, midshipman, 118
Durham, Philip Charles, lieutenant, 25 n., 114
Dusautoy, lieutenant of marines, 62
Dutchman, cargo of runaway, 208
Eastwood, N. H., captain, chased by Billy Culmer, 102–3
Eaton, Jack, mate, 117; cheers up Gardner at his examination, 173; captain of Marlborough, 117; committed suicide, 117; captain of Medusa, 191
Edgar, Alexander, captain, 41
Edgar, Thomas, lieutenant, in charge of a merchantman, 159–60; had sailed round the world with Cook, 163, 167–70
Edgeworth, Henry, mate, 248
Edmonds, Tom, midshipman, a delightful flute-player, 92
Elliot, John, vice-admiral, 99; his able services, 112
Elliot, Robert, midshipman, 93
Elliot, William, midshipman, 55; lieutenant, 114
Elliot, William, midshipman, 248
Esperanto, early example of, 128
Essington, captain, 227–8
Everitt, afterwards Calmady, Charles Holmes, lieutenant, 8
Eyles, C., captain, 228
Fairlight, signal station, 109, 251–63; duties at, 253; severe gales, 254; cockney’s visit to, 255–6; smugglers, 258–9; Gardner’s friends there, 259 seq.; paid off, 263
Fanshawe, Robert, commissioner at Plymouth, 197–8
Faulknor, Jonathan, rear-admiral, 100; most able officer, 113
Faulknor, Jonathan, jun., captain, 41, 188
Faulknor, Samuel, captain, note on, 100
Feary, Frank, midshipman, 92
Fegan, sent on board the Conquistador by the Bow Street magistrate, 112, 214; song by 214–15
Field, Augustus John, lieutenant of marines, draws a long bow, 244; dines off rat pie, 245, 248
Fielding, Henry, novelist, 215 n.
Fielding, Sir John, the blind magistrate, 214–15 n.
Finch, the Hon. Seymour, captain, 22
Fireworks, manufacture of, in front of a fire, 198
Flag, insult to the English, 131
Flanagan, clerk (afterwards purser), 40
Flemming, boatswain, broke by court martial, 202
Flinders, mate, well acquainted with ancient history, 123
Flood, Patrick, midshipman, reads the Bible, 75; draws caricatures, 79; is ruined by Molloy, 80; verse by, 88, 92
Floyd, Thomas, lieutenant, 13
Flying Dutchman has a roving commission, 199
Foley, T., captain, 229
Follie, John, boatswain, 248
Foote, John Stode, chaplain, 14
Foote, Samuel, actor, 34 n.
Forrester, Ben, captain of marines, 30, 31, 38
Forster, Edward, midshipman, a Hercules, 39
Forton prison, Frenchmen sent to, 16
Foularton, Henry, midshipman, his keg of gin, 94
Foularton, John, midshipman, court martial on, 32, 39
Fraser, Alexander, lieutenant (afterwards admiral), 31, 38
Fraser, James, gunner, 39
Frederick, T. L., captain, 131
Freeburn, Archibald, gunner, 202
Fremantle, captain, 227, 229
French officers, prisoners on board La Favorite, 200; claim their rank in the navy, ib.; claim refused, ib.; sent to Mill Prison, ib.; Gardner’s generosity to, 201
French prisoners, threatened rising of, 159; left at Gibraltar, 170
French Royalists on board Gorgon, 170
French seamanship, an instance of good, 186
Frost, ‘Hard Frost,’ midshipman, is ‘laid out,’ 87; a ‘transcendent blackguard,’ 88, 94
Fuller, William, surgeon, 243, 248
Gale, legendary commodore, 69, 87
Galloway, James, midshipman, 153
Galton, midshipman, 116
Gardner, Alan, rear-admiral, 121; his service, 123
Gardner, the Hon. A. H., captain, 229
Gardner, wrote in the office: no relation of the author, 96
Gardner, Francis Geary, captain, 3, 8, 10–13, 19
Gardner, James, captain, 37
Gardner, Mrs. James, death of, 37
Gardner, James Anthony, his early recollections on board the Boreas, 3–7; and on board the Conqueror, 10–12; at school, 15–17; joins the Panther, 19; his introduction to his mess, 20; is assisted by the purser, 21; assists in saving men of the Royal George, 24; is in the action off Cape Spartel, 30 seq.; attends his grandmother’s funeral, 37; joins the Salisbury, 41; is mast-headed, 45; the captain refuses to advance him any money, 49; joins the Orestes, 56; unjustly blamed for letting a seaman desert, 58–60; knocks a messmate down with a Bible, 60; joins the Edgar, 64; goes to a concert, 69; and afterwards to his hammock, ib.; his leave is stopped, 70; gives himself leave and meets the first lieutenant on shore, 71; stews a beef-steak in a lantern, 72; fights with Philpot, 74; fires a musket in a messmate’s face, 83; gets a severe blow on the nose, 83–4; sent to answer a signal when improperly dressed, 85; is sent back with ‘an insolent message,’ 86; catches the flagship ‘napping,’ 86–7; joins the Barfleur, 97; offends the captain, ib.; who stops his leave, 98; but parts with him on good terms, 99; joins the Queen, 121; objects to go to the West Indies, ib.; and joins the Berwick, 126; his adventure at Tunis, 132–3; visits the ruins of Carthage, 134; visits the arsenal at Porto Farino, 136; takes part in the carnival at Pisa, 140; a night’s adventure, 142–3; refuses Hood’s offer to appoint him to the Victory, 148; and joins the Gorgon, ib., 155; dines at an ordinary at Lisbon, 163; dispute between the English and Yankee skippers, ib.; joins the Victory, 172; loses his kit, 173; passes his examination, 174; is promoted to be lieutenant, 175; of the Hind, 176; joins the Hind, 178; in deep snow and hard frost, 178–9; his dinner at King’s Ferry, 179; walks across the ferry, 180; sells his share of prize money, 181; put on board La Favorite as prize master, 188; gets into Portland Race, 189; and is in considerable danger, ib.; is kindly received by Sir Richard King, 190; writes to Admiral Bazely, ib.; is put on shore from Spithead in the mutiny, 193; his interview with Commissioner Fanshawe, 197; his generosity to the French prisoners, 201; joins the Blonde, 203; is complimented on her good order, 204–5; his method of beautifying the ship, 205; remonstrates with the pilots, 209; apostrophises them in verse, 211; is knocked down by a lump of ice falling out of the mizen top, 220; pleasant time at Waterford, 221; joins the Brunswick, 226; does not like the West Indies, 231; his difficulty in reaching the ship off Brest, 240; in the transport service, 250; appointed to Fairlight signal station, 251; his life there, 252 seq.
Garlies, Lord, a lord of the admiralty, 251
Garnier, Charles, midshipman, drowned, 54
Garrett, William, midshipman, 54
Geary, Sir Francis, admiral, 3
George III. reviews the fleet, 10
George, Sir Rupert, first commissioner of transports, 250 n.
Gibbon, Francis, midshipman, 55; lieutenant, 252
Gibson, Patrick, purser and centenarian, 12, 213; was at the taking of Quebec, 214; his songs, 214–16
Gibson, William, lieutenant, broke by court martial, 224
Gilmour, Alexander, midshipman, 63
Glebhoff, Peter, Russian captain, killed at Texel, 207
Glover, captain, death of, 233–4
Goddard, Thomas, midshipman, wounded at Toulon, 116
Goodall, admiral, 148
Gordon, George, assistant surgeon, 96
Gosport, naval academy at, 15
Gosselin, Thomas Le M., captain, 227, 229
Gould, D., captain, 229
Gould, Michael, clerk, 249
Gould, William, lieutenant of marines, 52
Gower, the Hon. John Leveson, rear-admiral, 64; a ‘tight hand of the watch,’ 65; used to ‘play hell and turn up Jack,’ ib.; to get up early, 65–6; an able tactician, 67; had an astonishing memory, ib.; hated puppyism, ib.; 90
Graham, Aaron, admiral’s secretary, 45; afterwards magistrate at Bow Street, 53
Granger, William, midshipman, 94
Grant, Charles, midshipman, 118
Grant, George, secretary and purser, 124
Grant, Gregory, midshipman, 94
Grasse, Count de, French commander-in-chief, prisoner, 23
Graves, John, midshipman, at Leghorn, 139; posse of friars, 141; his afternoon nap disturbed, 149–50, 153
Graves, Lord Thomas, admiral, 10–13
Gray, George, gunner, 96
Greene, Pitt Burnaby, midshipman, 116
Grey, George, gunner, 70
Grey, George, lieutenant, 113
Grindall, Richard, captain, 228
Grouchy, French general, in Bantry Bay, 188
Guichen, Count de, French admiral, 16
Gullet, Christopher, midshipman, 63
Gunter, captain, 180
Hacker, Jerry, the purser, messed by himself, 165; a miser, 166; detests midshipmen, 166–7; curses the peas, 168; a most unaccountable fellow, 171
Hall, James, boatswain, 53
Hallowell, afterwards Carew, Benjamin, lieutenant, 113
Hamilton, Sir C., captain, 156
Hamilton, Edward, lieutenant, 172–3, 175; captain, recaptured the Hermione, 176
Hamlin, midshipman, 63
Hamlin, D., midshipman, 63
Hamond, G. E., midshipman, 177
Hancock, Richard Turner, signal midshipman, 116
Hand organs, 20 n., 88
Handkerchiefs, black silk, worn by seamen, 130 n., 144
Hanwell, lieutenant, 32
Hardy, James, captain, inspects and praises the Blonde, 204–5; sends her some buckets of paint, 205
Harley, Henry Roland, clerk, 55; purser, 194–5
Harmood, Harry, captain, 11, 13; commissioner, 174
Harrison, Mr., private secretary to Lord Spencer, 176
Harrison, John, gunner, 224
Harrison, William, mate, 248
Hartley, Martin Pert, midshipman, 40
Hastings, points of interest near, 254–5
Hawford, Richard, lieutenant, lost in the Rover, 8
Hearle, Benjamin, carpenter, 14
Hell-fire club, 44; members’ dress, 48–9 and n.
Hemmings, Mr., master attendant at Plymouth, 191
Henikoff, Russian admiral, 184, 207
Herbert, Richard, midshipman, 53
Hervey, John, midshipman, 117
Hervey, Lady, pelted with sugar plums, 140
Hervey, Lord, ambassador, pelted with sugar plums, 140
Hewlett, Thomas, midshipman, 153
Heycock, Richard, midshipman, 94, 118; refuses to pay mess fines, 108
Hickey, Frederick, lieutenant, sells his prize money, 181; put on shore in the mutiny, 193, 201
Hill, John, boatswain, 63
Hinton, John, midshipman, 116
Hinton, Martin, lieutenant, 176
Hodges, John, midshipman, died of yellow fever, 249
Hodgskin, John A., midshipman, 125
Holland, John Wentworth, midshipman, 54
Hollingsworth, John, midshipman, killed in battle, 95 n.
Holloway, John, rear-admiral, memoir of, criticised, 27–8, 226, 247
Holmes, midshipman, is ‘caught napping,’ 86–7
Holmes, James, lieutenant of marines, 248
Home, Sir George, captain, 22
Hood, Lord, admiral, commands the Russian armament, 99; sails for the Mediterranean, 126; Toulon fleet surrenders to, 128; chases the French fleet into Gourjean Bay, 146; siege of Bastia, 148, 145 n., 172, 176
Hoops, iron, taken on board, 230; not worth their carriage, 231
Hope, Robert, surgeon, 124
Horsley, Richard, midshipman, 249
Hotham, William (afterwards Lord), vice-admiral, 126, 143; misses a great opportunity, 145–7; an able second in command, 147–8
Houghton, Charles, midshipman, 225
Houghton, Daniel, major, the African traveller, 225
Houghton, Frederick, midshipman, drowned, 225
Howe, Lord, admiral, 21, 25; aspersions on, 28; action off Cape Spartel, 29–33; hoists the union flag, 98 n., 80 n., 99, 100
Huish, Robert, purser, his terror in a boat, 219–20, 224
Humphries, Christopher, boatswain, 202
Hungerford, Emanuel, lieutenant, an amusing fellow, 238; strikes his former captain, 242; a very able officer, 243, 247
Hunt, Peter, midshipman, a droll fellow, 125
Hutchins, Henry, purser, 13
Hutchinson, Edward, mate, 152
Hutt, John, captain, 121; an excellent sailor, 122; killed on 1st of June, 124
Ince, midshipman, 55
Incledon, Charles, the singer, 182 and n.
Inglis, Charles, midshipman, 92, 118; captain, 229
Ireland, rebellion in, 204
Ireland, Thomas, lieutenant, killed on 1st of June, 115
Ireland, William, gunner, 124
Irwin, John, lieutenant, 91 n.
Irwin, J. S., midshipman, 95, 114
Jacks, Davy, quartermaster, 72
Jackson, midshipman, 118
James, Edwin, lieutenant, 212, 224
James, William, author of the Naval History, a Yankee-Doodle, 131 n., 147, 152, 155 n.
Jeffrey, Ben, clerk, 98, 120
Jeffreys, Ninian, master, 115
Jeffries, boatswain, 120
Jennings, Ulick, midshipman, 160, 163; commander, broke by court martial, 171
Jervis, Sir John, rear-admiral, 98–9; Earl of St. Vincent, admiral of the fleet, 112, 117
Jeynes, Thomas, lieutenant, a tyrant, a cold-blooded bad fellow, 58–62
Jezard, James, carpenter, 71
Johnstone, George, midshipman, murdered, 119
Johnstone, Jemmy, midshipman, 118
Jones, purser, 232
Jones, George, midshipman, called ‘Dog-head,’ 92, 118
Jones, Paul, captain, U.S.N., 38
Josephine, Empress, 101
Jump, lieutenant, agent of transports, 250
Katon, James, captain, 227–8
Kein, Thomas, assistant surgeon, 91
Kelloch, James, boatswain, 124
Kemble, Joseph, boatswain, 152
Kemp, Nicholas, lieutenant, 114
Kempenfelt, rear-admiral, an able tactician, 16; lost in the Royal George, 23, 24
Keppel, the Hon. Augustus (afterwards Lord), admiral, 10, 11
Key, John, midshipman, 118; lieutenant, unfit to be first, 226; sent to hospital, 239; refused a passage home, ib. and n.; his manner of keeping watch, 240, 244, 247
Kiel, John, midshipman, went on shore without leave, 71; off deck in his watch, 72–3; ‘troubled with St. Anthony’s fire,’ 83; died mad, 93
King, Sir Richard, port admiral at Plymouth, 190; approves of Gardner’s conduct, 190
King, Solomon, midshipman, 93, 118
King, William, midshipman, 93
Kinneer, James Jervis, midshipman, sent on shore in the mutiny, 193; drowned, 202
Kirk, Daniel, midshipman, 116
Kirk, James, surgeon, 115
Kitten, William, 18
Kleber, French general, 261
Knight, captain in the army, killed in battle, 208
Knight, John, captain, 172–3, 175–6
Laforey, Sir Francis, captain, 229, 232–3
Lamb, William, midshipman and mate, 92, 118; captain, 174
Lambrick, John, midshipman, 154
Lamotte-Picquet, French admiral, 233
Land, Hugh, clerk, 63
Landseer, Thomas, admiral’s servant, 55
Langara, Don Juan de, Spanish admiral, defeat of, 112; off Minorca, 126; at Toulon, 128
Laugharne, John, lieutenant, 8
Launder, William, midshipman, killed at the battle of the Nile, 119
Laurie, midshipman, murdered, 119
Laurie, Robert, midshipman (afterwards admiral), 53; lieutenant, 121; wounded on 1st June, 124
Lawrence, John, midshipman, 153
Le Bair, Nicholas, midshipman, died in French prison, 153
Lechmere, captain, 41
Le Clerc, Madame, sister of Napoleon, wife of commander-in-chief at St. Domingo, 230
Lee, Francis Geary Gardner, midshipman (afterwards knighted), 202
Lee, Paddy, lieutenant, 113
Lee, Richard, captain of Hind, 178, 180; speculates in prize money, 181; a most meritorious officer, 182, 183, 195–6, 201
Leghorn, carnival at, 139; convivial dinner at, 142
Lemon, John [or Lamond], midshipman, 249
Leonard, midshipman, triced up to the main topmast head, 81
Levy, Titus, purser, died mad, 91
Lewis, captain, 191
Liggatt, John, assistant surgeon, 96
Linzee, Samuel Hood, captain, 229, 233
Linzee, commodore, at Cagliari, 129; at Tunis, 131
Liquor smuggled on board, 60, 69
Littlehales, R. B., midshipman, 54
Lloyd, Robert, lieutenant, 100, 114
Loring, captain, 229
Loring, Joseph, lieutenant, 52
Lowe, Thomas, lieutenant, 247
Lucas, John, lieutenant, court martial on, 73, 74
Lumsdale, J., captain, 41
Lutwidge, Skeffington, captain, 65
Lyford, Henry J., lieutenant, 224, 232
Lyne, Thomas, lieutenant, 170
McArthur, John, secretary, 148, 176
Macarthy, quartermaster, anecdote of man overboard, 199
Macbride, Andrew, schoolmaster, given to drink, 76; his extreme ugliness, 76–7; song on, 77–8; died at Jamaica, 78; an excellent mathematician, ib.; and writer, 79; caricature of, ib.; splendid abilities, 95
Macbride, John, admiral, 56, 82
McCarthy, a deserter, 58
McCulloch, William, midshipman, 154
McCurdy, John, assistant surgeon, 53
McDonald, John, mate, 119
Macfarland, J. S., midshipman, 54
McInerheny, Mr., master, 12, 13
McInerheny, William, 13
Mackenzie, Alexander, midshipman, a sneak, 153
Mackey, lieutenant, 114
McKinlay, George, captain, 230
McKinnon, Peter, gunner, his sore eyes, 61, 63
Maclean, Hector, lieutenant, 236, 247
Maclean, Lauchlin, clerk, 96
Macredie, John, midshipman, his song, 77–8; a great deal of service, 80; an excellent scholar, ib.; very absent-minded, 81; as Ajax Telamon, 84, 93; his story of the raven, 88; a most worthy fellow, 95; in the Barfleur, 118
Malcolm, James, surgeon, 39, 91
Manning, Robert, midshipman, 54
Marr, Jacky, boatswain, 120, 176
Marriott, Mr., assistant secretary, Royal Meteorological Society, note by, 179
Marsh, assistant surgeon, 96
Marsh, Edward, lieutenant, 114
Marshall, Andrew, assistant surgeon, 249
Marshall, John, lieutenant, author of the Royal Naval Biography, 27–9
Marshall, Sir Samuel, deputy comptroller of the navy, 174
Martin, Sir Henry, comptroller of the navy, 97
Martin, Thomas Byam, midshipman, 117; captain, 156
Mathews, John, lieutenant, 113
Matthews, Robert B., midshipman, 249
Maundrell, midshipman, 63
Meager, Nicholas, midshipman, 123, 125
Mears, Thomas, gunner, 14
Medley, Edward, midshipman, 248
Mends, captain, 229
Merchant, Thomas, midshipman, 54
Merrett, John, surgeon, 17
Mess, ‘Spartan simplicity’ of the, 20; contrasted with later luxury, 21
Milbanke, Mark, vice-admiral, 33, 38
Miles, Lawford, lieutenant of marines, 176
Millar, midshipman, his ugliness, 76–7; made a gunner, 94
Miller, John, lieutenant, 124
Milligan, James, surgeon, 224
Milner, George, midshipman, 122–3, 125
Molloy, A. J. P., captain, his tyranny, 80, 90
Monkeys, crew of an African ship lived on, 42; monkey soup, 51
Monkton, John, mate, 8
Montagu, lieutenant, 25, 38
Montagu, Robert rear-admiral, 227–8, 237
Moore, Edward, mate, his practical joke, 76; opposed to tyranny, 81; court martial on, 82; his generosity, 83; highly respected, 92, 118
Moore, James, gunner, 202
Morgan, lieutenant, his ugliness, 76–7
Morgan, Ben, midshipman, victim of bullying, 44; his extravagance, 49, 54
Morgan, Ross, lieutenant of marines, becomes insane, 243–4, 248
Morgan, William, chaplain, 115
Morris, H. G., midshipman, 125
Morris, James Nicholl, lieutenant, at Trafalgar, 113
Mortella tower, 143–4 and n.
Morton, lieutenant, 118
Mottley, Samuel, lieutenant, 115
Moulding, Joe, his catechism, 34
Mounsey, William, midshipman, 63
Mulligan, a seaman, flogged for cowardice, 32
Murray, James, lieutenant, 38
Mustapha, suspected of being English, 137
Mutiny at Spithead (1797), 192–3
Myers, Philip, carpenter, 152
Napoleon, his three great errors, 101; his sister, 230, 261
Nash, John, midshipman, 14
Nash, Richard, midshipman, killed, 14
Nauticus, junior, 28 n.
Navy Board, letter from, 262 n.
Nazer, John, mate, 202
Neate, William, midshipman, 39
Nelson, Horatio, captain, 131; at Tunis, 132 n.; his comment on the ‘Resurgam Squadron,’ 145 n.; loses his eye, 147
Neve, Robert Jenner, midshipman, 125
New, Thomas, captain, court martial on, 230
Newfoundland, ice field near, 42
Newnham, clerk, said to be the admiral’s cow, 49; a butt, 55
Newport, Thomas, carpenter, broke by court martial, 224
Nichola, midshipman, insane, 63
Nichols, captain, 41
Nicholson, Richard, midshipman, 18
Nicholson, W. P., midshipman, 18
Noble, Christopher, lieutenant of marines, death from wounds, 201
Noble, George, lieutenant of marines, 38
Norman, James, captain, 182
Nott, John Francis, midshipman, 117
Nowell, William, lieutenant, a good jumper, 87, 90
O’Connor, John, midshipman, 119
Oliver, captain, 229, 233
Oliver, Thomas, mate, 124
Orchard, schoolmaster, his ‘black pudding,’ 15, 17
Osborne, Charles, lieutenant, 13
Otter, Charles, midshipman, taken prisoner, 116
Otway, R. W., captain, 229, 233
Owen, midshipman, 33–35
Palmer, Nisbet, lieutenant, 138; killed in action, 151–2
Pankhurst, Patty, tells a ghost story, 4
Pardieu [or Purdue, Simon], midshipman, 248
Parker, Hyde, admiral, ‘Old Vinegar,’ 11, 12, 82, 103–4
Parker, Sir Peter, vice-admiral, 23
Parr, Dr., assistant master at Harrow, 259–60 and n.
Parrots and monkeys, crew of an African ship lived on, 42; roast parrots, 51
Parry, William, admiral, 3, 174
Paton, George, master, 201
Patterson, George, master, 57, 58, 62
Paulett, Lord H., captain, 229, 233
Peard, S., captain, 229
Pearson, Sir Richard, captain, taken prisoner, 38, 96
Peas in the after-hold, 167–8 and n.
Peers, captain of the marines, 232
Penn, Sir William, captured Jamaica, 245
Pennants worn by transport officers, 250, 265–6
Penrose, captain, 227–8
Perkins, captain, 229
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
The Navy Records Society, which has been established for the purpose of printing rare or unpublished works of naval interest, aims at rendering accessible the sources of our naval history, and at elucidating questions of naval archæology, construction, administration, organisation and social life.
The Society has already issued:—
In 1894: Vols. I. and II. State Papers relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588. Edited by Professor J. K. Laughton. (30s.)
In 1895: Vol. III. Letters of Lord Hood, 1781–82. Edited by Mr. David Hannay. (None available.)
Vol. IV. Index to James’s Naval History, by Mr. C. G. Toogood. Edited by the Hon. T. A. Brassey. (12s. 6d.)
Vol. V. Life of Captain Stephen Martin, 1666–1740. Edited by Sir Clements R. Markham. (None available.)
In 1896: Vol. VI. Journal of Rear-Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752–1828. Edited by Professor J. K. Laughton and Commander J. Y. F. Sulivan. (10s. 6d.)
Vol. VII. Hollond’s Discourses of the Navy, 1638 and 1658. Edited by Mr. J. R. Tanner. (12s. 6d.)
Vol. VIII. Naval Accounts and Inventories in the Reign of Henry VII. Edited by Mr. M. Oppenheim. (10s. 6d.)
In 1897: Vol. IX. Journal of Sir George Rooke. Edited by Mr. Oscar Browning. (10s. 6d.)
Vol. X. Letters and Papers relating to the War with France, 1512–13. Edited by M. Alfred Spont. (10s. 6d.)
Vol. XI. Papers relating to the Spanish War, 1585–87. Edited by Mr. Julian Corbett. (10s. 6d.)
In 1898: Vol. XII. Journals and Letters of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin, 1773–1854 (Vol. II.), Edited by Admiral Sir R. Vesey Hamilton. (See XXIV.)
Vol. XIII. Papers relating to the First Dutch War. 1652–54 (Vol. I.). Edited by Mr. S. R. Gardiner, (10s. 6d.)
Vol. XIV. Papers relating to the Blockade of Brest, 1803–5 (Vol. I.). Edited by Mr. J. Leyland. (See XXI.)
In 1899: Vol. XV. History of the Russian Fleet during the Reign of Peter the Great. By a Contemporary Englishman. Edited by Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, (10s. 6d.)
Vol. XVI. Logs of the Great Sea Fights, 1794–1805 (Vol. I.). Edited by Vice-Admiral Sir T. Sturges Jackson. (See XVIII.)
Vol. XVII. Papers relating to the First Dutch War, 1652–54 (Vol. II.). Edited by Mr. S. R. Gardiner, (10s. 6d.)
In 1900: Vol. XVIII. Logs of the Great Sea Fights (Vol. II.). Edited by Sir T. S. Jackson. (Two vols. 25s.)
Vol. XIX. Journals and Letters of Sir T. Byam Martin (Vol. III.). Edited by Sir R. Vesey Hamilton. (See XXIV.)
In 1901: Vol. XX. The Naval Miscellany (Vol. I.). Edited by the Secretary. (15s.)
Vol. XXI. Papers relating to the Blockade of Brest, 1803–5 (Vol. II.). Edited by Mr. John Leyland. (Two vols. 25s.)
In 1902: Vols. XXII. and XXIII. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson (Vols. I. and II.). Edited by Mr. M. Oppenheim. (Two vols. 25s.)
Vol. XXIV. Journals and Letters of Sir T. Byam Martin (Vol. I.). Edited by Sir R. Vesey Hamilton. (Three vols. 31s. 6d.)
In 1903: Vol. XXV. Nelson and the Neapolitan Jacobins. Edited by Mr. H. C. Gutteridge. (12s. 6d.)
Vol. XXVI. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval MSS. in the Pepysian Library (Vol. I.). Edited by Mr. J. R. Tanner. (15s.)
In 1904: Vol. XXVII. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Naval MSS. in the Pepysian Library (Vol. II.). Edited by Mr. J. R. Tanner. (12s. 6d.)
Vol. XXVIII. The Correspondence of Admiral John Markham, 1801–7. Edited by Sir Clements R. Markham. (12s. 6d.)
In 1905: Vol. XXIX. Fighting Instructions, 1530–1816. Edited by Mr. Julian Corbett. (10s. 6d.)
Vol. XXX. Papers relating to the First Dutch War, 1652–54 (Vol. III.). Edited by the late Dr. S. R. Gardiner and Mr. C. T. Atkinson. (12s. 6d.)
In 1906: Vol. XXXI. The Recollections of Commander James Anthony Gardner, 1775–1814. Edited by Sir R. Vesey Hamilton and Professor J. K. Laughton.
To follow:
Vol. XXXII. Select Correspondence of Sir Charles Middleton, afterwards Lord Barham, 1759–1806 (Vol. I.). Edited by Professor J. K. Laughton.
Other works in preparation, in addition to further volumes of Mr. Tanner’s Descriptive Catalogue, of Sir William Monson’s Tracts, of The First Dutch War, which will be edited by Mr. C. T. Atkinson, and of The Naval Miscellany, are The Journal of Captain (afterwards Sir John) Narbrough, 1672–73, to be edited by Professor J. K. Laughton; A Series of Contemporary Pictures forming Panoramic Views of the Battles of the Third Dutch War, 1672–3, drawn for the first Lord Dartmouth, and lent to the Society by the present Earl, to be reproduced in facsimile under the superintendence of Mr. J. S. Corbett; Official Documents illustrating the Social Life and Internal Discipline of the Navy in the XVIIIth Century, to be edited by Professor J. K. Laughton; Select Correspondence of the great Earl of Chatham and his Sons, to be edited by Professor J. K. Laughton; and a Collection of Naval Songs and Ballads, to be edited by Professor C. H. Firth.
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December 1906.
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