APPENDIX
Reading edition
This book is necessarily condensed. It indicates, very briefly, some of the aspects of sea life in the Royal Navy during the latter years of Nelson’s career. Any reader desiring to learn more of that way of life will find the following authorities of service to him; they are some of the books from which the present writer has extracted his information:—
Admiralty Regulations and Instructions, 1734
Admiralty Regulations and Instructions, 1766
Admiralty Regulations and Instructions, 1790
Admiralty Regulations and Instructions, 1808
Admiralty Regulations for the Exercise of Great Guns in H.M. Ships, 1764
Barker, M. H. Greenwich Hospital
Barker, M. H. The “Victory”
Barker, M. H. The Naval Club
Blane, J. Diseases of Seamen, 1785
Brenton, E. P. Life of Earl St Vincent
Broadhead, A. G. The Navy as It is
Captain in the Navy Observations
Charnock, W. Marine Architecture
Clowes, Sir W. Laird History of the Royal Navy
Cochrane, T. Autobiography
Cochrane, T. Observations on Naval Affairs
Coke, Hon. Henry Tracks of a Rolling Stone
Collingwood, G. L. N. Life and Letters of Lord Collingwood
Congreve, Sir W. The Mounting of Naval Ordnance
Davis, Joshua Narrative
Derrick, C. Memoirs of the Royal Navy
Douglas, Sir H. Naval Gunnery
Dundas, Lord A Fair Statement
Edye, L. Records of the Royal Marines
Falconer, R. Dictionary of the Marine, 1789
Falconer, R. Dictionary of the Marine, Burney’s edition, 1815
Glascock, W. N. Naval Service
Glascock, W. N. Naval Sketch Book
Glascock, W. N. Tales of a Tar
Glascock, W. N. The Night Watch
Glascock, W. N. Land Sharks and Sea Gulls
Greener, W. The Gun
Griffiths, A. L. Observations on Seamanship
Hall, B., Capt. The Midshipman
Hall, B., Capt. The Lieutenant and Commander
Hamilton, Sir E. Story of the “Hermione”
James, W. Naval History
Leech, Samuel Thirty Years from Home
Leslie, R. C. Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words
Liddel, R. Seaman’s Vade Mecum
Lind, J. Essay on the Health of Seamen
Long, W. H. Naval Yarns
Marks, E. C. R. Evolution of Modern Small Arms
Marryat, F. Impressment in the Royal Navy
Maydman, H. Naval Speculations
Melville, Herman White Jacket
Miles, E. Epitome of the Royal Navy
Mitford, Jack Johnny Newcome in the Navy
Moyle, Jasper Chirurgus Marinus
Nasty-Face, Jack Nautical Economy
Naval Chronicle, 1799-1805
Naval Exhibition Catalogue, 1891
Naval Orders and Statutes
Navy at Home, The
Neale, W. J. History of the Mutiny at Spithead
O’Brien, D. H. My Adventures
Officer in Royal Navy An Address, 1787
Old Naval Surgeon An Address to Officers
Old Seaman Impressment
Orders in Council for H.M. Navy
Ricketts, Captain Popularity of the Royal Navy
Robinson, Commander C. N. The British Fleet
Schomberg, J. Naval Chronology
Scott, Michael Cruise of the “Midge”
Sinclair, A. Reminiscences
Smollett, T. Works, edition 1797
Somerville, A. Autobiography
Statutes relating to H.M. Navy
Steel, T. Seamanship
Thompson, E. Sailor’s Letters
Urquhart, T. Evils of Impressment
Ward, E. Wooden World dissected
To this list may be added the nautical novels of Captains Marryat and Chamier; a number of manuscripts in the British Museum and Public Record Office; the works of Garneray and De la Gravière; one or two obscure books of seamanship, and articles in Blackwood, The Nautical Magazine, The English Historical Review, The Fortnightly, and other reviews. I have also consulted the models at Greenwich, the Trinity House, and the United Service Institution, and the nautical prints at the British Museum.
For the costumes worn by the officers and men I have consulted many pictures, drawings, and old prints, particularly the set of colour prints by Rowlandson (1797), now at Greenwich Hospital, and the drawings and pictures of De Loutherbourg.
Some of the drawings reproduced as illustrations to my text are of a slightly later date than the battle of Trafalgar. I have included the three drawings by Captain Marryat (which date, I suppose, between 1809 and 1820), because they are vivid and spirited. They are true to the life, if something out of drawing, and there are not many drawings extant which represent the sea life so accurately, and with so much humour.