Edited documents in this Naval Miscellany include the 14th-century repair of Bayonne Galleys, Armada correspondence, the building of Plymouth dockyard, letters of Admiral Collingwood, Nelson’s Public Order Book during his 1801 blockade of Boulogne, Louis Parsons’ journal 1882-1901, Captain Clayton’s letters from the Australia Station 1885-8, Dudley Pound’s Grand Fleet diary 1914-15, and HMS Aurora’s return of the Saudi royal family in 1945.
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List of Plates ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiv
The Bayonne Galleys 1
Edited by Susan Rose
The Armada Correspondence in Cotton MSS Otho E VII and E IX 37
Edited by Simon Adams
Edmund Dummer’s ‘Account of the General Progress and Advancement of His Majesty’s New Dock and Yard at Plymouth’, December 1694 93
Edited by Michael Duffy
Letters from Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood, 1794–1809 149
Edited by Captain C. H. H. Owen, RN
The Public Order Book of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, Commander in Chief of a Squadron of Ships and Vessels Employed on a Particular Service, July–October 1801 221
Edited by Colin White
The Journal of Louis Parsons, 1882–1901 256
Edited by Oliver Walton
The Letters of Captain Francis Starkie Clayton on the Australia Station, 1885–8 312
Edited by Mary Jones
Dudley Pound in the Grand Fleet, 1914–15 378
Edited by Paul G. Halpern
On Royal Duty: HMS Aurora’s Report of Proceedings 1945 427
Edited by Captain C. H. H. Owen, RN
Contents of Previous Naval Miscellany Volumes 439
Index 445
Ranks indicated are those of subject at time of first appearance, and in brackets are those ultimately attained.
accidents on board ship 281–2, 291, 296, 299–300, 309, 360
Accountant officers 321
Adelaide 326–7
Admiralty organisation 384–5
Alava, VA Ignacio 185, 191
Albany 326
Alva, Capt./Gen. Don Pedro de 78
Amoy 293, 296
Anglo-French Naval Commission (1888) 316, 369–72
annexation into the empire by RN 333–5, 347
Arbuthnot, Charles 198
Armada campaign 58–89
armament
ammunition shortage (1588) 50, 81–3
‘ammunitioning’ 400–1
Bayonne galleys 4, 24
bomb vessels (1801) 236
HMS Camperdown (1890) 290
Congreve’s rockets, Collingwood’s aversion to 153
cracked guns (1914) 403
HMS Diamond (1880, 1885) 314
flat-bottomed boats (1801) 240–41
fusing Lyddite 386
HMS St Vincent (1910) 380
armies: Austrian 189, 213–14, 217; French 174, 214; Spanish 211–12, 213–14
Arn, Peter, netmaker 8
assaults on enemy ports 52–8, 174, 217–18, 226, 234–42, 384
attendance at ceremonial occasions 306–7, 309, 357–8, 375–6
Australia Station, tasks 314–16, 346–8
Backwell, Rev. Henry, Chaplain 262, 293 n.1, 294 n.1, 295 n.1
Bailly, 1st Lt 282
Baker, Mr, PM of Tonga 353, 355–6
Baltic offensive project (1914) 410–11
Barham, Adm. Sir Charles Middleton, Lord, 1st Lord 188
Barnard, Capt. (VA) Geoffrey 428–37
Barr, Lt (Cdr) 333, 338, 354
Bartlett, valet to Capt. Clayton 322
Battenberg, Adm. Prince Louis 381, 416–17
Bayly, VA Sir Lewis 381, 402, 406, 425
Bedford, VA Sir F. D. 299
Bedford, Capt. William 234
Bell, Lt John 170
Benier, Capt. 371
Bennet, Capt. Richard 216
Bernard, Peter, ship’s master 2 n.10
‘Bill’, pet lamb 286
Blackett, Sir Edward, MP 166, 177
Blacking Box, bumboat woman 282, 284
Blake, Sir H. 286
Borough, William 48, 55, 74
Boulogne, blockade of (1801) 221–55; attacks on shipping 226 (4 August), 234–42 (15 August)
‘Bounce’, dog 152
Bowyer, RA George 157–8
Brassey, Lord and Lady 359
Brathwaite, Capt. Richard 150
Bremer, 2nd Lt James 322, 342, 345, 350, 362
Brest, blockade of (1799–1804) 168, 170–72, 174, 178
Brooke, Capt. A.T. 320, 326–8, 337, 363
Buenos Ayres expedition (1806–7) 201
Burghley, Robert Cecil, Lord 43, 68, 75 n.1
Burney, VA Sir Cecil 381, 384
Byng, Adm. Sir George 99
Cadiz, attack on (1587) 43, 47–8, 52–8, blockade of (1797–8) 164; (1805–8) 179, 187, 196, 207–8
Calder, VA Sir Robert 181
Callaghan, Adm. Sir George 387–8
Castete, John of, painter 12
Castries Bay, Siberia 294
Cathcart, Lt William 226
caulking 4, 8–16, 18, 33
Cawsand Bay 173
Chalmers, James, missionary 330, 332
Chatham, William Pitt, 1st Earl 234
Chatham, John Pitt, 2nd Earl, 1st Lord 159, 217 n.5
chaplains 262, 319, 301, 303–4, 386
Chefoo 271–2, 277
China station, tasks 259, 260–1
Christy, William, purser 163
Churchill, (Sir) Winston Spencer, 1st Lord 410, P.M. 427–9
Clarence, Duke of 154, 221
Cisneros y Littera, RA Baltasar Hidalgo de 185
Clayton, William 312
Clayton, Capt. (Adm.) Francis 312–77
care of sick 339–40, 360
on constraints of telegraph 319, 324, 360
irritation with British government: Admiralty 325, 336–7, 360, 364, 368; Colonial Office 332; Foreign Office 345, 353, 369, 371; Treasury 348
on ‘island work’ 329–31, 333–4, 346–7, 349
on pillory by press and parliament 333, 337, 340–41, 343, 350
opinion of his crew 327–9, 341, 360, 371, 376
opinion of his officers 318, 321–2, 341–2, 350, 352
political opinions 325, 336–7
pro modernisation of navy 363, 368, 373
religious views 318–19, 325, 335, 355, 369
sense of duty 324, 335, 365
updating technical knowledge 364
Cloete, Cdr Edward B. 413
coaling 269, 272, 275, 278, 283, 290–91, 293, 297, 305, 310, 383, 386, 387, 391, 395, 402, 407, 413
coaling stations 320 (Newcastle), 327 (Albany)
Cobham, Lord 70, 85
Cobham, Sir Henry 43, 83
Cochrane, Capt. Thomas, Lord 211, 215–16
collections for distressed seamen and families 289, 296
Collingwood, Cuthbert, VA Lord 149–220
career 150–55
concern for law and order 172–3
dislike of parliamentary discord and its affects 178–80, 204, 215–16
exhausting effects of war command 166, 171, 177–8, 181, 202, 208–10, 216
family life 166, 171–4, 176–7, 202
hostility to French Revolution and Napoleon 156, 164–5, 196, 214
need for energetic resistance to French 160, 164–5, 196
recommendations on equipping for naval life 188
on falsehoods of press 212–13
opinion of Nelson 190
on religion and the constitution 197–8
on trade warfare 203–4
unhappiness with St Vincent 166–7
Collingwood, Edward 149, 180, 183 n.3
collisions 282, 296, 403
Colombo 270
colonial officers 318, 326
Cordoba y Ramos, Adm. José de 162
Cosway, (Sir) William Richard, Collingwood’s secretary 151
Corbett, Sir Julian 38, 47, 58 n.1, 63 n.1
Cornwallis, Adm. Sir William 172
Cotton, Adm. Sir Charles 155, 212
Cotton, Sir Robert 37, 39 n.3, 40–42
Crease, Cdr (Capt) Thomas Evans 417
Creevey, Thomas 152
Crespigny, Mid. Augustus James
Champion de 200, 202
Creswell, Adm. Sir William 312
Croker, Capt., memorial to 356
Cross, Surgeon Horace 317, 339–40, 373
Dale, Capt. Alfred 317
Dartmouth 96
daylight, importance for decisive action 160
death of Queen Victoria, ceremonial for 306–7
desertion 284, 287, 297, 303
Devereux, Walter 76–7
‘Dick’, dog 257, 294–5
Dickson, Adm. Archibald 222
diplomacy and the navy 215
discipline on board ship 166, 175–6, 264–5, 285, 290, 295, 298, 303, 320, 325, 327–9, 364, 389
docks:
dry docks, 95
Belfast 409
Chatham 100, 118 n.1
Cockatoo Island, Sydney harbour 325, 337–8
Nagasaki 297
Plymouth 96–100, 105–7, 111–12, 115–23, 137–40
Portsmouth 95, 96–9, 119 n.3, 120 n.1
Rochefort 97
wet docks
Plymouth 97–8, 115–18, 138–40
Portsmouth 98
Toulon 98, 118
floating docks 403, 409
dockyards and naval bases
Alexandria 428–30
Bermuda 289, 302
Chatham 267–8
English Harbour, Antigua 284
Garden Island, Sydney harbour 360
Gibraltar 269, 292
Halifax, Nova Scotia 283, 288–9, 300–301, 305–6, 308–9
Hong Kong 297
Plymouth 52, 61–2, 75–6, 78–9, 96
Devonport 403
Plymouth Dock
anchor forge 108, 136
boat houses 108, 135
cranes 108, 136, 141
docks see above
great storehouse/great square magazine 100, 108, 111, 114, 126–8, 141
hemphouse 108, 112, 114, 129–31, 141
masthouse 108, 135, 142
officers’ houses 107, 111, 115, 123–6, 141
pitchhouses 109, 136
porters’ lodge 108, 136, 142
rigging house 108
ropehouse 108, 112, 114, 129–31, 133, 141
sail loft 129
sawpits 136, 142
small forges 135
white and tarr’d yarn house 108, 131–3, 141
Portland 299, 310, 386
Portsmouth 78, 81 n.3 n.4, 96–9, 101, 116 n.1, 119 n.3, 120 n.1, 121 n.1, 131, 267, 280, 290–91, 300, 360, 380
Port Royal, Jamaica 287
Sheerness 267, 280–81
Vladivostok 272–3, 294–5
dockyard workforce 101–2, 117
Domvile, Group Capt. J.P. 430–32, 434–6
Dowell, Adm. Sir William 277
Drake, Sir Francis, 37, 44, 46–8, 52–5, 59–60, 62 n.1, 66, 75, 88
Dreyer, Capt. (Adm. Sir) Frederick C. 385
Driffield, Thomas de, clerk of Edward II1, 8, 27
drills and firing practice 261, 268, 270, 272, 276–7, 285, 290, 293, 295–6, 298, 303, 305, 307, 338, 341, 350, 360, 365–8, 387, 390, 396, 405, 413, 415, 423, 425–6, 428, 434
Duckworth, VA Sir John Thomas 187, 189
Duff, Capt. George 189
Dummer, Edmund, Surveyor of the Navy: 93–146; career 95, 103
dummy warships (‘coastal squadron’ 1914) 422–3
Dutch fleet, importance of 69, 74, 82, 160
education of young officers 179, 188, 196, 200, 202, 210–11, 312–13, 318, 329, 350, 363
entertainment of public 283–4, 289, 297,
291, 293, 341–3
Eldon, John Scott, Lord Chancellor 152
Evan-Thomas, RA Sir Hugh 380
exercises and sham fights 260, 272, 282, 283, 288, 290–91, 300, 306, 328, 341, 365–8, 391, 395, 405
Fairfax, RA (Sir) Henry 352, 358–9, 361–2, 365, 367, 370, 373–6
Fairfax, Mrs 365, 376
Falkland Islands, battle of (1914) 423
‘Fanny’, dog 269
Fenner, Capt. George. 61 n.1, 77
Fenner, Thomas 43, 47, 55–8, 61–2
Fiji 346, 354
Fisher, A. of F. John Arbuthnot, Lord 381–2, 416–17
Fisher, Capt. (Adm. Sir) William Wordsworth 379–80, 383–5, 393
Fitch, John, contractor 103
fitting out captain’s quarters 317–18
fitting out ship 1–36, 268, 281
fitting out young officers 188
flags and banners 27, 431
Fogo, George, gunner 163
Foster, Mid. Thomas 318
Fourn, William Bernard/Badir de, ship’s master 2, 27
Frederick, RA Thomas 168
Fredericton, N.B. 305
freemasonry in RN 265, 287, 295, 301–2, 304, 305–6, 310
Frobisher, ?Martin 69
Fullerton, Lt 304
galley v sailing ship actions 52, 57–8, 71–2
Gardage, Peter of, carpenter 31–33
Gardner, RAAlan 157
Gaunt, RA E.F.A. 384
gifts 435–6
Glorious First of June, battle of (1794) 156–60
Gore, Capt. John 235
Gorst, Edward 312
Gorst (Clayton), Mary 312
Gorst, Tom 312
Graeme, VA Alexander 222
Grand Fleet 396–7, 409, 424
‘submarineitis’ 388, 390–4, 397, 401–2, 405–7, 412–16, 424
fear of mines 404–5, 407–8, 417–18
morale 388–9, 393, 397, 403, 405
Graves, RA (Adm.) Sir Thomas 157–8
Gravina, VA Frederico 185, 191
Greenebaum, Mr, American consul 344–6
Greenhill, Capt. Henry, naval agent 98, 102, 105 n.2, 125
Grenada 302
Grenville, Thomas, 1st Lord 198
gunnery skills 163, 184, 350, 384, 423, 434
Hakodote 295, 297
Hammill, Flag Capt. Tynte Ford 365, 367
Hamilton, Capt. Sir Edward, court martialled 176
Hamilton, Emma, Lady 243–4
Hamilton, Sir William 243–4
Hamilton Moore, John, author of New Practical Navigator 188
Hankow 276
Harris, Capt. 269
Hartlepool, bombardment of (1914) 424
Hawke, Adm. Sir Edward 99–100
Hawkesbury 308
Hawkins, John, Treasurer of the Navy 37, 44, 63–5, 67; accusations of corruption 65
Hawkins, Capt. Richard 233
Hay, Robert, seaman 152
Heligoland Bight: action (1914) 403–5, sweep 408
Hipper, RA Franz 381
Hobart 322–3, 326, 354
Hong Kong 271, 274–5, 279, 293, 298
Hornby, Adm. Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps 312
Howard of Effingham, Lord High Adm. 39–40, 43–5, 47–9, 55, 58–60 (Instructions), 67 n.1, 68–78, 82, 88
Howard, Lord Thomas 69
Howe, Adm. Richard, Earl 156, 158–9
Howick, Charles Grey, Lord, 1st Lord 199
Hutt, Capt. John 158
Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz, King of Saudi Arabia 427, 429–35
inspections 268, 274, 320–21, 343
intelligence gathering 45–9, 53, 55–6, 69, 71, 74–5, 81, 95, 164, 168, 203, 327, 383, 420, 422, 424
invasion, threat of 50, 53, 59–60, 70–71, 74, 81, 87–8, 164, 174, 221–55
Irwin, Capt. John 191
Jackson, VA (A. of F.) Sir Henry Bradwardine 404
Jane’s Fighting Ships, RN use of 422
Jeddah 434, 436
Jellicoe, Adm. Sir John 383, 387, 407, 410
Jervois, Major (R.E.) 326
Jonsing, Mammy, washerwoman 288, 303
Jordan, Mr, Minister to Saudi Arabia 432, 435–6
Kane, Capt. (Sir) H.C. 364, 370
Keith, Adm. George Elphinstone, Lord 167–8
Keyes, RA Roger 384–5
Killegrew, Adm. 96
Kobe 298
Kuhn, Capt. 358
Lake, Flag Capt. Atwell 318, 351, 358, 365 n.1
Landless, Cdr William 199
Larkman, cook 322
Latouche Tréville, Adm. Louis René de 221, 226, 234–5
Laughton, J.K. 38–40, 44, 47, 49
law and order enforcement in the empire 330–35, 337, 343–4, 346, 348–51, 355–8, 361–2, 372
Le Fevre, Adm. 370, 372
Learmouth, Mid. Cecil 318
leave ashore 166, 270–71, 273–4, 276, 278, 282–3, 287, 291, 294–5, 296, 298, 301, 303–5, 319
Lee, Robert, master shipwright 95
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of, 41, 43–5, 49–50, 52, 61, 63, 66, 70–71, 75–6, 79–80 n.1, 87–8
Lesgo, Arn’John of, carpenter 22–4
Lesgo, Fortius of, carpenter 9–10, 13–15, 17
Lincoln, Edward Fiennes, Earl of, Lord High Adm. 44–5
Loch, Sir H. 341, 375
Loch Ewe 399–400, 409–10, 414–15
Long, Capt. 277
Lough Swilly 416
Louis, RA (Sir) Thomas 187
Loxley, Capt. A.N. 425
Lussye, John of, carpenter 14–17, 19–22, 33–4
Lutwidge, Adm. Skeffington 222, 243, 246–7
Lyall (Clayton), Edith 313
Magon, RA Charles 185
Malietoa, King of Samoa 344–6
Malta 270–71, 299
manning 78–9, 160–61, 258–61, 403
marriageability of naval officers 320, 323, 351, 359
Marsden, William, Sec. of Admy 191
Martin, RA George 191 n.4, 209
Martin, Lt James 237
Martin, Capt. (Adm. Sir) Thomas Byam 154, 187
Marx, Capt. 350
masts and mast-making 13–14, 108, 247
May, VA Sir William 379
Medina Sidonia, Duke of 84–6 n.2
Melbourne 318, 374–6
Melville, Henry Dundas, Lord, 1st Lord, impeached 178–80
memorials for dead 276–7
Milne, Adm. Sir Archibald Berkeley 404
Missett, Major Ernest 198–9
Mitchell, Sir Charles 353–4
Moncuke, Amato de, ship’s master 35
Montagu, Capt. James 158
Montreal 286–7, 289
Moore, RA (Adm.) Sir Archibald G.H.W. Moore 409
Mosse, John, paymaster 317, 342
Moulton, Mr, missionary 355–6
Mulgrave, Lord, 1st Lord 153–5, 210
music on board ship 273, 282, 287, 289, 292, 299, 306, 319, 321, 325–6, 342, 371, 397, 403, 431
mutiny in Téméraire (1801) 175–6
Nagasaki 278, 293, 296, 298
naval architecture, comments upon 212, 363
‘naval scares’ and Naval Defence Act (1889) 259–60, 373
navy
English 75–6, 79, 88
British 158, 368, 371, 373, 375, 409
French 157–8, 174, 189–90, 213–16, 265–6, 294–5, 360, 371, 418
Dutch 69, 74, 92, 160
German 337, 344–5, 358, 381, 398–9,
404–6, 409, 411, 414, 424
Russian 265–6, 272–3, 277, 294–5, 367
Spanish 53, 72, 78–9, 88, 162–4
U.S. 273, 297–8, 345
Navy Board 44–5, 95–6, 98, 103
Nelson, VA Horatio, Lord 150, 163, 167, 174, 181 n.2, 182–3, 188, 190, 221–55, 302
Norddeich telegram 394
North America and West Indies Station, tasks 259, 261
oars 4, 25
officer self-education 364, 368, 373, 378–426
Oleleh 274–5
Ollivier, Blaise, French master shipwright 99, 118 n. 2
Orde, RA Sir John 167
Order books 223–5
Paget, Sir Arthur 198
painting ship 4, 12, 28–31, 259, 261, 275, 278, 293, 297 n.1, 308–10, 360, 397–9, 401–2
Palmer, Sir Harry 69, 71–2, 74
Panama Canal Company disaster 287–8
Parker, Capt. (1587) 54–5
Parker, Cdr Edward 223, 225–8, 235, 243–4
Parker, Adm. Sir Peter, patron of Nelson and Collingwood 150, 183
Parker, Capt. Peter 184
Parker, VA Sir William 168
Parma, Duke of 59–60, 73–4, 84–8
Parsons, CPO Louis, painter 256–311
in HMS Linnet (1882–6) 267–79
in HMS Pylades (1886–89) 280–89
in HMS Camperdown (1890–1) 290–92
in HMS Imperieuse (1891–4) 292–9
in HMS Crescent (1899–1901) 299–310
Pasley, RA Thomas 157
pay: officers 322, 336, 348, 359; sailors 35–6, 62, 322; wardroom cook 319
Penjdeh crisis (1885) 277, 324–7
Pepys, Samuel 38, 95
Pilcher, Cdr (VA) Cecil Horace 426
Poldhu telegrams 390 n.3, 394, 411, 417
Popham, Cdre Sir Home 201
Port Hamilton 278, 293, 296
Port Mahon 168
Pound, Cdr (Adm. Sir) A. Dudley P.R. 378–426
and use of aircraft 382, 391–2, 394, 416, 423
and use of submarines 382–3, 410, 416, 420–2
and blockade 382, 410–11
and future fleet composition 415–16
and need for staffs 382, 421
and trade protection 382, 396, 400, 411–12, 416, 419
Powley, Sub. Lt Herbert 340
promotion prospects 169–70, 216, 218
pulleymaking 22, 35
Purvis, VA John 155
Pynsole, Peter Bernard of, ship’s master 2
Quebec 301, 309
racial attitudes in RN 270–71, 276, 278–9, 282, 292, 330–31, 334–5, 344, 356–7, 362, 372, 403
religious observance 274, 295 n.1318–19, 335, 432
revenue and excise cutters 248–9
Robertson, John, author of Elements of Navigation 188
Rochefort, blockade of 178, 203, 205
Roddam, Adm. Robert 161 n.2, 165, 172–6, 189, 206
Roebuck, Lt (Adm.) John de 257, 294
Rolfe, Capt. 283, 285
Rotheram, Capt. Edward 181
rope and rigging/cordage 22, 65
ropery/ropewalk 102, 108, 129–33
Royse, Rev. W.H. Harvey, Chaplain 301, 303, 304–5
sails and sail making 66, 129, 374
St Domingo, Dominic de, caulker 9–18, 20, 33–5
St John, NB 284
St Johns, Newfoundland 285–6, 310
St Lo, Capt. George, dockyard comm. 98
St Vincent, West Indies 302
St Vincent, Cape, battle of (1797) 162–3
St Vincent, Adm. John Jervis, Earl 162–3, 166–8, 170, 172, 222, 233, 235, 242–3
Salter, steward to Capt. Clayton 317–18, 322, 324
Samoa 316–17, 328, 343–6
Santa Cruz, Marquis of 52, 54, 56
Saumarez, Sir James, Capt. (Adm. Lord) 167
sawpits 136
Scapa Flow 382, 386, 388, 401–2, 405, 407, 413–16, 418, 420, 422, 424
Scarborough, bombardment of (1914) 424
schoolmaster 188, 196
Scott, Adm. Sir Percy 417
Scratchley, Gen. Sir Peter 330–32, 335
Sea Fencibles 226 227, 232–3
Sells, Cdr (VA) William Fortescue 413
Selwyn, Bishop John R. 329, 370
Sergison, Charles, Clerk of the Acts 103
Seymour, Lord Henry, VA 1587–8 60, 73–5 (Instructions)
Seymour, Admiral Sir Michael Culme 290
Shakespear, Lt William 317–19, 321, 324, 341, 350, 367, 376–7
Shanghai 271, 277–9
Shearston, Mr, Seaman’s Chaplain 319
shipbuilding 65
ship repair 8–36
ship’s stores and storehouses 126–8
ships (dates indicate year of first reference)
colonial warships
Protector (1885) 326
English/British warships
Aboukir (1914) 412, 425
Active (1801) 239–40
Agamemnon (1885) 277
Agincourt (1914) 403, 408
Alacrity (1891) 293, 296, 298
Albatross (1883) 272, 276
Alliance (1801) 255
Alonzo (1801) 253
Amethyst (1914) 404
Amazon (1801) 243, 253
Amphion (1914) 391 n.1
Anacreon (1801) 253
Apollo (1806) 190
Archer (1801) 252, 254
Ardent (1801) 253
Arethusa (1914) 404, 421
Argus (1801) 238
Ark Raleigh/Royal (1588) 69–70, 72
Attack (1801) 252, 254
Audacious (1794) 157
Audacious (1883) 272, 279
Aurora (1945) 427–37
Autumn (1801) 253
Badger (1779) 150
Barfleur (1794) 156–7, 159–60 n.1, 169 n.2
Batavier (1801) 253
Belleisle (1805) 186
Bellerophon (1886) 282
Bellerophon (1914) 385–6, 403
Benbow (1914) 409
Birmingham (1914) 392
Biter (1801) 254
Bold (1801) 252, 254
Boscawen training ship (1880) 258, 261, 299
Bouncer (1801) 252, 254
Boxer (1801) 252, 254
Brigandine (1588) 74
Brilliant (1801) 245, 253
Bruiser (1801) 252–3, 254
Bull (1588) 69
Caesar (1799) 169
Calliope (1888) 314, 363–4, 366–8
Camperdown (1890) 260, 265, 266, 290–2
Canada (1886) 282–90
Canopus (1914) 418
Caroline (1893) 297
Centurion (1894) 299
Centurion (1914) 389, 398
Charger (1801) 254
Chatham (1914) 419
Cleopatra (1883) 272–3
Clinker (1801) 254
Coastguard (1870s) 313
Collingwood (1914) 380
Colossus (1914) 380, 384, 425
Comus (1887) 284, 303
Conflict (1801) 252, 254
Conqueror (1914) 390
Constant (1801) 252, 254, 279
Cracker (1801) 252, 254
Crescent (1899) 261, 299–310
Cressy (1914) 412, 425
Cruizer (1856) 312
Culloden (1804) 152
Curacoa (1883) 272
Cygnet (1801) 253
Daphne (1801) 253
Daring (1883) 272–3, 278
Dart (1884) 314, 331, 340
Defence (1914) 418
Defender (1801) 254
Deptford (1709) 99
Dieulagarde (1417–18) 3
Diadem (1901) 309–10
Diamond (1884) 313–4, 317–18, 321–2, 324–5, 329, 338, 359–61, 363–4, 367–9, 374–7
Diligence (1801) 253
Discovery (1801) 229, 236–7, 254
Dolphin (1801) 239–40
Dominion (1914) 403
Donegal (1860s) 312
Dove (1806) 193
Dreadnought (1587) 52,
Dreadnought (1804) 177, 186
Eclipse (1801) 254
Elizabeth Bonaventure (1587) 53
Elizabeth Jonas (1588) 70 n.1
Emerald (1888) 285, 289
Emperor of India (1914) 409
Erin (1914) 409
Esk (1858) 312
Esk (1884) 275
Espiegle (1884) 314, 320
Eugenie (1801) 253
Excellent (1795) 160, 162, 166, 168 n.1
Explosion (1801) 236–8, 240, 254
Express (1801) 238, 246
Ferreter (1801) 254
Firm (1801) 255
Flamer (1801) 252
Force (1801) 254
Formidable (1914) 425
Forward (1887) 285, 287
Furious (1860s) 312
Galatea (1860s) 312
Galgo (1801) 233–4, 253
Gallant (1801) 254
Galleon Leicester (1588) 61 n.1, 63 nn.1–2, 77
Galley Bonavolia (1588) 74
Gannet (1801) 253
Gier (1801) 254
Glatton (1801) 253
Golden Lion (1587) 57
Good Hope (1914) 418
Grafton (1902) 379
Greyhound (1801) 238
Griper (1801) 252, 254
Harrier (1884) 314, 350
Hasty (1801) 254
Haughty (1801) 252, 254
Hawke (1914) 425
Hecla (1801) 229, 236–8, 255
Heldin (1801) 253
Hercules (1914) 380, 406
Hermes (1914) 425
Hind (1801) 239–40
Hogue (1914) 412, 425
Hope (1588) 79
Hound (1801) 254
Imperieuse (1891) 260, 262, 265, 292–9
Indefatigable (1914) 409
Indomitable (1914) 409
Inflexible (1914) 409, 418
Invincible (1794) 157
Invincible (1914) 409, 418
Iron Duke (1914) 383, 390, 392–3, 401, 407, 410, 415
Isis (1801) 253
Jackal (1801) 244, 252, 254
Jamaica (1801) 253
Kent (1709) 99
Kent (1914) 418
King Edward VII (1905) 379, 403
Kite (1801) 221
Laertes (1914) 404
Lancaster (1709) 99
Lark (1805) 187
Lark (1884) 314
Leander (1893) 297
Leda (1914) 415
Leyden (1801) 234, 240–1, 251, 253
Lily (1889) 287, 289
Linnet (1882) 259, 267–79
Lion (1914) 408
Lizard (1886) 314, 376
Locust (1801) 254
Magnificent (1898) 379, 406
Mallard (1801) 254
Mariner (1801) 252, 254
Marlborough (1914) 380, 390
Mars (1805) 189
Mary Rose (1588) 68, 70
Medusa (1801) 226, 232, 235, 238, 240–41, 252–3
Medway (1709) 99
Melpomene (1805) 184
Mercury (1894) 298
Mermaid (1790) 150
Minx (1801) 254
Miranda (1884) 314
Monarch (1914) 391–2
Monck (1709) 99
Monkey (1801) 252, 254
Monmouth (1914) 418
Myrmidon (1888) 314
Nelson (1884) 314, 318–19, 362–3, 366–8, 376
Nemesis (1801) 225
Neptune (1914) 380, 400, 419, 425
New Zealand (1914) 397
Newark (1709) 99
Nile (1801) 255
Niobe (1901) 309–10
Nottingham (1914) 406
Ocean (1806) 191, 193–4, 212
Opal (1885) 314, 337, 370
Opossum (1898) 379, 384
Orion (1914) 391, 400, 408
Orlando (1888) 314, 365,
Pathfinder (1914) 407
Pegasus (1884) 275
Perseus (1860s) 312
Phoebe (1868) 312–13
Pigmy (1894) 298
Plumper (1801) 252, 254
Plymouth (1709) 99
Prince (1793) 150, 186
Providence (1801) 238, 255
Puissant (1806) 191
Pylades (1886) 259, 280–90
Queen (1794) 157
Queen (1907) 379
Queenborough (1801) 238, 255
Ranger (1801) 238
Rainbow (1588) 64 n.2, 69
Rapid (1886) 314, 366, 375
Raven (1884) 314, 331, 364, 366
Redoubt (1801) 255
Renown (1801) 239–40
Renown (1899) 299
Restoration (1709) 99
Revenge (1892) 313
Rifleman (1884) 313
Roxburgh (1914) 390
Royal Sovereign (1794) 157, 182, 186
Royal William (1698) 120
Royalist (1888) 369, 376
Russell (1709) 99
Saint Edward galley (1320–7) 1–5, 8–36
Saint George galley (1320–7) 1–5, 8–36
St George (1860s) 312
St Vincent (1914) 378, 380, 393, 406
Salisbury (1709) 99
Savage (1801) 254
Serapis (1801) 244, 255
Severn (1893) 297
Shannon (1761) 150
Sidney (1914) 418
Sidon (1855) 312
Snipe (1801) 254
Sovereign, Sovereign of the Seas, Royal Sovereign (1694) 96, 121
Sparkler (1801) 254
Sulphur (1801) 229, 236–7, 255
Sunderland (1709) 99
Superb (1909) 379–380, 396, 401, 413
Swift (1885) 278
Swift (1914) 410
Swinger (1884) 314, 350
Talbot (1900) 303
Teaser (1801) 254
Téméraire (1802) 175–6
Terror (1801) 255
Tiger (1588) 69
Tiger (1914) 409
Tigress (1801) 254
Tourmaline (1886) 281–2, 289–90
Tribune (1899) 300, 305
Triumph (1588) 70 n.1
Triumph (1799) 168–9
Triumph (1892) 313
Undine (1884) 314
Unité (1801) 226, 253
Vanguard (1588) 69
Vanguard (1914) 380, 406
Venus (1801) 238, 255
Venus (2) (1801) 255
Victoria (1893) 319 n.1, 296
Victory (1588) 70 n.1
Vigilant (1883) 272
Ville de Paris (1809) 213
Vixen (1801) 254
Vlieter (1801) 255
Volcano (1801) 229, 255
Weymouth (1695) 98
White Bear (1588) 70 n.1
Wolf (1801) 255
York (1801) 238–9, 252–3
Zebra (1801) 229, 255
Zephyr (1883) 271–3
depot ships
Duke of Wellington (1880s) 267, 280
fleet repair ships
Assistance (1914) 415
passenger ships
Ballarat (1884) 313, 320
colliers
Mercedes (1914) 387
refrigerated ships
Jaffa (1914) 395, 402
storeships
Peshawur (1914) 400
Hampshire Coast (1914) 402
troopships
Euphrates (1889) 292
Himalaya (1889) 290
Orontes (1883) 273, 279–80
Jumma (1883) 280
Tamar (1891) 292
dummy warships
City of Oxford/‘St Vincent’ (1914) 423
French warships
Achille (1805) 184
Algésiras (1805) 185
Bisson (1889) 287
Duquesne (1888) 371–2
Fabert (1888) 371–2
Fougueux (1805) 186
France (1914) 386
Hurmann (1888) 285
Jean Bart (1914) 386
Indomptable (1805) 185
Lutin (1883) 273
Neptune (1805) 186
Northumberland (1794) 158
Revolutionnaire (1794) 157
Swiftsure (1805) 185
German warships
Ariadne (1914) 408
Augsburg (1914) 408
Bismarck (1887) 358
Breslau (1914) 390, 393, 396, 398
Derfflinger (1916) 384
Dresden (1914)
Emden (1914) 411, 418–19
Goeben (1914) 390, 393–4, 396, 398, 404
Gneisenau (1885) 328, 337
Gneisenau (1884) 423
Karslruhe (1914) 423
Königin Luise (1914) 390–91 n.1
Königsberg (1914) 419
Leipzig (1914) 423
Mainz (1914) 405
Nürnberg (1914) 423
Scharnhorst (1914) 423
U.15 (1914) 392, 394
Spanish warships
Montanez (1805) 186
Neptuno (1805) 185
Rayo (1805) 185
Salvador del Mundo (1797) 162
San Ildefonso (1805) 185
San Juan Nepomuceno (1805) 185
San Josef (1797) 162–3
San Nicolas (1797) 162
San Ysidro (1797) 162
Santa Anna (1805) 185
Santissima Trinidada (1797) 162–3
U.S. warships
Atlanta (1889) 287
Juniata (1883) 273
Lancaster (1893) 297
Ossipec (1889) 287
Quincy (1945) 427, 429
Sicily, defence of against Napoleon 201–3, 205
sickness 174, 262, 270, 276, 310, 337–41
Sidney Smith, RA Sir William 196
signalling 159, 227, 229–33, 249, 365, 367, 387, 392, 395, 397, 406, 408, 410, 412, 421–2, 434
Siniavin, VA Dmitri 200 n.1, 212–13 n.1
Skelton, Engineer Cdr (Engineer VA Sir) Reginald William 403
small boat operations 234–5, 237–8
Solana, Capt. Gen. Marquis 185
sounding machine 327
Spanish revolt, encouragement of 196, 207–8, 211–12
Spencer, George, Earl, 1st Lord 170
Spencer-Stanhope, Walter, MP 149, 159, 193 n.2
Spencer-Stanhope, William 179, 185, 191, 193–7, 199–200, 202, 206, 209–11, 213, 216
Spinan, Raymond de, ship’s master 2
sport and R.N. 265, 272–3, 275, 284–5, 292, 297, 305, 308–9, 356, 361–2, 367, 406
Stafford, Sir Edward, envoy to France 45–9, 52 n.2, 69
steam trials 268–9, 289, 300, 321
Steubel, Dr, German consul 344–6
Stoddart, Lt Archibald 312, 339, 342, 350, 359
storing ships 400–401
Strachan, Capt. (Adm.) Sir Richard, action 1805 186, 205, 217 n.5
Strahan, Sir George 322, 341
Sturdee, VA (A. of F.) Sir F.C. Doveton 384, 417–8, 423
Suez 270, 292
surveying 335
Sussex, Earl of, Capt. of Portsmouth (1588) 43, 50, 78, 81–2
Sutton, Capt. Samuel 243–4
Sydney 318, 326, 351, 354, 359
Tamasese, Vice-King of Samoa 344–6
Taylor, John, master shipwright 97
Thornborough, VA Edward 207
Tippetts, Sir John, Surveyor of the Navy 95
Tonga 352–8
Torbay 76, 173–5, 290
Torrington, Arthur Herbert, Adm. Lord 96
Toulon: blockade of 205, 207, 211, 213–14, 216
Tourville, Adm. Anne Hilarion de Constantin, Comte de 96
training ships 258, 261, 379
Trafalgar, battle of (1805) 182–9
transportation of state dignitaries 330–32, 354, 427–37
Trinity House, Elder Brethren of 228
Troia, John of, master painter 4, 28–31
Trollope, Capt. George 199
Tronkon, Peter, ship’s master 36
Trotter, Alexander, paymaster of the navy 178
Troubridge, Capt. (RA) Thomas 167
Tryon, VA Sir George 314, 319–20, 325–7, 329, 336–7, 340–1, 343–4, 347, 349, 351–3, 358, 365, 370
Valois, Capt. Peter 328, 337
Vera Cruz 283
victualling 4, 14, 18–27, 33, 52–3, 56–8, 62–63, 75, 78, 205, 247–8, 278, 283–4, 383, 391, 395–6, 402, 433
Villeneuve, VA Pierre Charles Jean-Baptiste Sylvestre 181 n.2, 183, 185
Vivian, assistant paymaster 320, 364
Vynan (Donynyan), Peter de, Adm. of the Bayonne fleet 3
Walcott, Cdr 326
Walsingham, Sir Francis 39–40, 44, 49–50, 73, 79–80, 82–6, 87–9
Warmington, Mr, naval storekeeper 248
Waters, Robert, stonemason 97, 105
Webb, CPO 389
West, Capt. John 211
Whitby, bombardment of (1914) 424
White, Capt. John 187
Wigges, Thomas, ship’s master 43, 63–8
William III 96–7, 106
Williams, Lt Aylmer 321, 342, 359
Williams, Lt Edward 244
Winter, Sir William 74, 86 n.2
Wood, Jacob, master’s mate 169–70
Wodehouse, Capt. Philip 245
wrecks and sinkings 157, 274–5, 289, 295, 296, 302, 407, 412–13, 418, 423, 425, 434
yachts
Governor Blackall (1885) 330
Ophir (1901) 309–10
Sunbeam (1887) 359
Yokohama 277, 297–8
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