Chapter X: Part 10

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

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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.

Footnote 32:

When in command of the Countess of Scarborough, hired ship.

Footnote 33:

Esteemed a good antiscorbutic. Our ships continued to brew it, up to
1840.

Footnote 34:

Possibly a pun on ‘_turn_-ing _up_ Channel’ (_cf._ _ante_, p. 37); or
a variation on the familiar ‘playing hell and turn up Jack’ = ‘making
things lively’ (_cf._ _post_, p. 65).

Footnote 35:

The list is interesting, as showing that, in 1785, a ‘smock frock’ was
in the slop-list.

Footnote 36:

This would seem to have been a mere short-lived association, with its
head quarters at St. John’s, and may, perhaps, be compared—with a
difference—to the nearly contemporary ‘Order of Marlborough,’
described in _N.R.S._ vi. 387. There are obvious geographical reasons
why it cannot have been connected with any foul club of the name
(there was a long succession of such) in London.

Footnote 37:

See Charnock, vi. 284.

Footnote 38:

Died, in command of the Grampus, 1786. See _D.N.B._

Footnote 39:

The purser ‘was allowed one-eighth for waste on all provisions
embarked.’ Provisions were thus issued at the ‘purser’s pound’ of 14
oz.—Smyth. In the mutiny at Spithead in 1797, the seamen demanded and
obtained an order that the pound should in future be of 16 oz.

Footnote 40:

December 3, 1781.—Beatson, v. 424.

Footnote 41:

Or ‘Heck-boats.’ See Smyth, _Sailors’ Word-Book_.

Footnote 42:

_Sc._ crow-bar. _Cf._ Smyth, _Sailors’ Word-Book_.

Footnote 43:

More correctly, _a-mok_—a Malay term.

Footnote 44:

The full dress is perhaps meant.

Footnote 45:

John Urry, a captain of 1768; died 1800.

Footnote 46:

He died, admiral of the red, in 1837.

Footnote 47:

_D.N.B._

Footnote 48:

Rear-admiral, 1794: died 1804.

Footnote 49:

Rear-admiral, 1794; died, admiral of the red, 1814.

Footnote 50:

_D.N.B._

Footnote 51:

John Culverhouse, 1st lieutenant of the Minerve, was made commander
for the capture of the Spanish frigate Sabina, on the special
recommendation of Nelson. Captain, 1802. Drowned when agent for
transports at the Cape of Good Hope in 1809.—Nicolas, _Nelson
Despatches_ (Index).

Footnote 52:

Byam Martin’s recollection of Leveson Gower was even more unfavourable
than Gardner’s. _Cf._ _N.R.S._ xix. 292.

Footnote 53:

The ‘Belfry’—which has long been obsolete—is defined by Smyth as ‘an
ornamental frame or shelter, under which the ship’s bell is
suspended.’ It would seem to have been commonly fixed on the break of
the forecastle, and is so shown in the models in the Museum of the
Royal United Service Institution.

Footnote 54:

Misappropriation of government stores (Smyth, _Sailors’ Word-Book_).
_Cf._ _N.R.S._ xxviii. 48. A writer in _Notes and Queries_ (X. ii.
397) refers the term to the Dutch ‘te kaap varen’ = to go
a-privateering (_N.E.D._, _s.v._ Cape); a not improbable derivation.

Footnote 55:

Musical composer, died 1796. _Cf._ _D.N.B._

Footnote 56:

See in the Record Office (_Admiralty, Sec. In Letters_, 5326), the
minutes of these curious and remarkable courts martial—on David
Wardrope, the surgeon, for drunkenness, quarrelling and beating the
lieutenants: death; on William Wall and John Lucas, lieutenants, for
permitting themselves to be beaten: dismissed the ship; on George
Dawson, captain, for tyranny, oppression, malversation, suttling and
such like: dismissed the service; and on John Wilkie, the master, for
neglect of duty, disobedience, disrespect and drunkenness: dismissed
the ship.

Footnote 57:

Le Languedoc, 80, D’Estaing’s flagship. She had been previously
dismasted in a gale. _Cf._ Beatson, iv. 348; Chevalier, i. 117.

Footnote 58:

Syrup of maidenhair, flavoured with orange-flower.

Footnote 59:

There are not so many readers of Ossian now as there were a hundred
years ago, and the description given of this Spirit may be novel.
‘Connal lay by the sound of the mountain stream, beneath the aged
tree.... At distance from the heroes he lay; the son of the sword
feared no foe. The hero beheld, in his rest, a dark-red stream of fire
rushing down from the hill. Crugal sat upon the beam, a chief who fell
in fight.... His face is like the beam of the setting moon. His robes
are of the clouds of the hill. His eyes are two decaying flames. Dark
is the wound of his breast....’—_Fingal_, ii.

Footnote 60:

Without quite being ‘one of the first mathematicians in Europe,’ it is
probable enough that Macbride was really an able man. The old
schoolmasters were of two sorts: either they were respectable,
half-educated men, who were rising in life and sometimes became
pursers, occasionally even lieutenants; or, and more commonly, they
were clever, highly educated men, ruined by drink, and on the down
grade. We may believe that Macbride was a man of this stamp. _Cf._
also Byam Martin’s experience on board the Pegasus (_N.R.S._ xxiv.
57). Some of our most distinguished captains and admirals endeavoured,
at their own expense, to remedy this utterly disgraceful state of
things:—_e.g._ Pellew in the Caledonia, Sir Samuel Hood in the
Centaur; but it was not till 1836 that the Admiralty tried to make an
entirely new departure by the institution of naval instructors.
Complete success, however, came very gradually. Some of the earlier
officers so appointed were not uncommonly put to bed by a _posse_ of
their pupils; and even less than fifty years ago, one of them—a
capable instructor and a clever writer—went on four days’ leave to his
cabin, in company with half a dozen of brandy. All might have gone
well—from his point of view—had not the supply run short after two
days, and the wretched man, in his night shirt and a state bordering
on _delirium tremens_, appeared in the ward room clamouring for drink.

Footnote 61:

Tyrannical and oppressive as a captain, but reputed a brave officer
previous to 1st June 1794. His conduct on that day led to his being
tried by court martial, and dismissed his ship—whether for cowardice,
or for Howe’s inability to make himself understood, may be doubted.

Footnote 62:

Marshall, iii. 89.

Footnote 63:

It will, of course, be remembered that all boats were then hoisted in;
boat-davits were unknown.

Footnote 64:

Marshall, iv. 1007.

Footnote 65:

‘What! put a physician in a bread bag!’ is quoted as the remark of a
newly caught surgeon’s mate, on being shown his bed.

Footnote 66:

This superstitious dread of the raven was as common on shore as afloat
(see _post_, p. 258), and is by no means extinct even now.

Footnote 67:

Captain of the Prince George in the battle of Cape St. Vincent.
Grand-uncle of the late Sir George Willes.

Footnote 68:

As the admiral compared Mr. Pringle to a scuttle butt (_ante_, p. 67),
there would seem to be another meaning in the name.

Footnote 69:

The traditional meaning of the name is a curious comment on ‘the
worthy fellow.’

Footnote 70:

Whilst in command of the Growler brig, captured by French privateers,
21st Dec 1797.

Footnote 71:

Afterwards Sir Henry Martin, Bart., Comptroller of the Navy; died
1794. See _N.R.S._, vol. xxiv. p. viii.

Footnote 72:

Howe was ordered to hoist the union jack, and considered himself as
‘brevet’ admiral of the fleet.

Footnote 73:

Son of Samuel Faulknor, captain of the Victory when she was lost on
the Casquets in 1744; uncle of Captain Robert Faulknor, the
‘Undaunted’; flag captain with Keppel in 1778. Died, admiral of the
blue, 1795.

Footnote 74:

The reference is possibly to the retreat from Burgos in November 1812.

Footnote 75:

Many did deny this, while admitting that he was ‘a brave and
meritorious officer.’

Footnote 76:

Billy Culmer is a familiar character in the gossiping memoirs of the
old war, _e.g._ _Greenwich Hospital_, by the Old Sailor (M. H.
Barker). From Gardner’s account of him, we may fairly believe that
Barker’s anecdotes are also genuine. It is noted in the Barfleur’s
pay-book, that he was born in Bridgwater, and was 35 in 1790. Of
course, this is by no means conclusive evidence of the fact.

Footnote 77:

If we are to accept the statement that he was 35 in 1790, he was two
years old in 1757. He may have been with Hood in the Romney in
1767–70.

Footnote 78:

The victualling yard, whose name was not inaptly transferred to the
biscuit-grub.

Footnote 79:

_Sc._ squinting.

Footnote 80:

Such silence was then very exceptional, and continued so till seventy
years later (1861–2), when Sir William Martin, commander-in-chief in
the Mediterranean, insisted on it.

Footnote 81:

The order which the midshipman brought from the flagship.

Footnote 82:

A periphrastic euphemism for to be flogged.

Footnote 83:

A puddening is defined as ‘a thick wreath of cordage, tapering from
the middle towards the ends’ (Falconer). The joke, such as it is,
seems to refer to the thickening in the middle.

Footnote 84:

_Sc._ with a rope’s end or a cane.

Footnote 85:

It is, perhaps, more probable that, at the extreme end of the roll,
the sea came up to the yard.

Footnote 86:

More likely they were carried away by the rolling. The wind might then
blow the boat away.

Footnote 87:

See a picture of this by Cruikshank in the Old Sailor’s _Greenwich
Hospital_.

Footnote 88:

Looks like an early form of Esperanto.

Footnote 89:

_Cf._ James, i. 78.

Footnote 90:

The story of this attack and its repulse is given by Chevalier, _Hist.
de la Marine Française sous la Première République_, pp. 41 _seq._

Footnote 91:

It has, of late years, been so persistently stated that black silk
handkerchiefs were introduced into the navy as a mark of mourning for
Nelson, that it is most refreshing to meet with this very positive
contradiction of the story.

Footnote 92:

Charles Cunningham, at this time commander of the Speedy brig, was not
a captain till some months later, and was then posted to the Unité.
The captain of the Lowestoft was William Wolseley—_Cf._ _D.N.B._

Footnote 93:

This is an allusion to the absurd story—which Gardner seems to have
believed—that James was American by birth. See _D.N.B._ In consequence
of his very free comments on the conduct of naval officers, James was
far from being a favourite in the service; and it must have been still
fresh in Gardner’s memory that he had been severely caned by Sir John
Phillimore.

Footnote 94:

Nelson wrote to his uncle, William Suckling, that, in his opinion, we
ought to have taken them—men of war and convoy; and if ‘we had given
the Bey 50,000_l._ he would have been glad to have put up with the
insult offered to his dignity.’

Footnote 95:

Bagrada is the classical name; the river is now called Mejerda.

Footnote 96:

In 1758.

Footnote 97:

For the story of these very remarkable sea fights, see Smith’s
_Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography &c._; _U.S. Mag._, Oct. 1889,
pp. 690–1.

Footnote 98:

The fresco is attributed to Nardo Daddi. See Kugler’s _Handbook of
Painting, Italian Schools_ (5th Edit), pp. 111, 112, where there is a
drawing of ‘The Last Judgment.’

Footnote 99:

Smollett, so called by Sterne in _A Sentimental Journey_. It is,
however, a much disputed point whether he was not buried at Leghorn.
See _Notes and Queries_ (1898, i.), IX. i. pp. 201, 309, 510; but it
will be noticed that the monument Gardner saw was earlier than that at
Leghorn, and his mention of the ‘remains’ at Montenero is of earlier
date than any evidence yet quoted in support of the Leghorn claim.

Footnote 100:

_Cf._ James, i. 208. The effective defence of this tower—which took
its name from the place (Mortella = Myrtle)—suggested the erection,
along our south coast, of those numerous, useless, and misnamed
Martello towers, against which the poet Campbell vainly protested.

Footnote 101:

See _ante_, p. 130, _n._

Footnote 102:

Nelson’s comment on the reappearance of these ships was not so
classical: ‘Sir Sidney Smith did not burn them all—Lord Hood mistook
the man: there is an old song, “Great talkers do the least, we see.”‘

Footnote 103:

Formerly Le Dauphin Royal, and afterwards L’Orient, burnt and blown up
at the Nile. She was really of 120 guns.

Footnote 104:

Golfe Jouan.

Footnote 105:

In April 1794. As no one was saved the details were never known. _Cf._
Brenton, _Naval History_, ii. 52.

Footnote 106:

The Tonnant, of 80 guns, already dismasted in the storm. The capture
was prevented, not by a gale coming on, but by the arrival of other
ships to her assistance. _Cf._ _ante_, p. 74.

Footnote 107:

William IV., at that time Duke of Clarence.

Footnote 108:

So in MS. The name is now entirely unknown, but it may perhaps have
some relationship to ‘brown Bess.’

Footnote 109:

French ships brought from Toulon. _Cf._ Schomberg, _Naval Chronology_,
iv. 471. It will be seen that the lists of these squadrons differ from
Schomberg’s, which are probably the more correct. The Alert, for
instance, had been captured on the coast of Ireland, in May.—James, i.
439.

Footnote 110:

A shirt in the rigging was the recognised signal from a merchantman
for a man of war boat to be sent on board.

Footnote 111:

_The Dunciad_, ii. 105. A reference to the original—of which only the
tense is here altered—will show the strict appositeness of the
quotation.

Footnote 112:

At this time peas were issued whole. Split peas were not issued till
about 1856—after the Russian war.

Footnote 113:

Rear-Admiral Trogoff, with his flag in the Commerce de Marseille, left
Toulon in company, with the English but he died within a few
months.—Chevalier, _op. cit._ pp. 90, 91.

Footnote 114:

A recognised form of encouragement. In the court martial on the
officers of the Ambuscade, captured by the French on the 14th
December, 1798 (James, ii. 273 _seq._), the boatswain was asked, ‘Did
you hear Lieut. Briggs call to the people to encourage them to come
aft and fight?’ and the answer was, ‘He called down to the waist to
come up and assist. I believe it was “Damn your eyes, come
up.”‘—_Minutes of the Court Martial._ _Cf._ Byron’s _Don Juan_, xi.
12.

Footnote 115:

It is only by the aid of such occasional and incidental notices that
we can now realise what a very real thing the Test Act of 1673 was,
and continued to be, till its repeal in 1828. It required ‘all persons
holding any office of profit or trust, civil or military, under the
crown, to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, receive the
sacrament of the Lord’s Supper according to the rites of the Church of
England, and subscribe the declaration against transubstantiation.’

Footnote 116:

As was the case in January, 1855.

Footnote 117:

Richard Poulden. Died, a rear-admiral, 1845.

Footnote 118:

Mr. Marriott, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Meteorological Society,
has kindly supplied the following note:—The frost began about the
middle of December 1794, was excessively severe in January, and
continued till the end of March. There were large falls of snow, and
the consequent floods were so great that nearly all the bridges in
England were injured. The greatest cold recorded was at Maidstone on
January 25, when a thermometer laid on the snow showed –14° F., and
another, five feet above the surface, –10° F. There was a thaw on
January 26–7, but on the 28th the frost returned and continued. Mr. A.
Rollin, secretary to the captain superintendent at Sheerness, has also
been so good as to send the following note, at the instance of
Rear-Admiral C. H. Adair: ‘In January 1795 King’s Ferry was frozen and
also Sheerness Harbour. People walked from ships in the harbour and
from the Little Nore to Sheerness on the ice for provisions.’ Mr.
Rollin mentions similar frosts in January 1776, and January 1789; but
has no record of the frost of January 1855, when the harbour, and
seaward as far as the eye could reach, was frozen over, forcibly
recalling Arctic memories.

Footnote 119: