Drake, Nelson and Napoleon eBook

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 331 pages of information about Drake, Nelson and Napoleon.

Drake, Nelson and Napoleon eBook

Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 331 pages of information about Drake, Nelson and Napoleon.

Ships.  Guns.  Commanders.  Killed.  Wounded Royal Sovereign 100 Vice-Ad.  Collingwood 47 94
                              Captain E. Rotherham
Mars 74 George Duff 29 69 Belleisle 74 William Hargood 33 93 Tonnant 80 Charles Tyler 26 50 Bellerophon 74 John Cooke 27 133 Colossus 74 J.N.  Morris 40 160 Achille 74 Richard King 13 59 Polyphemus 64 Robert Redmill 2 4 Revenge 74 R. Moorsom 28 51 Swiftsure 74 W.G.  Rutherford 9 7 Defence 74 George Hope 7 29 Thunderer 74 Lieut.  J. Stockham 4 16 Prince 98 Richard Grindall —­ —­ Defiance 74 P.C.  Durham 17 53 Dreadnought 98 John Conn 7 26
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NOTE.—­Lieutenants Pilfold and Stockham were acting for Captains W. Brown and Lechmere, absent on Sir R. Calder’s trial; the Lieutenants, W.P.  Camby, of the Bellerophon, and W. Hannah, of the Mars, having their Captains killed, the whole of these officers, with Lieutenant Quillam, first of the Victory, were made Post immediately.

(B) A LIST OF THE COMBINED FLEET OF FRANCE AND SPAIN, SHOWING HOW THEY WERE DISPOSED OF.

1.  Spanish ship, San Ildefonso, 74 guns, Brigadier Don Joseph de Varga, sent to Gibraltar.

2.  Spanish ship, San Juan Nepomuceno, 74 guns, Brigadier Don Cosme Cherruca, sent to Gibraltar.

3.  Spanish ship, Bahama, 74 guns.  Brigadier Don A.D.  Galiano, sent to Gibraltar.

4.  French ship, Swiftsure, 74 guns, Monsieur Villemadrin, sent to Gibraltar.

5.  Spanish ship, Monarca, 74 guns, Don Teodoro Argumosa, wrecked off San Lucar.

6.  French ship, Fougeux, 74 guns, Monsieur Beaudouin, wrecked off Trafalgar, all perished, and 30 of the Temeraire’s men.

7.  French ship, Indomitable, 84 guns, Monsieur Hubart, wrecked off Rota, all perished, said to have had 1,500 men on board.

8.  French ship, Bucentaure, 80 guns, Admiral Villeneuve, Commander-in-Chief, Captains Prigny and Magendie, wrecked on the Porques, some of the crew saved.

9.  Spanish ship, San Francisco de Asis, 74 guns, Don Luis de Flores, wrecked near Rota.

10.  Spanish ship, El Rayo, 100 guns, Brigadier Don Henrique Macdonel, taken by Donegal, and wrecked near San Lucar.

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