HMS "Leviathan"

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HMS San Fiorenzo (38), Cptn. Sir H. Burrard Neale, and HMS Nymphe (36) captured French frigate Resistance (40) and corvette Constance (22) off Brest. HMS Southampton (32), Cptn. James Gilchrist,and HMS Melampe (36), Cptn. William Hotham, took French frigate Danae (40) in the North Sea John Morris Thompson, 32, HMS Conqueror, Master’s mate. Quartermaster 1805, wages paid to wife Mary, 1807, Plymouth, Thomas Rees, 28, AB, HMS Africa, 1805, was at Trafalgar, from Ceres, substitute, 1808-9, rank: cooper,died 9 Jan 1809. Argonaut, hospital ship. The prisoners were herded together amidships and spent their time in gambling, often with tragic results, or in making bone-ship models…

Unite was a 40-gun Fifth-rate captured from the French in 1793. She was taken into service as HMS Imperieuse and was renamed Unite in 1803. She was on harbour service from 1832 and was broken up in 1858. HMS Penguin (20), Cptn. William Harris, taken and destroyed by Malicieuse (32) and Opale (32) near the Bayona Islands.While Queen Elizabeth is now fully operational, her 65,000-tonne younger sister has trials and tests to complete first. A circumstance occurred during the action, which so strongly marks the invincible spirit of British seamen, when engaging the enemies of their country, that I cannot resist the pleasure I have in making it known to their Lordships; the Temeraire was boarded by accident, or design, by a French ship on one side, and a Spaniard on the other; the contest was vigorous, but, in the end, the combined ensigns were torn from the poop, and the British hoisted in their places.

John Webb, 38, Quartermaster’s mate, Alveston, Glos, HMS Achille, 1804-14. died HMS Achille at Rio de Janeiro, 20 Sept 1814. The Success was not the only prison hulk at anchor in Hobson’s Bay; she was joined by the President, Lysander, Sacramento and Deborah , to cope with Australia’s overflowing prison population. The Success , however, was notable for the ‘brutalities’ enacted on board, with prisoners subject to punishment by the dreaded cat-of-nine tails, with some receiving ‘as many as 100 lashes…with this hellish device.’ Last Naval action of the American Revolution. Continental frigate Alliance(36), departed Havana with companion ship Due de Lauzun carrying money for Congress. South of Cape Canaveral, Florida, she sighted three enemy warships closing in. To protect Due de Lauzen, Barry placed Alliance between the vessel and HMS Sibyl (28), Cptn. James Vashon. After being damaged in battle, Sibyl returned to enemy warships that had not joined in the battle. Edward Kingston, 19, Ord Seaman, HMS Dreadnought, “late Plymouth Hospital”, was at Trafalgar, (TR “Dreadnought”)Then she will then head to the south west coast for an intensive period of Basic Operational Sea Training, establishing her lethality and ability to sustain operations as a cornerstone of a modern, ready and global Royal Navy. The second in command will, in all possible things, direct the movements of his line, by keeping them as compact as the nature of the circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line, as their rallying point ; but, in case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.

HMS Anson (64), HMS Galatea (32), Cptn. Richard Keats,and consorts under Sir John Borlase Warren engaged with French convoycaptured L'Etoile (30),one of five French frigates in escort of a provision fleet of 70 sail. Corbett, Julian (1997). Naval Operations. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol.II (reprint of the 1929 seconded.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum in association with the Battery Press. ISBN 1-870423-74-7. Henry Powell, Pte, P18, aged 22, On “Victory” at Trafalgar. 21 May 1803, Zealand, 15 January 1806, Chatham HQ HMS Hirondelle (16), LtSkinner, and boats of HMS Glatton (56), Cptn. Thomas Seccombe, cut out a Turkish corvette (10) from theport of Sigri. HMS Yarmouth (64), Cptn. Vincent, was engaged byContinental frigate Randolph(32),Cptn. Nicholas Biddle, which exploded, killing all but 4 of her 315 man crew.Samuel Randall, 23, AB, Bath, HMS Ajax: at Trafalgar. Discharged 25 Oct 1805 Sent in the launch to assist the St Augustine Spanish Prize the boat broke a drift from the ship in a very boisterous night and the men were either lost or made prisoners probably the former. In September 1907, Maurice Downey for the Weekly Irish Timeswrote about ‘ Britain’s Last Convict Ship‘ the Success, which was then at anchor in the River Liffey. He observes how: John Whiting, Pte, 19, Shepton Mallet, HMS Britannia, allotment from wages made to mother, 1804-5, at Trafalgar (TR) Captain James Cottell/Cottle, 2nd Lieut, RM, 1798, 1st Lieut, 1804. HMS Tonnant, at Trafalgar. Retired Half pay, 1835, died Bedminster 1842. Enter Commander Robert Markready, an old-school career Navy officer, who is tasked, as ship's commander and second only to the Captain, with gelling together those two thousand men, getting them to a peak of efficiency, and making Leviathan into a ship, and a ship's company, to be proud of. He sets about his task with a mixture of his long Navy experience, and some astute persuasion and diplomacy - but also a tendency not to truly understand people, and to get things dead wrong in his one-to-one dealings with people. He discovers there are two Royal Navies. The one he joined in the late 1930's and fought WW2 in. And the new Navy of the 1960's, which inevitably reflects the socially more liberal, questioning and permissive 1960's. An old-time "fish-head" with no previous service in carriers, Markready realises too late that his utter inability to understand pilots and aircrew, and the way he progressively alienates young pilots of The '60s' generation with his The '30s outlook and wartime understanding of the Navy, is going to destroy both his seagoing career and his future prospects in the navy.

Simeon Moon, 25, volunteer, AB, 1803, HMS Utrecht, 1803-6, HMS “Victory”. Wounded at Trafalgar. Discharged 31.1.1806, “unserviceable”. In 1785, John was apprenticed for seven years to Captain William Usher, a Newcastle master mariner. A curio – interesting indeed; but her weather-worn face and draggled appearance tell us too plainly that she belonged to another age than ours. She has lived her life, done the duty allotted to her; pity it is she cannot be left in peace.Howe was full of praise for Seymour and his ship and singled them out in his report to the Admiralty, written on 21st June. Howe wrote: A ‘fine, hale old man,’ who had robbed ‘no fewer than 114 persons during’ his life of crime (although he was ‘especially polite’ to women), Power was a well-behaved prisoner and was released at the end of his sentence.