INDEX
- Adair, C. H., rear-admiral, commanding the reserve in the Medway, 179
- Adams, Buck, jail-keeper, 16
- Adams, Francis, carpenter, 124
- Alcot, John, captain’s clerk, 55
- Alexander, Emperor of Russia, 101
- Allardice, Titus, midshipman, died insane, 93;
- invalided home, 151
- Allen, Henry, midshipman, 94;
- commander, hanged, ib.
- Allen, Thomas, midshipman, put on shore in the mutiny, 193;
- drowned, 202
- Anderson, Robert, surgeon of the Panther, 39
- Anderson, Robert, surgeon of the Hind, ‘Benjamin Bullock the Madman,’ 194–5; 201
- Anguin, Martin, seaman, falls from aloft, 32
- Anstruther, Philip, midshipman, 119
- Apple pies, assistant surgeon dines on, 223
- Archbold, William, midshipman, 119
- Archdale, G. J., midshipman, 249
- Atkins, Robert, midshipman, 249
- Augustus Frederick, Prince (Duke of Sussex), 139
- Ayscough, captain 208
- Back-strapped, 26 n.
- Badcock, Benjamin, midshipman, drowned, 202
- Baldwin, captain of marines, 115
- Ball, A., captain, 192
- Bantry Bay, expedition to, 188 n.
- Barber, William, midshipman, 153
- Barker, William, lieutenant of marines, 13
- Barrett, John, midshipman, 123, 125
- Barrington, the Hon. Samuel, admiral, 12, 98–9, 112
- Barton, Sir John, treasurer of Queen’s household, 18
- Bastia, siege and surrender of, due to seamen and marines, 148
- Bates, alderman, of Waterford, 221
- Bates, Gardner’s cousin, entertains the officers of the Blonde, 221
- Batt, Henry, midshipman, 54
- Batt, John, midshipman, 125
- Bazely, John, port admiral in the Downs, 190
- Bazely, John, captain, letter from, 191;
- Beauclerk, Lord Amelius, midshipman, 55, 116;
- captain, 131
- Bedford, William, lieutenant, 91, 122–4
- Beer, spruce, 42 and n.;
- man falls into copper of, 43
- Belfry, Knight of the, 68 and n.
- Bell, John, mate of the hold, is painted like an ancient Briton, 149, 153
- Bennet, Charles, midshipman, 119
- Berkeley, the Hon. G. C., captain, 22, 64
- Bertie, Thomas, captain, 229, 232
- Biggery, Robert, carpenter, 202
- Bingham, Edward, midshipman, 17
- Bingham, J., midshipman, 17
- Bingham, Robert, chaplain, 17
- Bisset, Charles, midshipman, his dog, 47, 53
- Blackford, John, boatswain, 224
- Blackford, William, 225
- Black pieces = muskets, 150
- Blake, John, midshipman, 14
- Bligh, George Millar, lieutenant, 245, 247
- Bligh, John, captain, 229
- Bluet, George Rule, midshipman, curious love token, 92
- Bone, Johnny, boatswain, devil of a fellow at cap-a-bar, 70–1, 96
- Bonny Broom, her ghostly boatswain, 4
- Boulogne, camp at, 253 n.
- Bourmaster, John, captain, ‘an honour to the navy,’ 113;
- Bowen, Griffith, lieutenant’s servant, 114
- Bowen, Richard, signal midshipman, 116
- Bowen, Thomas, lieutenant, 114
- Bowler, William, surgeon, R.N., 18
- Boyes, George T. H., vice-admiral, director of transports, 265
- Boyles, C., captain, 227, 229
- Boys boxing during battle, 31
- Brace, Edward, midshipman, 95
- Bradby, Borromy, midshipman, 54
- Bradby, Daniel, rated as captain’s servant, 54
- Bradby, James, captain, 41, 52
- Bradby, Matthew Barton, captain’s servant, 54
- Braham, singer, 182 n.
- Brander, James, boatswain, 39
- Brett, William, lieutenant, 170
- Brice, lieutenant, court martial on, 213
- Bricknell, midshipman, ugly and vain, 171
- Bridport, Lord, admiral, 114, 188, 190–1
- Bridsdale, Richard, lieutenant, 52
- Briggs, lieutenant, encourages the seamen, 174 n.
- Briggs, John, assistant surgeon, 154
- Brine, Augustus, midshipman, 117
- Brisbane, Charles, captain, 213, 228
- Brock, Philip, midshipman, 54
- Brooks, Francis, 38
- Browell, Mr., 15
- Brown, Maurice, midshipman, 92
- Brown, Simeon, carpenter, 53
- Brown, William, midshipman, 93
- Browne, P., midshipman, 117
- Bruce, John, midshipman, 117
- Buchan, Charles, purser, his foraging expedition, 4–5, 8, 91
- Buffalmaco, painter, fresco of The Last Judgment attributed to, 140
- Bull, Mr., a man of colour, 232
- Buller, John, midshipman, 118
- Bullock, William, lieutenant, 151
- Burdon, George, captain, 206
- Bush, William, midshipman, 117
- Bustard, Robert, mate, 115
- Butcher, Samuel, midshipman, 124
- Byron, the Hon. John, vice-admiral, 11–12
- Cadiz, smuggling of dollars at, 160–1;
- the Alameda, 161
- Calder, Mrs., fond of boat-sailing, 109
- Calder, Robert, captain, his harshness, 97, 98;
- Calvi, siege of, 147
- Came, Charles, midshipman, 119
- Campbell, Duncan, assistant surgeon, 96
- Campbell, George, captain, 144–5;
- Campbell, John, vice-admiral, 41, 44, 52
- Campbell, Luke, midshipman, does duty as schoolmaster, 39
- Campbell, Majoribanks, midshipman, 54
- Cannadey, Moses, midshipman, 124
- Cap-a-bar, note on, 70
- Carden, J. S., midshipman, 84;
- captain of the Macedonian, 95
- Carpenter, James, lieutenant, 114
- Carroll, assistant surgeon, 239
- Carter, lieutenant, 41
- Carter, Charles, lieutenant, 115
- Carter, Richard, 18
- Carthage, encounter with Turks at, 133;
- visit to ruins of, 133–4
- Castlereagh, Lord, Lancers or Prancers of, 210
- Caulfield, Edward, midshipman, 225
- Chantrell, William, lieutenant, his night orders, 109;
- Chaplain’s bet, 111–12
- Chatham, Lord, First Lord of the Admiralty, 80
- Chatterton, midshipman, 119
- Chest, John, midshipman, his chest, 120
- Chissell, John, master, an accomplished linguist, 171
- Chissell, Richard, midshipman, 171
- Christian, Sir Hugh Cloberry, rear-admiral, 64, 184
- Christian, Jonathan, midshipman, 116
- Chubb, clerk, drowned, 202
- Church, captain, 230
- Clark, George, midshipman, 118
- Clayton, captain, 174
- Cock, carpenter, 31, 39
- Cockerell, James, purser, 52
- Coet, W., midshipman, 18
- Coghlan, John Timothy, master, 183, 201;
- Cold, severe, 178–9 and n., 181, 220–21
- Cole, Richard, midshipman, 94
- Collier, John, midshipman, pious when drunk, 149;
- Collins, Augustus, midshipman, son of Sir John, 153
- Collins, Darby, drunken Irishman, his ingenious dog, 47;
- fights eleven men, 51
- Collins, Sir John, captain of the Berwick, 121, 126, 130–1, 133, 139;
- Colomb, admiral, his account of the French expedition to Bantry Bay, 188 n.
- Colours, wrong, hoisted, 189, 198
- Colpoys, Sir John, vice-admiral, his flag struck by the mutineers, 192
- Colquhoun, steward, sewn up in a bullock’s hide, 135
- Connell, Thomas, lieutenant, 39
- Conolly, John Bull, midshipman, 93, 118
- Constable, Love, lieutenant, ‘a devil of a tyrant,’ 122, 124
- Content, John, midshipman, 249
- Cook, Hugh, midshipman, 95
- Cooper, Robert, purser, 248
- Cornwallis, the Hon. William, admiral, 226, 233–4
- Correy, surgeon, 8
- Cosby, P., vice-admiral, 155, 160
- Courage, James, assistant surgeon, 171
- Court, contempt of, 199 n.
- Cowdray, John, carpenter, 7
- Crisp, writer, 55
- Crombey, assistant surgeon, 96
- Cromwell, Oliver, 245
- Crosbie, Robert, midshipman, 95
- Crugal, Spirit of, 78 and n.
- Crump, Mr., 162
- Crump, William, signalman, believes in witchcraft, 256–7
- Culmer, Billy, the oldest midshipman in the navy, 102;
- Culverhouse, John, signal lieutenant, 66 and n.;
- Cumberland, the Duke of, admiral, visits the Barfleur, 98
- Cunningham, Charles, captain, 131 and n.
- Curry, Richard, midshipman, 119
- Curtis, Sir Roger, anecdote of, 61
- Daddi, Nardo, fresco by, 141 n.
- Dalgleish, James, mate, 118
- Dalston, Sir John, captain of marines, 13
- Daniel, Robert Savage, lieutenant, killed at the battle of the Nile, 113, 115
- Danton, Richard, midshipman, pilot, 39
- Darby, H. D’E., captain, 228
- Davis, John, quartermaster, afterwards midshipman, 125
- Davis, mate, 93
- Dawe, Harry, lieutenant, 91
- Dawes, Richard, lieutenant, killed 1st June, 124
- Dawson, George, captain, court martial on, 73–4
- Dawson, Thomas, boatswain, 39
- Deacon, Henry, lieutenant, 45–6, 52
- Delafons, John, purser, 115
- Delafons, John, midshipman, 119
- Delafons, Thomas, midshipman, 119
- Dempster, Walter, midshipman, 153
- Derby, John, lieutenant, a droll fellow, 219–21, 224
- Derby, John, cook, 219
- Deserters attacked by wolves, 50
- Dickinson, Francis, midshipman, 125
- Dickinson, William, midshipman, 125
- Dickson, Archibald, admiral, 226
- Dixon, John W. T., midshipman, 117;
- captain, lost in the Apollo, 117
- Dixon, Manley, captain, 56;
- Dobbie, William Hugh, midshipman, 95
- Dobree, Daniel, lieutenant, 114;
- Dobree, Daniel, midshipman, 225
- Dodgson, John, surgeon, 152
- Dodwell, Brown, master’s mate, 53
- Dogs, seventy-five, in the Salisbury, 42;
- Dolling, John, lieutenant, 98, 113
- Doncaster, Charles, midshipman, died of yellow fever at Jamaica, 225
- Dorrel, Richard, lieutenant, 38
- Douglas, carpenter, 96
- Douglas, the Hon. Dunbar, midshipman, wonderful escape of, 117
- Douglas, J., captain, 22
- Dowdall, Edward, gunner, 53
- Downman, Hugh, midshipman, 94
- Dowsing, Jackson, lieutenant, 114
- Drake, Sir Francis, taught the people of Plymouth, 7
- Drake, Sir Francis Samuel, 38 n.
- Drake, Sir Francis William, vice-admiral, 22, 38 and n.
- Dubosc, French emigrant captain, 168
- Ducker, John, boatswain, 164–5, 171
- Ducks, attack on, 110–11
- Duckworth, Sir John Thomas, rear-admiral, 228, 230–1, 237
- Duff, Andrew, midshipman, 55
- Duff, captain, 229
- Duncan, Charles, master, 151–2
- Duncan, Lord, 71
- Dundas, captain, 229
- Dundas, general, at Bastia, 148
- Dunham, Robert, lieutenant, broke and reinstated, 202
- Dunn, Richard D., captain, 228
- Durban, William, midshipman, 118
- Durham, Philip Charles, lieutenant, 25 n., 114
- Dusautoy, lieutenant of marines, 62
- Dutchman, cargo of runaway, 208
- Eastwood, N. H., captain, chased by Billy Culmer, 102–3
- Eaton, Jack, mate, 117;
- Edgar, Alexander, captain, 41
- Edgar, Thomas, lieutenant, in charge of a merchantman, 159–60;
- Edgeworth, Henry, mate, 248
- Edmonds, Tom, midshipman, a delightful flute-player, 92
- Elliot, John, vice-admiral, 99;
- his able services, 112
- Elliot, Robert, midshipman, 93
- Elliot, William, midshipman, 55;
- lieutenant, 114
- Elliot, William, midshipman, 248
- Esperanto, early example of, 128
- Essington, captain, 227–8
- Everitt, afterwards Calmady, Charles Holmes, lieutenant, 8
- Eyles, C., captain, 228
- Fairlight, signal station, 109, 251–63;
- Fanshawe, Robert, commissioner at Plymouth, 197–8
- Faulknor, Jonathan, rear-admiral, 100;
- most able officer, 113
- Faulknor, Jonathan, jun., captain, 41, 188
- Faulknor, Samuel, captain, note on, 100
- Feary, Frank, midshipman, 92
- Fegan, sent on board the Conquistador by the Bow Street magistrate, 112, 214;
- song by 214–15
- Field, Augustus John, lieutenant of marines, draws a long bow, 244;
- Fielding, Henry, novelist, 215 n.
- Fielding, Sir John, the blind magistrate, 214–15 n.
- Finch, the Hon. Seymour, captain, 22
- Fireworks, manufacture of, in front of a fire, 198
- Flag, insult to the English, 131
- Flanagan, clerk (afterwards purser), 40
- Flemming, boatswain, broke by court martial, 202
- Flinders, mate, well acquainted with ancient history, 123
- Flood, Patrick, midshipman, reads the Bible, 75;
- Floyd, Thomas, lieutenant, 13
- Flying Dutchman has a roving commission, 199
- Foley, T., captain, 229
- Follie, John, boatswain, 248
- Foote, John Stode, chaplain, 14
- Foote, Samuel, actor, 34 n.
- Forrester, Ben, captain of marines, 30, 31, 38
- Forster, Edward, midshipman, a Hercules, 39
- Forton prison, Frenchmen sent to, 16
- Foularton, Henry, midshipman, his keg of gin, 94
- Foularton, John, midshipman, court martial on, 32, 39
- Fraser, Alexander, lieutenant (afterwards admiral), 31, 38
- Fraser, James, gunner, 39
- Frederick, T. L., captain, 131
- Freeburn, Archibald, gunner, 202
- Fremantle, captain, 227, 229
- French officers, prisoners on board La Favorite, 200;
- claim their rank in the navy, ib.;
- claim refused, ib.;
- sent to Mill Prison, ib.;
- Gardner’s generosity to, 201
- French prisoners, threatened rising of, 159;
- left at Gibraltar, 170
- French Royalists on board Gorgon, 170
- French seamanship, an instance of good, 186
- Frost, ‘Hard Frost,’ midshipman, is ‘laid out,’ 87;
- Fuller, William, surgeon, 243, 248
- Gale, legendary commodore, 69, 87
- Galloway, James, midshipman, 153
- Galton, midshipman, 116
- Gardner, Alan, rear-admiral, 121;
- his service, 123
- Gardner, the Hon. A. H., captain, 229
- Gardner, wrote in the office: no relation of the author, 96
- Gardner, Francis Geary, captain, 3, 8, 10–13, 19
- Gardner, James, captain, 37
- Gardner, Mrs. James, death of, 37
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Houghton, Charles, midshipman, 225
- Houghton, Daniel, major, the African traveller, 225
- Houghton, Frederick, midshipman, drowned, 225
- Howe, Lord, admiral, 21, 25;
- Huish, Robert, purser, his terror in a boat, 219–20, 224
- Humphries, Christopher, boatswain, 202
- Hungerford, Emanuel, lieutenant, an amusing fellow, 238;
- Hunt, Peter, midshipman, a droll fellow, 125
- Hutchins, Henry, purser, 13
- Hutchinson, Edward, mate, 152
- Hutt, John, captain, 121;
- 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;
- 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;
- Keppel, the Hon. Augustus (afterwards Lord), admiral, 10, 11
- Key, John, midshipman, 118;
- Kiel, John, midshipman, went on shore without leave, 71;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Moore, James, gunner, 202
- Morgan, lieutenant, his ugliness, 76–7
- Morgan, Ben, midshipman, victim of bullying, 44;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Bedford, 11
- Bellerophon, 113, 119, 229
- Bellona, 119, 229, 232
- Berwick, Gardner’s service in, 126–54;
- Bienfaisant, 104
- Blanche, loss of, 208
- Blenheim, 33, 226
- Blonde, Gardner’s service in, 203–25;
- Bonetta, sloop, loss of, 230
- Boreas, Gardner borne in, 3–9;
- Bristol, 25
- Britannia, 94, 145
- Brunswick, Gardner’s service in, 226–49;
- Buffalo, 25, 27–9;
- 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;
- 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;
- Elephant, 227–8, 232
- Endymion, 72–3
- Etna, 12
- Europa, 205, 222
- Euryalus, 202
- Fame, 11
- Favorite, Fr. privateer, captured, 188;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Orion, 229, 233
- Overyssel, 203 n.
- Pallas, formerly Minerva, 213
- Panther, Gardner’s service in, 19–40;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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.;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Wardrope, David, surgeon, court martial on, 73–4
- Watson, boatswain, rope’s ends the schoolmaster, 77;
- 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;
- 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;
- 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;
- Yelland, William, carpenter, 236, 248
- Yetts, John, lieutenant, his strange dress and manners, 70;
- 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