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Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

Chapter 26: INDEX
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A collection of candid, anecdotal recollections by a naval officer that privileges social portraiture over formal history, depicting shipboard life through sketches of comrades, messroom culture, and everyday incidents. The narrative emphasizes coarse language, habitual heavy drinking, practical joking, hazing, and occasional quarrels that sometimes led to courts-martial, while also offering temperate judgments of superiors and peers. Rather than focusing on battles, it records mundane routines, personal temperaments, and attitudes toward discipline, and reflects on gradual changes in manners and conduct within the service.

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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
    • his civility, 99;
    • a brave officer, 100;
    • court martial on, 101;
    • strict disciplinarian, 107;
    • ship in high order, 108;
    • his courtesy, 109, 113
  • Calvi, siege of, 147
  • Came, Charles, midshipman, 119
  • Campbell, Duncan, assistant surgeon, 96
  • Campbell, George, captain, 144–5;
    • rear-admiral with Nelson off Toulon, 151,
    • 228, 232
  • 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;
    • a droll fellow, 113;
    • a narrow escape, 150–1;
    • smuggles six hundred dollars, 160–1;
    • settles a dispute at a dinner, 163–4, 167, 170
  • 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;
    • his boat-sailing, 195–6;
    • death, 196
  • Cold, severe, 178–9 and n., 181, 220–21
  • Cole, Richard, midshipman, 94
  • Collier, John, midshipman, pious when drunk, 149;
    • practical jokes on, 149, 153
  • 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;
    • dies, 144;
    • respect shown by the seamen, 144;
    • his knighthood, 151
  • 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;
    • description of, 102;
    • anecdotes of, 102–7, 115
  • Culverhouse, John, signal lieutenant, 66 and n.;
    • as Diomede, 84;
    • his song, ib.;
    • captain, drowned, 91
  • 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;
    • his character, 60;
    • commanded the Lion at the capture of the William Tell, 62
  • 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;
    • anecdotes of, 47;
    • dog thrown overboard, 241–2
  • 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;
    • cheers up Gardner at his examination, 173;
    • captain of Marlborough, 117;
    • committed suicide, 117;
    • captain of Medusa, 191
  • Edgar, Alexander, captain, 41
  • Edgar, Thomas, lieutenant, in charge of a merchantman, 159–60;
    • had sailed round the world with Cook, 163, 167–70
  • 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;
    • duties at, 253;
    • severe gales, 254;
    • cockney’s visit to, 255–6;
    • smugglers, 258–9;
    • Gardner’s friends there, 259 seq.;
    • paid off, 263
  • 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;
    • draws caricatures, 79;
    • is ruined by Molloy, 80;
    • verse by, 88, 92
  • 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;
    • a ‘transcendent blackguard,’ 88, 94
  • 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;
    • 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
  • Peterson, Edmund, surgeon, 53
  • Peyton, Joseph, rear-admiral, 73, 90;
  • 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;
    • 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;
    • 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;
    • 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;
    • 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.;
    • 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;
  • 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;
  • 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;
    • 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;
  • 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