HMS "Leviathan"

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Isaac Chandler, Pte, Melksham, Wilts. HMS Euralyus, allotment made to wife, from wages, from Wootton under edge, wife have already died. By 6pm it was all over. The Royal Navy had achieved a stunning victory. Of the 33 enemy ships of the line, 18 had been captured and one, the French Achille of 74 guns (not to be confused with the British 74 gun ship of the same name), had caught fire and exploded with the loss of most of her crew. The British had not lost a single ship. The news was tempered by the death of Lord Nelson. He had been shot and had died of his wound some three hours later. Meanwhile, ‘strictest discipline is maintained on board the hulks,’ with ‘extreme cleanliness enforced.’ Rations onboard the hulks were as follows:

John Fry, 21, Landsman, HMS Spartiate, 1803 “substitute for James Thompson, United Brothers, Resolve” As part of the advances in the treatment of diseases, ships arriving in the UK from the tropics were required to be quarantined until they could be declared free of disease. Although HMS Leviathan had arrived off Portsmouth on 2nd September 1814, it was to be a further four days until a thorough inspection of the ship enable her to be declared disease free and released from quarantine. Corbett, Julian (1997). Naval Operations. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol.II (reprint of the 1929 seconded.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum in association with the Battery Press. ISBN 1-870423-74-7. Warrior was a 74-gun Third-rate ship of the line launched in 1781. She became a receiving ship after 1818, a prison hulk after 1840, and was broken up in 1857.

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Antelope was a 50-gun Fourth-rate launched in 1802. She was used as a troopship from 1818, was placed on harbour service from 1824 and was broken up in 1845. John Morris Thompson, 32, HMS Conqueror, Master’s mate. Quartermaster 1805, wages paid to wife Mary, 1807, Plymouth, Garneray went on to give‘a lurid description of life on board’ the hulk Protée , comparing the hulk to ‘an immense sarcophagus.’ He describes how the prisoners ‘wore a suit of yellow material, stamped with the T.O. of the Transport Office,’ and how: Chesneau, Roger & Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds. (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.

Leven was launched in 1813 at Ipswich. She became a hospital ship in 1827 and then a prison hulk at Chatham. She became a receiving ship at Limehouse in 1842 and was broken up in 1848. Vengeance was a 74-gun third rate launched in 1774. She became a prison ship in 1808 and was broken up in 1816. HMS Milford (28), Cptn. Robert Mann (Killed in Action),took privateer La Gloire (16) inthe Bay of BiscayJacob Capell, Pte, 27, Queen Charlton, Som, HMS Victory, 1803-6, at Trafalgar, paid off Chatham, 1806, (TR “Victory”) Britannia and Eve, 1 August 1936, recalls the arrival of the so-called ‘First Fleet’ to Botany Bay, the first ship Supply arriving in January of 1788. The ‘First Fleet’ would become: Passed-Over Promotion: The officer complement of a troubled ship become discontented, demoralised and restless that two promotion lists have been issued by the Admiralty - and both have completely missed any recognition or promotion for Leviathan's officers. The ship's chaplain remarks, as Easter is approaching, that at least we now know the true meaning of Passover. The Collective Groan and Lame Pun Reaction go some way to restoring good spirits. Being passed over for promotion is also foreshadowing what eventually happens to Markready as he finally fails on board the ship - he eventually receives a face-saving promotion but this is at the expense of his knowing he will never go to sea again and the rest of his service before retirement will be shore-based. William Ford, Pte, 26 St Stephen’s, Bristol, HMS Victory at Trafalgar. 18 April 1803, Winchelsea, 15 January 1806, Chatham HQ He would have been at the wheel throughout the battle and attending to other actions such as sending out damage parties, “ said Ian.

By this time, the war against France was over. After suffering a number of catastrophic defeats, Napoleon had abdicated on 6th April 1814 and had been exiled to the Isle of Elba. The Allies of the Sixth Coalition (comprised of many nations, but mostly various German, and Italian kingdoms, plus Britain, Sweden, Russia and others) had re-installed the French Monarchy under King Louis XVIII. The war was formally ended by the Treaty of Fontainebleu, signed on 11th April 1814. The ending of the war in Europe meant that the British were able to divert resources to defend Canada against invasion by the Americans, because despite the coming of peace in Europe, the war between Britain and the Americans was rumbling on. The Success was not the only prison hulk at anchor in Hobson’s Bay; she was joined by the President, Lysander, Sacramento and Deborah , to cope with Australia’s overflowing prison population. The Success , however, was notable for the ‘brutalities’ enacted on board, with prisoners subject to punishment by the dreaded cat-of-nine tails, with some receiving ‘as many as 100 lashes…with this hellish device.’ Thames was a 46 gun Fifth-rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a prison hulk in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863. On 18th September 1827, an inquest was held aboard the Leviathan Hulk. John Whitehouse, a prisoner, had been killed by falling timber. The inquest returned a verdict of accidental death. Just because HMS Prince of Wales has been alongside throughout the Covid-19 epidemic it doesn’t mean that we, the Royal Navy and industry, haven’t been phenomenally busy preparing her for her next spell at sea.His parents, George and Dorothy, ran the Goat Inn on nearby Bottle Bank in Gateshead, where the Hilton Hotel now stands. The second in command will, in all possible things, direct the movements of his line, by keeping them as compact as the nature of the circumstances will admit. Captains are to look to their particular line, as their rallying point ; but, in case signals cannot be seen or clearly understood, no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of an enemy.