Peake), three midshipmen (William Rivers, George Augustus Westphal, and Richard Bulkeley), 59 seamen, and nine marines wounded. This was according to the official account ; but 27 additional wounded men reported themselves to the surgeon after the returns had been drawn up. * Among this number was included the boatswain, William Willmet ; who, although painfully wounded in the thigh, did not quit his quarters.

The damages of the T�m�raire were scarcely less than those of the Victory. The former had her main topmast, the head of her mizenmast, her fore yard, and her fore and main topsailyards shot away, her fore and main masts so wounded as to render them unfit to carry sail, and her bowsprit shot through in several places. Her rigging of every sort was cut to pieces, and her starboard cathead and bumpkin were shot away ; also the head of her rudder at the water's edge, by the fire of the Redoutable, while rounding the latter's stern. Eight feet of the starboard side of the lower deck abreast of the mainmast was also stove in, and the whole of her quartergalleries on both sides were carried away by the two ships that had run foul of her.

The T�m�raire's loss amounted to one captain and one lieutenant of marines (Simeon Busigny and John Kingston), her carpenter (Lewis Oades), one midshipman (William Pitts), 35 seamen, and eight marines killed, and one lieutenant (James Mould), one lieutenant of marines (Samuel J. Payne), her boatswain (John Brooks), one master's mate (Francis S. Price), one midshipman (John Eastman), 59 seamen, and 12 marines wounded. A part of this heavy loss in killed and wounded arose from the following accident. A stink-pot thrown from the Redoutable entered the powder-screen on the quarterdeck, and caused a destructive explosion upon the main deck. Had it not, indeed, been for the presence of mind of the master at arms, John Toohig, who was quartered in the light-room, the fire would have communicated to the after magazine, and probably have occasioned the loss not only of the T�m�raire, but of the ships lashed to her.

The damages and loss of the Redoutable, jammed as she haul been betwixt two such formidable antagonists, might well be severe. The fall of her main and mizen masts has already been stated : her fore topmast and bowsprit shared the same fate. Her rudder was destroyed, and her hull shot through in every direction, above and below water. An 18-pounder gun, and a 36-pounder carronade near the stern, had burst, and 20 of her guns, including nine low-deckers on the side opposite to the Victory, lay dismounted. Out of a crew of 643, the Redoutable had, according- to the French official returns, 300 killed and 222 wounded including nearly the whole of her officers. Neither the damage nor the loss of the Fougueux was by any mean

*  Beatty's Narrative, P 61

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