| Naval history of Great Britain - Vol. IV
by
William James |
1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar |
79 |
that were captured, not one has her loss stated in the British official account ; and neither the French nor the Spaniards, except in the case of the Redoutable and of one or two Spanish ships, have published any returns. It is therefore impossible for us to do more than point to the effects of the British shot upon the majority of the French and Spanish ships, deducible from the state of their masts and rigging already so fully described ; leaving it to be inferred, that the antagonist of a British ship seldom has her masts shot away, until her hull has been greatly shattered, and a large proportion of her crew killed or disabled.
While the British ships are securing their prizes, and getting the latter and themselves into a state to keep the sea ; and while the more fortunate of the French and Spanish ships are profiting by the occasion to effect their escape from the scene of so much disaster, we will conduct the reader to the cockpit of the Victory,
Ships |
Loss |
|
|
Bowsprit, lower and top masts and their yards |
First lieutenants |
Weather column |
Kill. |
Tot. |
Tot. |
Shot away |
Left tottering |
|
Victory |
57 |
102 |
159 |
Mizen topmast |
Mizenmast |
John Quilliam |
Edward Williams |
Andrew King |
John Yule |
Téméraire |
47 |
76 |
123 |
Main & head of mizenmasts, foretopsail & fore yds. |
|
Thomas Kennedy |
Neptune |
10 |
34 |
44 |
|
|
George Acklom |
Leviathan |
4 |
22 |
26 |
Mizentopsail yard |
|
Eyles Mounsher |
Britannia |
10 |
42 |
52 |
|
|
Arthur Atchison |
Conqueror |
3 |
9 |
12 |
Mizen topmast |
|
James Couch. |
Africa |
18 |
44 |
62 |
Maintopsail yard |
All three lower masts |
John Smith |
Agamemnon |
2 |
8 |
10 |
|
|
Hugh Cook |
Ajax |
2 |
9 |
11 |
|
|
Jerem. Brown |
Orion |
1 |
23 |
24 |
Maintopsail yard |
|
Richard Croft. |
Minotaur |
3 |
22 |
25 |
Foretopsail yard |
|
James Stuart |
Spartiate |
3 |
20 |
23 |
|
Main topmast |
John M'Kerlie. |
Lee column |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Royal-Sovereign |
47 |
94 |
141 |
Main and mizen masts and fore topsail yard |
Foremast |
John Ellis. |
William Stephens. |
Belleisle |
33 |
93 |
12 |
All three masts & bowsprit & bowsprit |
|
Thomas Fife |
Mars |
29 |
69 |
98 |
Main topmast and spanker-boom. |
Foremast |
Benjamin Patey. |
Tonnant |
26 |
50 |
76 |
Three topmasts & |
|
John Bedford |
Bellerophon |
27 |
123 |
150 |
Main & miz. topmasts |
Fore topmast |
Edward F Edmund Thomas |
Colossus |
40 |
160 |
200 |
Mizenmast |
Fore & main masts |
Wm. W Daniel |
Achille |
13 |
59 |
72 |
|
|
Thos. Rd. Toker |
Dreadnought |
7 |
26 |
33 |
Maintopsail yard |
|
John Clavell |
Polyphemus |
2 |
4 |
6 |
|
|
George, Mowbray |
Revenge |
28 |
51 |
79 |
|
|
Lewis Hole |
Swiftsure |
9 |
8 |
17 |
Mizen Topmast |
|
James Lilburne |
Defiance |
17 |
53 |
70 |
|
|
William Hellard. |
Thunderer |
4 |
12 |
16 |
|
|
John Clark. |
Defence |
7 |
29 |
36 |
|
|
James Green. |
Prince |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
William Godfrey. |
Total |
449 |
1241 |
1690 |
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