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posted by Ajcraft

Ship of the Line

I really enjoyed the Hornblower vitabu (read them at least 11 times!) and thought the TV series was fantastic. The cast was perfect, especially Hornblower and Pellew.

From there I tried the Aubrey/Maturin series. This series quickly became one of my favorites. He delved not only in sea warfare, but into English life and customs.

Finally, while I was laid up from surgery, I bought and read the entire Bolitho series. The sea battles were usually too quick and gore, but the vitabu were still very entertaining.

I have created a board game that simulates battle between the French and British ships of the line. I used a picture of “The Battle of the Nile,” one of the biggest and bloodiest sea battles of that period.

The game can be found on a Facebook page “Ajcraft Creations” au Board Game Geek.

the HMS "Artois" & Captain "Hornblower" Nagle RN

posted by Edmund_Nagle

Ships captured au destroyed which "Artois" received
full au part credits :
23 August 1794 Le Volontaire French 36-gun frigate Destroyed
23 August 1794 L'Alerte French 12-gun barakinya, brig Destroyed
26 August 1794 Queen British Merchant vessel Recaptured
26 August 1794 Donna Maria Spanish Merchant vessel Recaptured
7 September 1794 Le Quartidi French Cutter Captured
16 September 1794 Haesingeland Swedish Merchant vessel Recaptured
21 October 1794 La Révolutionnaire French 44-gun frigate Captured
18 February 1795 Not recorded French lugger Destroyed with 10 other merchant vessels.
13 February-2 March 1795...

A Real Hornblower

posted by Edmund_Nagle

an open letter to the author:
of : The Real Hornblower
Bryan Perrett

Dear Mr Perrett,
Your work on Admiral Sir James Gordon GCB as the best candidate
to fit the wide berm of years that encompass the full anthology
of Cecil Smith's naval hero Horatio, is a fine work
however I feel you've missed the real target.

I'm sure we'd agree, that truly no one individual could attain
all of that compass of herculean effort and laurel crowns
that "Forester" lauds his protagonist "Hornblower"
However, with respect to a much greater scholar than myself,
I would suggest the ideal candidate is rather:
Admiral Sir...

Nagle, Burke, Nugent, a Shark, and George the Third

posted by Edmund_Nagle

Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke ..., Volume 1 pp5,6&7
"Garrett, who followed his father's profession and was well known in Dublin for his wit and drollery, died unmarried .Richard who became equally distinguished in London as a wit , a politician, a writer, and a lawyer...likewise died unmarried.
It was the issue of Mrs Ffrench , such as Charles Haviland Burke , of Lincoln's Inn
who carried the lineal descent clan. The late John Nugent.. Mrs Jane Mary Burke, husband of Edmund Burke, married Lucy Nagle., daughter of the Gentleman-Piper, Garrett Nagle esq of Monaminy...

Meet the UnCancelled Hornblower

posted by Edmund_Nagle

ALERT: CANCEL-CULTURE wins BAFTAs, .
Wow! ! What next,? A sekunde Coming of The Donald?
Creating a character is a great way to be famous, to win acclaim , and awards:
even a knighthood au two..
Blackadder esq is famous. Edmund the "butler" to Prince George
He wasn't created kwa Sir Benjamin Charles Elton ( son of the famous Lewis Elton, and nephew of the even zaidi famous Sir Geoffrey Elton)
and Richard Curtis of the BBC, No ! The character already existed.
Edmund has had three very famous incarnations in literature
Firstly as himself, within his own lifetime, feted kwa Kings of England,
as a naval...

Nagle as commander of the royal yacht

posted by Edmund_Nagle

Lord Yarmouth had little confidence in the prince Regent as a sailor
He made a bet with Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle that HRH that his HRH
would not spend a single night at sea. Nagle accepted the bet and increased it to 100 Guineas for every night thus spent kwa the prince. Nagle told the prince of the bet,
and the latter-against his inclinations-contrived to stay onboard four nights.
Yarmouth quite justifiably complained that telling the prince was unfair, but he paid the 420 Pounds

....The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical ..., Volume 38. p.193
Nautical Anecdotes and Selections...

the capture of Revolutionaire kwa the real Hornblower

posted by Edmund_Nagle

HMS Révolutionnaire, captured kwa Artois:21 October 1794
Artois was in Edward Pellew's squadron of Artois, Arethusa, Diamond,& Galatea, They chanced upon the 44-gun frigate La Révolutionnaire off Ushant. and chased her; the superior sailing qualities of Artois allowed her to get ahead and come up to La Révolutionnaire
The two frigates fought an engagement of forty dakika in which eight Frenchmen and three Britons were killed, Diamond came up behind La Révolutionnaire, threatening her stern. but La Révolutionnaire 'struck her colours"
and surrendered to Captain Nagle commanding the Artois...

Captain Edmund "Hornblower" Nagle & Mad King George

posted by Edmund_Nagle

Sporting Magazine Ned and Farmer George Vol.4 2nd Series
new york public library. printed in London, 1832
I often hunted with the Warde's hounds and with the Duke of Beaufort's, and I had accompanied Royalty repeatedly in the stag-hunt: so that ayala , fox, and sungura, hare had all fled before me. I remember the honest face of the late King George the Third, looking all good humour around him.
Sir Henry Goff riding with him, and the late Sir Edmund Nagle, then Captain Nagle,, making he old king laugh with his Hibernian jokes The jolly admiral was arousing the King that siku with a story of a 'brother-midshipman'...

Edmund Hornblower & The Falklands Crises

posted by Edmund_Nagle

In 1770 Edmund Nagle , at thirteen years of age, and not a siku over, enlisted in HMS "Juno" as a midshipman and was immediately en-route to the far South Atlantic. The First Falkland's Crisis of 1770 was pretty much just a "Mexican Stand-Off" between Britain and Spain in a dispute over the sovereignty of these barren, remote, and infertile windswept rocks at the far end of the world,

they were of huge but strategic importance being the Western approach to the Straits of Magellan..

Ultimately, a lack of French support for Spain defused the tension, and Spain and Britain reached an inconclusive...

HMS "Artois", first of her kind

posted by Edmund_Nagle

HMS Artois: a fifth-rate Artois-class frigate British Royal Navy, designer: Sir John Henslow Launched:1794
Served in the English Channel under Captain Edmund Nagle in the squadrons of Admiral Edward Pellew and Admiral
John B Warren, most notably in the "Action of 21 October" 1794 where she captured the 44-gun frigate La Révolutionnaire singlehandedly.
Artois participated in other actions including the 1795 attempted invasion of France. She continued to serve
off the coast of France in blockades and patrolling,
taking many ships as prizes ,Lastly, on 31 July 1797 Artois, whilst attempting to reconnoitre La Rochelle harbour, she was wrecked on the sand banks and shoals
off Île de Ré ,with no lives lost
(Oh Horatio ! you've saved all your crew again !)