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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 !)