The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4

Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era

Peter Hore

• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781526759504
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526759511
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: British History
• Index: History

This naval history anthology explores the world of Lord Nelson, his era and contemporaries, with expert articles and sumptuous illustrations.
 
An annual publication of the 1805 Club, The Trafalgar Chronicle is dedicated to new research about naval history in the Georgian Era. Its central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of October 21st, 1805, involving British, French and Spanish ships, and some 30,000 men of a score of nations.
 
This edition focuses on the friends and contemporaries of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy. It also explores technical and scientific changes that took place at the turn of the eighteenth century. Contributions include an article by former US Navy Secretary John Lehman on Stephen Decatur and another by Professor John Hattendorf on Admiral Sir John Gambier. It also includes the observations of Professor Benjamin Silliman, an American scientist who visited Britain in 1805.
 
Other characters who appear are 'Jack Punch' Perkins, the first black officer in the Royal Navy; William Pringle Green, who was so critical of the results at Trafalgar; and the two Loyalist Richard Bulkeleys, father and son, who served with Nelson at the beginning and at the end of his career. Two articles on technology in the Georgian navy address the surprising developments of the carronade and ballooning in the age of Nelson.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• President’s Foreword – Admiral Sir Jonathon Band
• Editor’s Foreword – Peter Hore
• The Decaturs, the Lehmans and the Privateers – John Lehman
• The Summer Before Trafalgar: The Journal of Benjamin Silliman – Susan K Smith
• Nelson was an Irishman – Des Grant
• Sin Bo’suns in Nelson’s Ships – Lynda Sebbage
• The Role of Women in London’s Sailortown in the Eighteenth Century – Kenneth Cozens & Derek Morris
• North America’s Seafaring Cities – Harold E ‘Pete’ Stark
• Loyalist Mariners during the American Revolution – Tom Allen
• Admiral George Augustus Westphal – Tom S Iampietro
• Admiral Philip Westphal – T Jeremy Waters
• Admiral of the Fleet Sir Provo William Parry Wallis – Jeremy B Utt
• Lieutenant Richard Bulkeley – Jack R Satterfield
• Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, KCB – Andy Zellers Frederick
• Rear-Admiral Thomas Tudor Tucker – Andrew a Zellers Frederick
• Captain William Gordon Rutherford, CB – Anna Kiefer
• Rear-Admiral John Peyton – Barry Jolly
• The Beach of the English Dead – Rui Ribolhos Filipe
• Russians on the Tagus – Mark West
• Bringing Up Franklin’s Baby – Anthony Cross
• The Carronade: A Revolution in Naval Warfare – Anthony Bruce
• Battle of St George’s Cay, 10 September 1798 – Michael Harris
• Captain John Perkins – Douglas Hamilton
• Contributors’ Biographies
• Notes
• Plate section