Thanks Mark, it's great to see the photo.
I asked, because there is no firm indication of the Spartiate's position in the morning before the battle. At dawn, she seems to have been a long way south of most of the fleet, and it is not possible to tell when she took her station last in the weather line behind the Minotaur. It may have been as late as 2pm, a couple of hours after the action began. But if Henry Bellairs did make it to the Victory that morning, then that might suggest she was in her station earlier.
Henry Bellairs wasn't the only man at Trafalgar later to go into the church, but to enter the army first certainly makes his a strange and interesting career!
_________________ Tony
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