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 Post subject: Another voice from Trafalgar
PostPosted: Thu May 12, 2011 6:25 am 
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Here's an interesting account of Trafalgar: a voice from the lower deck of 'Temeraire' - made public some time ago but new to me.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... years.html

The writer notes that the enemy aimed to board the Temeraire, 'So with that intent, one dropt on our starboard side, called the La Fue and other dropt on our larboard side called Le Doubtable, they kept a very hot fire for some time. But we soon cooled them for in the height of the smoke our men from the upper decks boarded them both at the same time, and soon carried the day.'

Apparently, there was great indignation subsequently at reports that Temeraire had been boarded.

There is a letter (6 December 1805) in a history of the Harvey family ('Merchants, Medicine and Trafalgar' Alderton Press 2007) from Admiral Harvey's wife, Lady Louisa, to her son-in-law, William Lloyd, to which she adds a postcript asking him to contradict the reports of 'the French ever having put a foot on board Temeraire...as the men are indignant at its ever having been thought. It is to be contradicted by the Lieut. in the papers.'

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