Battle of Cape Henry.A British squadron of 8 ships, underVice Admiral Mariot Arbuthnot, engageda French squadron of 7 ships,under Cptn. Des Touches. Jacob Capell, Pte, 27, Queen Charlton, Som, HMS Victory, 1803-6, at Trafalgar, paid off Chatham, 1806, (TR “Victory”) He would have been at the wheel throughout the battle and attending to other actions such as sending out damage parties, “ said Ian. HMS Bombay — Six ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Bombay , after the Indian city of Bombay, now Mumbai:*HMS Bombay (1739) was a 24 gun ship launched in 1739 and burnt by accident in 1789 at Bombay. A Grab armed cruiser Designed by one Maratha… … Wikipedia

HMS Wolverine (16), Henry Gordon, while escorting a convoy to Newfoundland, engaged and sunk bytwo French privateers, one Blonde (36) and another (20). On 15 July 1910 the Sheffield Evening Telegraphrecorded the anniversaries of the day. One particular entry was this: Francis Pritchard, 23, Landsman, HMS Bellerephon, allotted wages paid to his mother, Joan, discharged from Temeraire to HMS Bedford, 1807 The fourth Leviathan was a Majestic-class aircraft carrier. She was launched in 1945 but never completed and scrapped in 1968. Leviathan was a 74-gun Third-rate ship of the line launched in 1790 at Chatham. She fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, was used as a prison hulk from 1816. In October 1846 she was used as a naval target, and was sold out of service in 1848. [6]HMS Hirondelle (16), LtSkinner, and boats of HMS Glatton (56), Cptn. Thomas Seccombe, cut out a Turkish corvette (10) from theport of Sigri. Thames was a 46 gun Fifth-rate launched in 1823. She was converted to a prison hulk in 1841, and sank at her moorings in 1863. George Wilkins, Ord Seaman, 25, On “Victory” at Trafalgar. 11 May 1803, Utrecht, 15 January 1806, “Ocean”

French painter, Ambroise Louis Garneray, echoes Jørgensen’s testimony. Garneray was an official marine painter for the French navy, and The Spherein November 1934, in article by Cecil King entitled ‘ The Wooden Walls of Old England,‘ tells of how he was captured in 1806. One observer recalled all the horrors of dungeons and prisons from across the world, ‘but not one of these is to be compared in refinement of cruelty and multiplication of horrors to the floating hells of Victoria.’ Corbett, Julian (1997). Naval Operations. History of the Great War: Based on Official Documents. Vol.II (reprint of the 1929 seconded.). London and Nashville, Tennessee: Imperial War Museum in association with the Battery Press. ISBN 1-870423-74-7. Richard Whittington,20, Landsman, Kingswood, (nr Wootton-under-Edge) JMS Leviathan (TR “Leviathan”) Sulphur was a 10-gun bomb vessel launched in 1826. She was used as a survey ship from 1835, and for harbor service from 1843. She was broken up in 1857.The Floating Prison: The Remarkable Account of Nine Years' Captivity on the British Prison Hulks During the Napoleonic Wars", by Louis Garn Jørgensen, as reports Britannia and Eve, describes Britain’s prison hulks as ‘sinks of misery and iniquity.’ He echoes Williamson’s sentiments of the hulks’ potential to cause more crime, rather than preventing it. Jørgensen describes the hulk Justitia and its fellow vessels as: