Maritime History - Some snippets

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1. Memoirs of an English Seaman by Jack Nasty Face, what was his real name? William Robinson.

2. Who hoisted the signal ‘Remember Nelson’, when he was outnumbered at the battle of Lissa in March 1811, and where is he buried? Captain William Hoste, St. Paul’s Cathedral.

2. He was the captain of a slave ship in the eighteenth century, he wrote, ‘Amazing Grace,’ ‘Glorious things of thee are spoken’, and ‘How sweet the name of Jesus sounds’. What was his name? Rev. John Newton.

3. Where does the term post captain derive? English civil war, Generals at sea, size of the ship, could ‘take post’, in a sea battle.

4. What was the name of the island where Captain James Cook was killed? Hawaii.

5. In September 1797 mutineers in the West Indies threw their officers overboard, what was the name of the captain and the ship? Captain Hugh Pigot, Hermione.

6. What is a scavelman? Shovelled the mud out of docks.

7. What is a treenail mooter? Shaped treenails cylindrical and smooth with a moot, a block lined with a round iron hoop.

8. What did the clerk of the cheque do? A senior clerk in royal dockyards, responsible for mustering and paying the men.

9. What does S. N. R. stand for in a nautical sense? Society for Nautical Research.

10. What was HMS Bellerophon know as throughout the fleet? Billy Ruffian.

11. Henry Adams of Beaulieu had three of the ships he had built at Trafalgar, what were they? Agamemnon, Swiftsure, and Euryalus.

12. Adm. Cuthbert Collingwood had a dog, what was his name and how did he die? Bounce, he drowned after falling overboard in the Med.

13. What did Nelson die of, medical cause? Drowned in his own blood.

14. What are the initials of the Dutch East Company, in Dutch? V.O.C.

15. Where did William Bligh’s final mutiny take place? Australia.

16. What was the name of Nelson’s dog and where is its’ collar now? Nileus, N.M.M.

17. Where did the last fleet battle under sail take place? October 1827, Adm. Ed. Codrington, Navarin, Navarino Bay, Greece.

18. What day of the week did that battle of Cape Trafalgar take place? Monday.

19. What was Captain Lucas’s nickname in the French Fleet? Le Petit Lucas.

20. What was the cargo on the Middle passage? Slaves.

21. What was the name of the French woman who was plucked naked from the sea at Trafalgar? Jeanette.

22. What was Adm. Villeneuves’s full name? Pierre, Charles, Jean, Baptiste, Silvestre de Villeneuve.