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Notes
1Matthew Sheldon, ‘How to re-fit an old Admiral for Sea’, Mariner's Mirror 87: 4, 479-82.
2B. Lavery, Shipboard Life and Organisation, 1731-1815, Navy Records Society (1998), 616-21.
3Court martial of Captain John Spearing of the marines serving on board the Leyden, at his request, for embezzling part of the mess money entrusted to him, held on board the Gladiator, Portsmouth Harbour, 12 and 13 January 1810, TNA: PRO Copy, ADM 1/5401.
44 Purser's accounts presented in the court martial of Captain Edward Pakenham, for embezzlement of stores, false muster, tyranny and oppression, unofficerlike and ungentlemanlike behaviour, and false expenditure of stores, held on board the Royal William, Portsmouth Harbour, 18-25 July 1791, TNA: PRO Copy, ADM 1/5329. Ship's provisions were charged against their account and the sum deducted from their pay when applied for. Ship's provisions not drawn were credited to their account and added to their pay.
5Per lunar month, £8 8s. pay; and per calendar month, 19s. compensation for one servant. ‘Rate of the Pay of the Royal Navy from 1796 compiled in pursuance of Admiralty Minute of 21 Oct. 1840. Officers Full Pay Division’, TNA: PRO Copy, ADM 7/911.