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Notes
1 The author would like to thank the Buckler’s Hard Maritime Museum, at Beaulieu, for access to Capt. Thomas Dixon’s private logbook of Agamemnon. He is also grateful to David Griffiths for proofreading the manuscript.
2 The National Archives, Kew (hereafter TNA): ADM 106/3305.
3 Baugh, British Naval Administration in the Age of Walpole, 259.
4 Knight, ‘Devil bolts and deception?’, 34–51.
5 Lewis, ‘Portsmouth Dockyard in 1756’, 224.
6 Ibid..
7 Pool, Navy Board Contracts, 94.
8 Ibid., 90.
9 Buckler’s Hard Maritime Museum, Personal copy of Captain Thomas Dixon’s Log, 1781–2.
10 TNA: ADM 52/2710, ADM 51/1104.
11 Nicolas, The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson, vol. 1, 372.
12 Alternatively called ‘Wales’; Strong planks along the ship’s side to reinforce decks.
13 TNA: ADM 52/2707.
14 To come round on the other tack by turning the head away from the wind, gybing, opposite to tack.
15 TNA: ADM 52/2632.
16 A cable-laid rope passed four or five times around a weaken hull to strengthen it in rough seas.
17 ‘Biographical Memoir of the Right Honourable Lord Nelson’, 170.
18 TNA: ADM 52/2633, ADM 51/1317.
19 TNA: ADM 51/1317.
20 TNA: ADM 52/3563.
21 TNA: ADM 51/1576.
22 TNA: ADM 1/5399. Court Martial of Captain Jonas Rose.
23 Ibid.
24 TNA: ADM 51/1934, ADM 52/3723.
25 TNA: ADM 1/5399.
26 TNA: ADM 51/1934.
27 Channels, also known as chains or chain-whales, were small horizontal platforms on the side of a ship to provide purchase for the shrouds; they were also used when taking depth soundings.
28 ADM: 1/5399.
29 ADM: 51/2565.
30 ADM: 52/2632.
31 Hutchinson, A Treatise on Naval Architecture, 254.
32 Falconer, An Universal Dictionary of the Marine, 384
33 ADM: 354/187/45, Adoption of chain pumps.
34 ADM: 106/1297/164 and 169.
35 Bugler, H.M.S. Victory: Building, restoration and repair, 79.
36 ADM: 106/1256/ 43.
37 Wilkinson, British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Century, 75.
38 Ibid., 85.
39 A method for stopping a leak from outside the hull, using a sail covered with oakum and rope yarn etc., with the view of getting some of it sucked into a leak, over which the sail is drawn.
40 ADM: 106/2509.
41 Holland, Buckler’s Hard, A Rural Shipbuilding Centre, 113.