38-gun 6th rate frigate

• Launched in 1794.
• Broken up in 1819.
• In August - Sept 1797, Capt. Thomas Fremantle took Nelson home in her so that he could recover from the loss of his arm.

Present at Nelson's battles:

• Santa Cruz: Under Capt. Thomas Fremantle, was with Nelson during the disastrous attack on Santa Cruz on 29th July 1797.  Carried Nelson back to England to recover from the loss of his arm. 
• Nile: Scouting for Nelson, saw the French fleet off Aboukir Bay on the 21st of July 1798; Capt. Edward James Foote.
• Trafalgar Campaign: With Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean (Capt. Courtenay Boyle); spotted the French leaving Toulon on the 19th October 1805.

Career:

• 29th July 1797: With Nelson for the attack on Santa Cruz in Tenerife.  (Capt. Thomas Fremantle).  The attack failed spectacularly, and Nelson was shot in his right arm, causing massive blood loss.  He would have bled to death were it not for his stepson, Josiah Nisbet, tying a tourniquet around the arm.  He was taken to the Seahorse, which was closer than his flagship, and his arm was amputated.  Fremantle was also badly wounded.
• August - September 1797: Took Nelson back to England to recover from the loss of his arm (Capt. Thomas Fremantle)
• 27th June 1798: Captured the French 36-gun frigate, Sensible.  (Capt. Edward Foote)
• 21st July 1798: Whilst hunting the French in the Mediterranean, Nelson sent the Seahorse ahead to scout for him.  She spotted the French fleet in Aboukir Bay.  (Capt. Edward Foote)
• August 1798: After the Battle of the Nile, Nelson sent Seahorse with several other ships to Alexandria.  (Capt. Edward Foote)
• May-Aug 1799: With Nelson, assisting with the recapture of Naples.  (Capt. Edward Foote)
• May 1800: Escorted troop transports to the Mediterranean; in December, escorted a huge merchant convoy of over 550 ships through the Channel (Rear-Admiral Richard Bickerton; Capt. Edward Foote).
• 1803-05: With Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean.  As a frigate, she was one of Nelson's 'eyes' which he so highly valued for watching the French in Toulon.  On the 19th January 1805, she spotted the French fleet leave Toulon and rushed to Agincourt Sound to report the news to Nelson, as the main fleet were watering there.  Unfortunately, Capt. Boyle had been so quick that he didn't know which way the French had gone, and no other English ship had followed them.  (Capt. Courtnay Boyle)
• 4th May 1805: Saw a Spanish convoy off Cartagena, which went into an anchorage called San Pedro and was there protected by a fort and some gunboats.  While the Seahorse herself fired on the gunboats, one of her Lieutenants, Downie, took a boat to capture the largest brig of the convoy.  (Capt. Courtnay Boyle).
• July 1807: With Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood's fleet in the Aegean Sea.  Collingwood detached the Seahorse to cruise in the archipelago looking out for Turkish ships.  On the 5th, she alone fought 2 Turks: a 52-gun frigate, and 26-gun corvette, capturing the frigate and sinking the corvette.  (Capt. John Stewart)
• Sept 1808 - Jan 1809: Took the British diplomat Robert Adair to Constantinople to sign a peace treaty between England and Turkey.  (Capt. John Stewart)
• From 1809, cruised between Corsica and Italy; in May, her boats, with those of the Halcyon's, destroyed enemy forts at Gianutri and Pianosa (islands north-west of Corsica); in August, captured a ship but no  prize money was paid until 1850 as the prize agent went bankrupt.  (Capt. John Stewart)
• May 1810: captured a French privateer, Stella di Napoleon (Capt. John Stewart)
• Dec 1812: escorted a West Indies convoy.  (Capt. John Stewart)
• 13th Nov 1813: captured the Subtile, a 16-gun French privateer, but had damaged her so badly that she sank.  (Capt. James Gordon)
• 1814: escorted a convoy to Quebec.  In August was part of a squadron that bombarded Fort Washington on the Potomac River in America; her captain, James Gordon, landed and took possession of the fort.
• Dec 1814: her boats took part in the Battle of Lake Borgne which was part of the British advance on New Orleans.  The Americans surrendered, and British troops attacking New Orleans were able to land at Lake Borgne.  (Capt. James Gordon)

24-gun 6th rate frigate

• Launched in 1751.
• Broken up in 1777.
• As a midshipman, Nelson travelled home from India to England during March-May 1776, as he was ill.  She was commanded by Capt. James Pigot.

Career:

• 20th May 1756: present at the Battle of Minorca, the first naval battle of the Seven Years' War in Europe.  The British lost to the French, which meant that the French were able to take Minorca.  The British commander, Admiral John Byng, was executed for not doing enough to save the island's garrison.
• From 1764, she was used as a survey ship, for the purpose of finding a place for a British base in the south Atlantic, and general discovery of new lands, and so the Dolphin became the first ship to circumnavigate the world twice.  The first was between June 1764 to May 1766, under Commodore John Byron.  During the voyage, he took possession of the Falkland Islands, but this nearly caused a fall-out between Britain and Spain as each claimed that the strategically-important islands had been discovered by their own explorers.  He later discovered some islands in the south Pacific. 
• From 1766 until May 1768, Dolphin went around the world again, this time under Samuel Wallis, a navigator.  In June 1767, Wallis took possession of Tahiti, an island in the Pacific, and called it 'King George III Island'.  While there, the sailors discovered that the local women would exchange sex for iron, and this happened so regularly that the loss of iron nails began to weaken the Dolphin's structure! Wallis then went to Batavia and then went round the Cape of Good Hope and back to England.  Some of the Dolphin's crew later went with Captain James Cook on his voyage to the Pacific.

64-gun 3rd rate

• Launched in 1769.
• Broken up in 1816.
• Nelson joined Worcester as a midshipman, and became acting lieutenant, from September 1776 - April 1777, under Capt. Mark Robinson.

Career:

• 27th July 1778: fought at the 1st Battle of Ushant, commanded by Capt. Mark Robinson.  (see notes on Victory's career for more info on the battle). 
• From 1779, served in the East Indies and was part of several battles there.
• 20th June 1783: fought in the Battle of Cuddalore, southern India, under Capt. Charles Hughes.  The city of Cuddalore was a city in Mysore, which was an ally of France.  The British commanders in Madras decided to lay siege to the city, and the British fleet of 18 ships commanded by Admiral Edward Hughes were to protect the army's supply ships.  They were attacked by a French fleet, and though no ships were lost and the result was indecisive, the British were prevented from landing reinforcements for the siege.  But on the 29th of June, word reached them of the peace agreement in Europe, and they called off hostilities. 
• In 1788 she became a hulk, and was broken up in 1816.

32-gun 5th-rate frigate

• Launched in 1761.
• Wrecked in 1801.
• Nelson served in her as 2nd Lieutenant under his friend and mentor, Capt. William Locker, from April - December 1777.

Career:

• Served on and off in the West Indies until 1773.
• In 1777 she was recommissioned and Capt. William Locker took command of her to escort a convoy to Jamaica and then serve in the Leeward Islands.  Nelson joined as 2nd lieutenant - she was his first ship after passing his exam.  On this voyage, Nelson met Cuthbert Collingwood, also a lieutenant, who he would remain close friends with for the rest of his life. 
• In November 1777, she captured Resolution, an American privateer.  Lowestoffe's 1st Lieutenant attempted to board her, but failed due to the rough sea, and returned to his ship.  Nelson jumped forward to volunteer to try, and he succeeded in boarding the prize.
• Sep-Oct 1779: Present at the capture of the Spanish town at San Fernando de Omoa (in Honduras, a  central American country), while commanded by Capt. Christopher Parker.  During an unexpectedly long and difficult march after landing, the British soldiers found that though they met with little resistance in the town, they couldn't take the fort as they had dropped the scaling ladders.  So, the Lowestoffe and Charon (44 guns) fired on the fort, along with the guns landed by the crew of the Pomona (28 guns), which distracted the garrison enough that the British soldiers could run in with a surprise attack and take the fort almost before the Spanish realised it.  During the bombardment, Lowestoffe was temporarily grounded and took a lot of damage.
• In 1793, joined the Mediterranean fleet as part of Admiral Hood's fleet blockading Toulon; she was present at the attack on Corsica in 1794 (Nelson was also there, in the Agamemnon).
• 1795: With the Dido, fought two larger French frigates, capturing the Minerve, but the Artemise escaped.
• After 1795, served in the West Indies again.
• Wrecked off Caicos islands (in the West Indies) in 1801, after being grounded by a sudden reverse of current.  Luckily, only 5 men were killed.

Schooner

• As a reward for boarding another ship, Nelson was given command of Little Lucy as his first independent command.

Career:

• Had been an American privateer called Resolution; Lowestoffe captured her on the 20th November 1777.
• Nelson commanded her as a tender to the Lowestoffe.
• Captain William Locker had renamed her 'Little Lucy' after his wife and daughter.

The Bristol at the attack on Sullivan's Island, as Admiral Parker's flagship.

50-gun 4th rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1775.
• Nelson served on her as 3rd Lieutenant, July-Sept 1778, while she was Admiral Peter Parker's flagship.

Career:

• 1776-77: In North America.  In June 1776 she was Admiral Peter Parker's flagship during the unsuccessful attack on Sullivan's Island near Charleston in South Carolina, which was part of Britain's attempt to take Charleston from Americal rebels.
• 1777-81: In the West Indies.  In March 1780, under Capt. Toby Caulfield, took part in a small action between a squadron led by Capt. William Cornwallis in the Lion, and a French squadron that had been escorting a merchant convoy off Monte Christi on San Domingo (so the action was called the 1st Action of Monti Christi).  The result was indecisive, as the French retreated.
• 20th June 1783: Took part in the Battle of Cuddalore under Capt. James Burney.  See Worcester for more info on the battle.
• Became a Church ship in 1787; a Hospital ship in 1795; then a Prison ship in 1799, and was broken up in 1810.

16-gun brig-sloop

• Bought in 1777 in Jamaica.
• Sold in 1783.
• Nelson commanded her from Dec 1778 - June 1779

Career:

• Nelson cruised with her for prizes in the Caribbean, but wasn't very successful.
• Handed over command to Cuthbert Collingwood in June 1779.  This began a connection to Collingwood that would last until Nelson's death.

28-gun 6th rate frigate

• Launched in France as the Astrée in 1778.
• Captured by the British in October in the same year.
• Wrecked in January 1783.
• Nelson commanded her as Post-Captain from June 1779 - March 1780.

Career:

• 1780: She was Nelson's ship during the Nicaraguan expedition to capture the fort of San Juan.  140 out of her 200 crew died from disease, and Nelson himself became so ill that he handed command to Cuthbert Collingwood and was taken to Jamaica where he was cared for by Capt. William Cornwallis and a nurse (once Cornwallis' slave) named Cuba Cornwallis. 
• Jan 1783: Hit a reef near Port Royal in Jamaica and sank, but with no loss of life.

44-gun 5th rate frigate

• Launched in 1778.
• Wrecked in 1800.
• Nelson was technically her Captain from March - Sept 1780.  But he never actually set foot in her as he was too ill.

Career:

• March 1780: Took part in the 1st Action of Monti Christi (see the Bristol for more info on the battle).  The death of her captain, Bonovier Glover, left the command open for Nelson.  However, he was too ill and returned home before ever setting foot in her.
• March 1788: Renamed the Dromedary and became a storeship.
• 1793 - 1795: Went to the West Indies.
• 1796: Went to the Mediterranean.
• 1798: Went to Jamaica.
• 1800: Wrecked near Trinidad.

Lion (left) capturing the Santa-Doratea

64-gun 3rd rate battleship.

• Launched in 1777.
• Sold and broken up in 1837.
• Commanded by Capt. William Cornwallis, she took a poorly Nelson home in September 1780.

Career:

• 6th July 1779: Fought at the Battle of Grenada.  A French fleet under Admiral D'Estaing had just captured the island (in the West Indies), and the British under Admiral Jack Byron went to try to take it back.  Byron didn't know how superior in numbers the French fleet was to the British (25 French to British 21) and so gave the order for a general chase without forming a line, while the French formed a line of battle.  Once he realised how big the French fleet was, Byron gave the order to form a line, but this led to the attack being too disorganised.  The Lion (under Capt. William Cornwallis) became separated from the fleet and, very badly damaged, had to flee to Jamaica to avoid being captured.  The battle was a decisive victory for the French.
• 1780: Flagship of Capt. William Cornwallis during two actions off Monti Christi in San Domingo.  The first, in March, was against a small French squadron that had been escorting a merchant convoy, and was indecisive.  The second was against a larger French squadron which was escorting the troops of Rochambeau (later to become one of the Founding Fathers of the USA) but the French weren't particularly interested in attacking and continued on with their mission.
• 1781: Went to North America.  In 1782, captured the French 40-gun frigate Aigle.
• Sept 1792: Under Capt. Erasmus Gower, escorted the Hindostan to take the British ambassador to China.
• 1796: in the North Sea, under Capt. Manley Dixon.  In December, rescued the crew of the Reunion, which had been wrecked.
• 1797: was involved in the Nore Mutiny.
• 1798: In the Mediterranean.  On the 15th of July, under Capt. Manley Dixon, she fought, alone, four Spanish frigates, and captured the Santa Dorotea.  The three others escaped.
• 1799: Joined Nelson's squadron off Palermo.
• 1800: With the blockade of Malta.  On the 31st March she (under Capt. Manley Dixon), with the Penelope and Foudroyant (which Nelson was on board of) captured the Guillaume Tell, the only remaining escapee from the Battle of the Nile.
• 27th Dec 1807: Captured the French privateer Reciprocite off Beachy Head (south of England).
• 1811: Involved in the capture of Java (an island in Indonesia) from the French and Dutch (Capt. Henry Heathcote).
• 1816: Became a sheer hulk.
• 1837: Sold to be broken up.

28-gun 6th-rate frigate

• Originally a French merchant ship called the Ménagére, she was bought by the French navy in May 1779 and captured by the British in September that same year.
• Sold in 1784.
• Nelson was her Captain from Oct 1781 - July 1783.

• On August 24th 1781, Nelson excitedly wrote to his brother, Maurice, of his first impressions of his new ship:

"According to my promise I sit down to write you an account of the Albemarle.  Yesterday I went down to Woolwich with Maurice [Suckling, Nelson's uncle], and hoisted my Pendant; and I am perfectly satisfied with her, as a twenty-eight gun Frigate.  She is in dock, alongside the Enterprize, and in some respects, I think, excels her.  She has a bold entrance, and clean run."

Nicolas, Vol. I

• On October 18th 1781, he wrote again to his brother when Albemarle was ready to sail:

"I have an exceeding good Ship's company.  Not a man or Officer in her I would wish to change.  She appears to sail also very well."

Nicolas, Vol. I

• William Locker didn't think much of Albemarle, however, and apparently told Nelson so: in a letter to Locker on 22nd December 1781, Nelson reported:

"The Albemarle, although you abused her at Woolwich, has some good sailing in her."

Nicolas, Vol. I

Career:

• Oct 1781: Under Nelson, sailed as convoy escort to Denmark.
• Jan 1782: A merchant ship collided with her during a storm at Yarmouth, causing considerable damage.  Albemarle had to be refitted at Portsmouth, which took two months to complete.
• May 1782: Escorted a convoy to Quebec, then cruised near North America and took several prizes (unusually for Nelson!).  While sailing with a convoy from Quebec to Boston, he was chased by three French ships-of-the-line and a frigate.  They were all much better sailers than the Albemarle, so Nelson was forced to take her through some shoals to escape. 
• Oct 1782: Transferred to Admiral Hood's squadron in the West Indies and was involved in a small, and unsuccessful, attack on Turk's Island, which had been taken by the French.
• Sold in 1784.

Boreas by Geoff Hunt

28-gun 6th rate frigate

• Launched in 1774.
• Sold in 1802.
• Nelson was her captain from March 1784 to December 1787.

Career:

• 18th Dec 1778: In the Leeward Islands.  Attacked a French convoy off Martinique, capturing two ships and driving others ashore, even though she was being shot at by two 74s, two frigates, and shore batteries.  Captain Charles Thompson.
• 6th July 1779: Fought at the Battle of Grenada, commanded by Capt. Charles Thompson.  See the Lion for more details of the battle.
• March 1784 - Dec 1787: As her Captain, Nelson had command of her in the Leeward Islands.  He sailed there with the wife and family of Rear-Admiral Richard Hughes, who was Commander-in-Chief.  During this time, his main role was to suppress illegal trade with America, a duty which he took very seriously, to the point that his superiors disapproved of some of his actions.  During this time, he met Frances Nisbet at Nevis, and after a two-year courtship, married her on the 11th March 1787 - although, before her, he was besotted with Mrs Moutray, wife of the Commissioner of the Navy at Antigua, until she left in February 1785.  He was also aide-de-camp to Prince William Henry, who was Captain of the Pegasus.  Nelson became involved in a dispute between the Prince and the first Lieutenant of the Pegasus, Isaac Schomberg, which proved to be controversial.  The Boreas was an unhappy ship during this time, and almost half the men on the ship were flogged for mutinous behaviour and attempts to desert - it was very unusual for Nelson to exact such a high number of punishments.
• March 1797: Became a slop ship, selling stocks of supplies such as clothing, bedding and tobacco to ships' crews, at the Nore.

Agamemnon fires on Ca Ira, by Geoff Hunt

64-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1781.
• Wrecked in 1809.
• Nelson was her Captain, then Commodore, from January 1793 - June 1796, and he was very fond of her and her crew.  His stepson, Josiah Nisbet, was with him as a midshipman, aged 13.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Copenhagen: Present, under Capt. Robert Devereux Fancourt.  Part of Nelson's division, but became grounded before she got to the fighting.
• Trafalgar Campaign: With Cornwallis' Channel Fleet in 1804; fought in the Battle of Cape Finisterre on the 22nd July 1805.
• Trafalgar: Present, under Capt. Edward Berry.  Part of Nelson's column, she helped forced the Bucentaure to surrender, and then was part of the line formed to meet Dumanoir's returning ships.

Career:

• 12th December 1781: Fought in the 2nd Battle of Ushant.  See the Victory for more details of the battle.
• 9th - 12th April 1782: Fought in the Battle of the Saintes (islands in the West Indies) under Capt. Benjamin Caldwell.  36 British ships commanded by Admiral George Romney defeated a French fleet of 33 commanded by Comte de Grasse, which had been sailing to join a Spanish fleet with plans to invade Jamaica.
• 1794: Under Nelson, seamen from the Agamemnon helped capture Bastia, and later took part in the siege of Calvi where Nelson received the injury to his right eye that would leave it sightless. 
• 14th March 1795: Fought in the Battle of Genoa and helped to capture the Ça Ira.
• July 1795: Fought at the Battle of Hyères Islands. On the 7th, she was chased by the French fleet, and signalled to the British fleet (commanded by Admiral Hotham) by firing cannons.  The French found themselves outnumbered by the British by 17 to 22, and tried to escape, but the British chased and the van, including Agamemnon, managed to get within range of the French rear.  The French ship Alcide surrendered but later blew up.  Nelson in the Agamemnon, along with the Cumberland, closed in on another ship, but then Hotham signalled for the fighting to stop, and the French got away.
• May 1797: Involved in the Nore mutiny.  (Capt. Robert Fancourt)
• 25th March 1800: Hit the Penmarks rocks off Brest and was so badly damaged that the crew needed help on the pumps from crews of two sloops, the Chatham guardship, and soldiers from the Pendennis garrison too!  She made it to Plymouth on the 31st March and signalled for help, and had to be lashed to a sheer hulk just to stay afloat.  (Capt. Robert Fancourt)
• 1804: Joined Admiral Cornwallis' fleet in the Channel.  (Capt. John Harvey)
• 22nd July 1805: Fought in the Battle of Cape Finisterre.  (Capt. John Harvey)
• 13th Oct 1805: Joined Nelson off Cadiz after narrowly escaping capture.  During the night on the 10th, she had become surrounded by a French squadron of five ships.  Captain Edward Berry tried to trick them in to thinking he was leading them into a trap, by firing guns and making signals, and managed to escape when they went after a convoy instead.
• 21st Oct 1805: Fought in the Battle of Trafalgar, in Nelson's division.  At one point she was attacked by four ships at once, but as their guns were pointed so high, and she was a relatively little ship, she didn't take much damage and only two men were killed and seven wounded.  (Capt. Edward Berry)
• After Trafalgar, she towed the Colossus to Gibraltar, repaired, and then re-joined Admiral Collingwood's blockade of Cadiz.
• 1806: Joined Admiral John Duckworth's squadron in the West Indies, and fought in the Battle of San Domingo on the 6th February.  Commanded by Capt. Edward Berry, she assisted in driving the French Admiral's flagship, Impérial, on shore.
• 1807: Joined James Gambier's Baltic Fleet and fought in the 2nd Battle of Copenhagen on the 15th August.  But, as in Nelson's battle there, she was grounded.  (Capt. Jonas Rose)
• Feb 1808: Sailed to Brazil.
• Jan 1809: A survey of her found many defects; then on the 17th June she hit a shoal and was wrecked.  A court martial decided she could have been saved if she hadn't been in such poor condition, so her Captain, Jonas Rose, was acquitted.

74-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1787.
• Burnt in 1813.
• Nelson served on her as a Commodore from June - September 1796 with Edward Berry as captain, and from October - December 1796 with Ralph Miller.  She was his ship for the Battle of Cape St Vincent on the 14th February 1797. 

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: Nelson's ship, with Captain Edward Berry.

Career:

• In the Mediterranean from 1793. 
• 14th March 1795: Fought at the Action off Genoa (when Nelson in the Agamemnon captured the Ça Ira).  (Capt. Samuel Reeve)
• 13th July 1795: fought in the Battle of Hyères Islands.  See the Agamemnon for more details of the battle.  (Capt. Thomas Seccombe)
• June 1796: Nelson asked to be transferred to her rather than go home with the Agamemnon, which needed to be refit.  He assisted with the evacuation of Leghorn when the French invaded the town.
• July 1796: Took possession of the neutral fortress of Porto-Ferrajo in Elba, to prevent the French using it to take Corsica after taking Leghorn.  Gilbert Elliot (viceroy of Corsica) had negotiated with the governor of the town.
• October 1796: Evacuated troops from Bastia after the French took it.  Corsica began to negotiate with France, and intended to take British property and seize the viceroy.  But Nelson threatened to shoot at the town if they did that, and so they backed down.
• 14th Feb 1797: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent against the Spanish.  Nelson wore out of the line of battle and attacked the Santisima Trinidad, but the Captain took a battering as he had taken her right into the thick of the action, alone for a time.  The Spanish San Nicolas and San Josef collided, and Nelson seized the opportunity by moving alongside the San Nicolas and personally leading the boarding party - highly unusual for an officer.  He then leapt across to the San Josef and took that ship, too.  So, the Captain was part of what became known as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for capturing first rates'.  But she was so badly damaged that she had to be towed to Lisbon for repairs, and Nelson transferred to the Theseus. 
• May 1799: Returned to the Mediterranean station with Captain Richard Strachan.
• June 1799: Part of a squadron which took 5 French ships off Cape Sicie; she personally took the brig Alerte.  (Capt. Richard Strachan)
• 25th August 1800: Part of a squadron which assisted an attack on Ferrol by the army; the attack was unsuccessful.  (Capt. Richard Strachan)
• 15th Aug - 20th Oct 1807: Fought at the 2nd Battle of Copenhagen.  (Capt. Isaac Wolley)
• 24th Dec 1807: Present at the occupation of Madeira, during which the British took the island from Portugal with no opposition.  (Capt. Isaac Wolley)
• 30th Jan - 24th Feb 1809: Assisted with taking Martinique.  (Capt. James Athol Wood)
• Dec 1809: Became a receiving ship at Plymouth.  She was accidentally burnt and sank on the 22nd March 1813.  In July that year, the wreck was raised and broken up. 

Diadem by Thomas Whitcombe

64-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1782.
• Broken up in 1832.
• Nelson was aboard her as a Commodore for a short time in September 1796.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: Present, Captain Charles Henry Towry.

Career:

• 14th March 1795: Fought in the Action off Genoa (when Nelson in the Agamemnon captured the Ça Ira).  (Capt. Charles Tyler)
• 13th July 1795: Fought at the Battle of Hyères Islands (see the Agamemnon for more details of both these battles).  (Capt. Charles Tyler)
• 1796: With Nelson's squadron (with Nelson in the Agamemnon).
• 14th Feb 1797: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.  (Capt. Charles Henry Towry)
• Oct 1799: Some of her seamen were court-martialled for mutinous expressions.
• 1800: Became a troop ship, and landed troops at Aboukir Bay.  (Capt. Sir Thomas Livingston)
• 1825: Became a receiving ship.

La Minerve, then French, being captured by the British Dido.

38-gun 5th rate Frigate

• Launched in France in 1794.
• Captured by the Dido and Lowestoffe on the 24th June 1795.
• Recaptured by the French in 1803.
• Recaptured again by the British in 1810.
• Nelson served in her as a Commodore from Dec 1796 - 13th Feb 1797.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: Captain George Cockburn.

Career:

• Dec 1796: With Nelson at Porto-Ferrajo.  With the Blanche, was involved in an action against the Santa Sabina and Ceres.  Minerve took Santa Sabina, but four more Spanish ships appeared, forcing Nelson to leave her prize behind so she could escape.  But she also left behind the prize crew including Lieutenants John Culverhouse, and Thomas Hardy. 
• 14th Feb 1797: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.  (Capt. George Cockburn)
• 16th Feb 1797: Sent with a small squadron to chase the Santisima Trinidad which was being towed by a frigate and a Spanish brig due to the damage she took during the battle.  Minerve captured the brig, but the Santisima Trinidad and the frigate got away.  (Capt. George Cockburn)
• 2nd July 1803: Grounded near Cherbourg and recaptured by the French.  (Capt. Jahleel Brenton)
• 3rd Feb 1810: Recaptured by the British, but didn't serve in the navy.

74-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1782.
• Broken up in September 1806.
• Nelson transferred to her for a short time after the Battle of Cape St Vincent, because the Captain had been so badly damaged.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: Captain George Martin. 

Career:

• 1794: Present during operations against San Domingo and the capture of Martinique. (Capt. John Henry).
• Took troops to Port-au-Prince, with 3 other ships, 3 frigates and 3 sloops.
• 23rd June 1795: Fought at the Battle of Ile Groix.  As she was one of the faster ships, Admiral Bridport sent her ahead with 5 others in the chase to cut off some of the rear French ships.  She stayed with Bridport's fleet until September 1795 protecting the invasion of Quiberon Bay in the north-west of France, which was a landing of troops intending to end the French Revolution and restore the French monarchy.  (Capt. Richard Grindall)
• February 1797: Joined Admiral Jervis' Mediterranean squadron, and fought in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.  (Capt. George Martin)
• 26th April 1797: Together with the Emerald and commanded by Captain George Martin, she defeated 2 Spanish frigates.  The Ninfa was captured and later renamed Hamadryad, but the Santa Elena was deliberately grounded by her crew and later sank.  The British received no treasure, however, as the Spanish had given it to a fishing boat heading into Cadiz before the battle.

Theseus in a hurricane, 1804

74-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1786.
• Broken up in May 1814.
• Nelson commanded her as Commodore from May - August 1797.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Nile: Captain Ralph Miller

Career:

• 1797: Nelson's flagship during the disastrous attack on Santa Cruz in which he lost his arm.  Theseus' captain was Ralph Willett Miller.
• June 1798: Joined Nelson's fleet for his chase across the Mediterranean in search of Napoleon's French fleet.  Fought at the Battle of the Nile.  (Capt. Ralph Miller)
• 14th Aug 1798: Went with Orion, Bellerophon, Minotaur, Defence, Audacious and Majestic to Gibraltar with prizes Franklin, Tonnant, Aquilon, Conquerant, Peuple-Souverain and Spartiate, then sailed to England after repairing.  (Capt. Ralph Miller)
• Feb 1799: Joined Thomas Troubridge's blockade of Alexandria, sent to assist with the defence of Acre under Sir Sidney Smith.  (Capt. Ralph Miller)
• 14th May 1799: During the siege, Captain Ralph Miller had the crew collect French shells which fell into the Theseus but didn't explode, and fire them back.  A pile of shells were being refilled with gunpowder when one was accidentally ignited, and they all exploded.  More than 40 men, including Miller, were killed.
• 1803: Present at the blockade of Saint-Domingue under Capt. John Bligh.  In September, bombarded the fort at Port Dauphin and then captured the French 28-gun frigate Sargesse along with 2 brigs and 3 schooners.
• March 1809: Fought in the Battle of Basque Roads, under Captain John Beresford, with Lord Gambier's fleet, where the anchored French fleet were attacked by fire ships and many ran aground.

Vanguard, by Ivan Berryman

74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line

• Launched in March 1787.
• Broken up in September 1821.
• Nelson served in her as a Rear-Admiral from March 1798 - June 1799.  His Captains were Edward Berry, from December 1797 - August 1798; and Thomas Hardy, from August 1798 - June 1799.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Nile: Nelson's flagship, Capt. Edward Berry.

Career:

• 1793: In the Channel Fleet.
• 1794: Went to the West Indies. 
• March 1798: Nelson hoisted his flag aboard her in England.  Having recovered from the loss of his arm, he had been promised the Foudroyant, but she was not ready when he was, so he took the Vanguard instead, with his friend Captain Edward Berry.
• 7th June 1798: Nelson began his chase of the French fleet through the Mediterranean.  During a heavy storm off Sardinia, the Vanguard was badly damaged and dismasted, and would have been wrecked.  Captain Alexander Ball in the Alexander took a big risk in towing her to safety, against Nelson's orders to abandon the attempt and not risk his own ship, but in doing so he likely saved Nelson's life as well as that of the Vanguard's entire crew.  (Capt. Edward Berry)
• 1st August 1798: Fought at the Battle of the Nile as Nelson's flagship, Captain Edward Berry.  She captured the French Spartiate, but was very badly damaged and Nelson received a terrible head injury that troubled him for months.
• 19th August 1798: Nelson left Aboukir Bay for Naples.
• October 1798: Joined the blockade of Malta. (Capt. Thomas Hardy)
• December 1798: Evacuated the royal family of Naples to Palermo to escape the French invasion.  (Capt. Thomas Hardy)
• 1803: Off San Domingo, in a squadron which took the French frigate La Creole and the 74-gun Le Duquesne, as well as 3 privateers.  (Capt. James Walker)
• 1807: Fought at the 2nd Battle of Copenhagen and capture of the Danish fleet.  (Capt. Alexander Fraser)
• 1812: Became a prison ship.
• 1814: Became a powder hulk.

80-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line.

• Launched in March 1798.
• Sold in 1892 to a private owner.
• Grounded and wrecked at Blackpool in 1897.

• Nelson's flagship as Rear-Admiral from June 1799 - July 1800 whilst he was in Palermo, although sometimes he just had his flag raised in her whilst he was ashore.  It was aboard her that the Neapolitan Admiral was controversially tried and sentenced to death, and it is likely that Nelson and Emma Hamilton's daughter, Horatia, was conceived on board when Nelson took the Hamiltons to Malta in late April or early May 1800.

Career:

• 12th October 1798: Fought at the Battle of Tory Island which was commanded by Commodore John Warren, during which the French 74 Hoche (renamed Donegal), and the frigates Bellone (renamed Proserpine), Embuscade and Coquille, were captured.  (Capt. Thomas Byard)
• June 1799: Arrived at Palermo, where Nelson took her as his flagship.  (Capt. Thomas Hardy)
• Nov 1799 - Feb 1800: At the blockade of Malta.  (Capt. Edward Berry)
• Feb 1800: Captured the Généreux (Capt. Edward Berry)
• March 1800: Captured the Guillaume Tell (Capt. Edward Berry).  The Guillaume Tell and Généreux were the only two remaining ships from the Battle of the Nile, and Nelson was delighted to have caught them. 
• 1801: Assisted with the British landing at Egypt under Admiral Lord Keith.  (Capt. Philip Beaver)
• 13th March 1806: With the London and Amazon, captured the French Marengo(74) and La Belle Poule(40).  (Capt. John Chambers White)
• November 1807: Part of the blockade of the Tagus (Capt. Norborne Thompson).
• 1808: Rear-Admiral William Sidney Smith's flagship in the South American Station.
• 1812: Returned to England.
• 1820: Became a guardship at Plymouth.
• 1861: Became a training ship.
• 1892: She was sold to be exhibited at seaside resorts, but she became grounded and wrecked at Blackpool.  But, aside from Victory, she was the only other of Nelson's ships to survive long enough to be photographed.

Alexander towing the Vanguard during a storm.

74-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched October 1778.
• Broken up in 1819.
• Nelson was a passenger on board in July 1800 before his overland journey to England with the Hamiltons.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Nile: Captain Alexander Ball.

Career:

• March 1780: Captured the French 38-gun frigate Le Monsieur. (Capt. Edward Longford)
• September 1782: Assisted with the relief of Gibraltar; took part in the Battle of Cape Spartel in October.  (Capt. Edward Longford)  (See Victory's career for more details of the battle.)
• June 1794: Sailed with Rear-Admiral Montagu's squadron to join Lord Howe; chased a French squadron into Bertheaume; after being chased by a larger French squadron, returned to Plymouth.  (Capt. Richard Bligh)
• November 1794: Off the Scillies with the Canada, was attacked by a squadron of 5 French 74s.  Canada escaped, but Alexander was captured and renamed L'Alexandre.  (Capt. Richard Rodney Bligh)
• 22nd June 1795: Recaptured in the Battle of Groix and towed back to Plymouth to be renamed back to Alexander. 
• 21st May 1798: During Nelson's chase of the French in the Mediterranean, the fleet ran into a heavy storm.  Nelson's flagship, Vanguard, became dismasted and would have been wrecked, but Captain Alexander Ball, despite the dangers and Nelson's instructions not to do so, towed the flagship to safety.
• 1st August 1798: Fought at the Battle of the Nile. (Capt. Alexander Ball) 
• 19th August 1798: Went with Nelson in the Vanguard to Naples.  (Capt. Alexander Ball)
• Sep-Oct 1798: Joined the blockade of Malta.  (Capt. Alexander Ball)
• 18th Feb 1800: Helped capture the Généreux and was sent by Nelson to take her to Syracuse.  (Capt. William Harrington)
• 1801: With Rear-Admiral John Warren's squadron in the Mediterranean.
• October 1805: Became a hospital ship at Portsmouth.

112-gun 1st rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in Spain in 1783, named the San José.
• Captured by Nelson during the Battle of Cape St Vincent on the 14th February 1797, and renamed San Josef.
• Nelson's flagship during his command of the defence of the Channel in Jan-Feb 1801, with Captain Thomas Hardy.  He wanted her for the Baltic campaign, but she wasn't suitable for the shallower waters and he took the St George instead.
• Broken up in May 1849.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: On the Spanish side as the flagship of Rear-Admiral Francisco Javier de Winthuyssen y Pineda, but captured by Nelson. 

Career:

• 14th Feb 1797: On the Spanish side, she was Rear-Admiral Don Francisco Winthuysen's flagship during the Battle of Cape St Vincent.  During the battle, the Spanish 80-gun ship-of-the-line, San Nicolas, collided with her and they became entangled.  Before that, she had been heavily battered by British ships and many of her crew had been killed or wounded.  Nelson, in the Captain, led an aggressive boarding party onto the San Nicolas, and took her.  Then, completing what became known as 'Nelson's Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates', he stormed onto the San José.  The Spanish Admiral, having had both his legs blown off, was dying below decks, and so it didn't take long for the ship to surrender.
• Jan 1801: Nelson requested, and was granted, the San Josef for his flagship during his defence of the Channel.  (Capt. Thomas Hardy)
• March 1805: She was the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Cotton in the Channel Fleet in the time between Admiral Cornwallis' departure and Admiral Lord Gardner taking over command.
• 5th Nov 1813: Part of the squadron under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Pellew involved in a skirmish with a French squadron under Rear-Admiral Cosmao-Kerjulien, the commander who had led the disastrously unsuccessful counter-attack to rescue the prizes after the Battle of Trafalgar.  (Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, Capt. William Stewart).
• 12th Feb 1814: Pellew's squadron chased the same French fleet into Toulon.
• 1839: Became a gunnery training ship at Plymouth.

98-gun 2nd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1785.
• Wrecked in December 1811.
• She was Nelson's flagship, as Vice-Admiral, prior to the Battle of Copenhagen, from Feb-March 1801.  He transferred to the Elephant for the battle, and then went back to the St George from 2nd April - June 1801.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Copenhagen:  Captain Thomas Hardy.

Career:

• April 1793: Off Cape Finisterre, took the 20-gun French privateer General Dumourier.  (Rear-Admiral John Gell, Capt. Thomas Foley)
• Sept 1793: Bombarded French batteries at Toulon.  (Rear-Adm John Gell, Capt. Thomas Foley)
• 9th March 1795: Fought in the Battle of Genoa, during which Nelson in the Agamemnon captured the Ça Ira.  (Vice-Adm Sir Hyde Parker, Capt. Thomas Foley)
• 13th July 1795: Fought at the Battle of Hyères Islands.  (Vice-Adm. Hyde Parker; Capt. Thomas Foley)  See Agamemnon for more details of the battle)
• 18th Jan 1797: Grounded briefly and went to Lisbon to repair.  (Vice-Adm Charles Thompson; Capt. Shuldham Peard)
• May 1797: Involved in the mutiny in the fleet blockading Cadiz.  (Vice-Adm Charles Thompson; Capt. Shuldham Peard)
• 1799: In the Mediterranean.  (Capt. Sampson Edwards)
• 1800: In the Channel.  (Capt. Sampson Edwards)
• 1801: Nelson's flagship in the Baltic before and after the Battle of Copenhagen.  During the battle, she remained in Admiral Hyde Parker's division under Capt. Thomas Hardy, and so did not take an active role in the battle.
• 24th Dec 1811: Wrecked in a gale off the west coast of Jutland (a peninsula in Denmark), along with the Defence.  All but 12 crew died, including Captain Daniel Guion.

The Elephant as shown in the game Napoleon: Total War

74-gun 3rd rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in 1786.
• Broken up in 1830.
• She was Vice-Admiral Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Copenhagen, 29th March - 2nd April 1801, with Captain Thomas Foley.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Copenhagen: Nelson's flagship, with Capt. Thomas Foley.

Career:

• 1800: With the Channel Fleet off Brest. (Capt. Thomas Foley)
• March 1801: Joined Admiral Hyde Parker's Baltic fleet.  (Capt. Thomas Foley)
• 2nd April 1801: Fought at the Battle of Copenhagen as Nelson's flagship, with Captain Thomas Foley.  She was chosen by Nelson as she sailed better in shallow water than the ship he'd sailed to the Baltic in, the St. George.
• 17th April: Nelson had gone back to the St. George after the battle, but transferred back to the Elephant as he thought he might have to chase the Swedish fleet through shallow water.  (Capt. Thomas Foley)
• September 1803: Present when the French 74 Duquesne was captured; she chased the Duguay-Trouin (also a 74), but it escaped; the Guerrière (40) also escaped.  (Capt. George Dundas)
• October 1803: Captured the French Mars (Capt. George Dundas)
• 1805: Off the Texel (a Dutch island).  (Capt. George Dundas)
• 1806: On the Jamaica station. (Capt. George Morris)
• 1811: With the Hermes, chased and captured the Swordfish, a 12-gun American privateer. 
• 1814: Out of commission in Portsmouth; reduced to 58 guns in 1818.

16-gun brig-sloop

• Launched in 1795.
• Sold in September 1805.
• In June 1801, she took Nelson back to England from the Baltic.

Career:

• 6th March 1796: With the Andromeda frigate, took the Dutch 36-gun frigate Zephier.
• May 1798: Part of the expedition supporting the army in Ostende, Belgium.  (Commander William Brown)
• June 1801: Carried Nelson back to England from the Baltic.  (Lieut. Stephen Digby)
• Sept 1803: Involved in the bombardment of Granville, on the Channel coast of France.  (Commander Philip Pipon)

32-gun 5th rate frigate

• Launched in France in 1796.
• Sold in May 1802
• She carried Vice-Admiral Nelson for two days, 27th - 29th July 1801, with Thomas Hardy as Captain.

Career:

• 13th April 1796: Captured by a squadron under Sir Edward Pellew in the Channel.
• 1797: involved in the captures of French privateers La Brunette (10), L'Indienne (16) and La Découverte (18).
• 2nd Feb 1800: Captured French privateer Persévérance (16) in the Leeward Islands station.

32-gun 5th rate frigate

• Launched in April 1801. 
• Broken up in November 1816.
• She was Nelson's flagship for the attacks on Boulogne in August 1801.  (Capt. John Gore)

Career:

• Dec 1803: With Nelson's fleet in the Mediterranean.  Captured French privateers Esperance and Sorcier.
• 5th Oct 1804: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Maria.  British frigate squadron comprising of the Indefatigable, Amphion and Lively, took three Spanish frigates, the Fama, Medea and Clara, and blew up another, the Mercedes.  (Capt. John Gore)
• 23rd Oct 1804: Captured the Spanish frigate Santa Matilda (38)
• 1805: With Cornwallis' fleet in the East Indies.  (Capt. Adam Drummond)
• Oct 1806 - Sept 1807: With operations in the Rio de la Plata (Capt. Dancombe Pleydall Bouverie)
• April 1808: Captured the French privateer Actif in the Channel (Capt. Bouverie)
• Jan 1810: Captured the French privateers Aventure (14) and Hirondelle (14).  (Capt. Bouverie)
• June 1812: Sent boats to cut the French store-ship Dorado out of the harbour of Arcasson, but she grounded and was burnt.  (Capt. Bouverie)
• June - Aug 1812: With a squadron under Admiral Home Popham helping the Spanish against the French on the north coast of Spain.  (Capt. Bouverie)
• 1813: Became a hospital ship.

32-gun 5th rate frigate

• Launched in March 1798.
• Broken up in 1823.
• Conveyed Vice-Admiral Nelson as Commander-in-Chief to the Mediterranean from May - July 1803, with Captain Thomas Hardy.

Career:

• 1799: At Jamaica.  On the 25th November, captured a Spanish privateer, Asturiana.
• Oct 1802: Took Lord Fitzgerald as ambassador to Portugal.
• May 1803: Took Nelson from England to the Mediterranean fleet.  Captain Thomas Hardy transferred to the Victory with Nelson once there, and Captain Samuel Sutton switched from the Victory to the Amphion.
• 5th Oct 1804: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Maria (see the Medusa for details).  (Capt. Sutton)
• Oct 1805: Went to Lisbon so Captain Sutton could be replaced with Captain William Hoste due to ill health; then went with Hoste to Algiers to deliver Nelson's letters to the Dey. 
• May 1806: Joined Sir Sidney Smith's squadron guarding Sicily.
• June 1806: Amphion's boats attacked a castle at Cirello in Calabria (southern Italy).
• July 1806: Assisted with the British troops landing at Calabria, which led to the Battle of Maida.  Then assisted with the landing of troops to attack French bases at Cantazaro and Crotone, and fired on French reinforcements.  Returned to Palermo in August.
• May 1808: With Admiral Collingwood's fleet in the Mediterranean.  Captured a French frigate, the Baleine, which was deliberately run aground at the Bay of Roses.  (Capt. William Hoste)
• Nov 1808: Joined the blockade of Trieste (north-east Italy).  Rescued two British officers who had escaped after being taken prisoner by the French.
• Feb 1809: Boats from the Amphion and Redwing landed on the island of Meleda in the Adriatic (now the Croatian Mljet), destroyed stores and captured a brig and storeship.  (Capt. Hoste)
• April 1809: Boats from the Amphion, Spartan and Mercury attacked the port of Pesaro (north-east Italy), destroyed a fort and captured 13 merchant ships.  (Capt. Hoste)
• Aug 1809: Amphion's crew took the fort at the port of Cortelazzo (at the mouth of the Piave river, north Italy, between Venice and Trieste); they then turned the fort's guns on six gunboats, which surrendered, and the fort was destroyed.  Two storeships were captured, four were burnt.  (Capt. Hoste)
• June 1810: With the Cerberus and Active, stormed two forts at Grado (between Venice and Trieste) after chasing a convoy into the harbour; then took five merchant ships and burnt eleven.  (Capt. Hoste)
• Oct 1810: The Amphion and Active were chased by a French squadron from Ancona.  They were later reinforced by the Cerberus and Acorn from Lissa (a British base, now the Croatian island of Vis in the Adriatic) but by that time the French ships were back in Ancona.  Later, the Amphion collided with the Volage and had to be repaired. 
• 13th March 1811: Was the flagship, under Captain Hoste, for the Battle of Lissa.  Four British frigates fought against a squadron of seven French and Venetian.  The French Commodore's flagship, Favorite, was run aground, and the Commodore - as well as almost all the officers on his ship - was killed.  Two French frigates, the Corona and Bellona, were captured, and renamed Daedalus and Dover respectively.  Prior to the battle, William Hoste, one of Nelson's protégés, emulated his hero by raising the inspirational signal "Remember Nelson" before the battle, which was greeted by cheers from the whole squadron.
• 1813: Recommissioned for the North Sea fleet.  Her crew occupied the island of Schowen (belonging to the Netherlands) and captured a French battery at Tholen.
• 1814: Unsuccessfully attacked French ships in the West Scheldt (a river in the Netherlands).  (Capt. James Pattison Stewart)
• Oct 1815: Escorted a convoy to Bermuda.
• 1820: Sunk as a breakwater in Woolwich. 
• 1823: Wreck sold to be broken up.

Victory by Geoff Hunt

100-gun 1st rate ship-of-the-line

• Launched in May 1765.
• Nelson's most famous ship, she was his flagship from the beginning of the Trafalgar Campaign in 1803, until his death during the battle on 21st October 1805.  She conveyed his body home, and has been preserved in Portsmouth ever since.

Presence at Nelson's battles:

• Cape St. Vincent: The flagship of Admiral John Jervis, with Captain George Grey.
• Trafalgar: Nelson's flagship, with Captain Thomas Hardy.

Career:

• 27th July 1778: Fought at the 1st Battle of Ushant (100 miles from the French island of Ushant in the far western end of the English Channel).  She was the flagship of Admiral Augustus Keppel, with Captain John Lindsay.  A fleet of 30 British came up against 27 French, and though the French wanted to avoid battle, a change in the wind forced them into it.  After the action, Keppel signalled for the British ships to re-form and chase the French.  Vice-Admiral Robert Harland in the Queen led the van division and obeyed the signal, but Vice-Admiral Hugh Palliser did not do the same with his division, and so the battle wasn't resumed.  Keppel and Palliser were both court-martialled and both acquitted, but Keppel resigned from the navy.
• 12th Dec 1781: Fought in the 2nd Battle of Ushant, and was the flagship of Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfett, with Captain Henry Cromwell.  13 British ships attacked a convoy of 20 French transport ships accompanied by 11 ships-of-the-line, one 50-gun ship, and 5 frigates.  There wasn't a battle as such, but the British were able to cut off the convoy from their escorts, and carry off 15 transports with supplies and troops intended for the West Indies. 
• 20th Oct 1782: Battle of Cape Spartel (in Morrocco).  Flagship of Admiral Richard Howe, with Captain Henry Duncan.  The action was fought between a fleet of 34 British against 46 Franco-Spanish, led by Admiral Luis Córdova.  Howe escorted a merchant convoy to Gibraltar, which was being blockaded by the French/Spanish.  The convoy managed to evade the blockade and get into Gibraltar.  Cordova chased after Howe and tried to force a battle, but the British ships were faster and escaped.
• 1793: Joined the Mediterranean fleet under Vice-Admiral Alexander Hood.
• April 1794: At Bastia, which was taken on the 21st of May (with Nelson in the Agamemnon).  (Capt. John Knight)
• June 1794: At Calvi, which was taken on 10th August (with Nelson in the Agamemnon).  (Capt. Knight)
• August 1794: Left Bastia to chase a French squadron which got into Gourjean Bay (at Ile Sainte-Marguerite, off Cannes in France).  Hood then went back to Corsica, leaving a squadron to blockade the French - however, the French ships escaped during a storm and got to Toulon.
• Nov 1794: Took Hood back to England.
• 13th July 1795: Fought at the Battle of Hyères Islands; flagship of Rear-Admiral Robert Mann, with Captain John Knight.  With the Culloden and Cumberland, Victory attacked the French 74 Alcide, which later exploded as Victory prevented French frigates from towing her to safety.  But the end result was indecisive.  See the Agamemnon for more details.
• Nov 1795: Admiral Hotham was replaced by Admiral John Jervis, who took Victory as his flagship and cruised between Toulon and Minorca.
• 14th Feb 1797: Fought at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent as the flagship of Admiral Jervis, with Captain George Grey.  Nelson was present in the Captain.
• 1797-99: Became a prison ship at Chatham.
• 1800-03: Underwent a major repair and refitting.
• 1803-05: Nelson's flagship throughout the Trafalgar Campaign and Battle.
• 22nd Dec 1805: Arrived at Chatham with Nelson's body.
• May-Oct 1808: With Vice-Admiral James Saumarez's fleet in the Baltic (Captain George Hope); in August, was with the Swedish fleet blockading the Russians in Rogerswick.
• From 1812, she was out of commission in Portsmouth.  She was drydocked in January 1922, and remains there to this day, under restoration.