THE TRAFALGAR ROLL
The Battle of Trafalgar 21st. October 1805
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The Captains And Their Ships
Thomas Hardy | Victory |
Charles Bullen | Britannia |
Thomas Fremantle | Neptune |
Richard Grindall | Prince |
William Hargood | Belleisle |
Francis Laforey | Spartiate |
Philip Durham | Defiance |
Israel Pellew | Conqueror |
James Morris | Colossus |
Henry Bayntun | Leviathan |
Edward Codrington | Orion |
Lieut. John Pilford | Ajax *** |
Robert Redmill | Polyphemus |
Edward Berry | Agamemnon |
Thomas Capel | Phoebe * |
William Prowse | Sirius * |
Edward Rotherham | Royal Sovereign |
Eliab Harvey | Temeraire |
John Conn | Dreadnought |
Charles Tyler | Tonnant |
Robert Moorsom | Revenge |
George Duff (D) | Mars ** |
Charles Mansfield | Minotaur |
Richard King | Achilles |
George Hope | Defence |
John Cooke (D) | Bellerophon |
William Rutherford | Swiftsure |
Lieut. John Stockham | Thunderer *** |
Henry Digby | Africa |
Henry Blackwood | Euryalus * |
Thomas Dundas | Naiad * |
The Commanders
Vice Admiral Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe KB, RN.
Commander in Chief, Mediterranean Fleet
HMS Victory Captain Thomas Hardy
Vice Admiral Sir Cuthbert Collingwood KB, RN
Second in command, leading the Lee Column
HMS Royal Sovereign Captain Edward Rotherham
Rear Admiral the Earl of Northesk KB, RN
Third in Command, followed Nelson in the Weather Column
HMS Britannia Captain Charles Bullen
The Battle of Trafalgar
Fought on the 21st. October 1805, effectively ended the war at sea.
Lord Nelson died at about 4.30pm. by which time he knew that he had achieved the overwhelming victory that he had planned so carefully. Nelson had left nothing to chance. The two-column, right-angled attack worked exactly as he had intended by splitting the enemy fleet into smaller groups that immediately fell prey to the guns of the British fleet.