It is not to be supposed that our enemies quietly accepted the conquest of Gibraltar by Sir George Rooke as final; indeed, a very short time elapsed before they began to make effor...
The founders of the English nation were a maritime people. Before they settled in the British Isles they had to dare the dangers of the deep, and though for nearly four hundred yea...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. On the dismissal of the Earl of Torrington from the command of the navy, Edward Russel was appointed admiral and commander-in-chief; but twelve months elapsed bef...
BY SIR EDWARD CREASY. On the afternoon of July 19th, A.D. 1588, a group of English captains was collected at the bowling green on the Hoe at Plymouth, whose equals have never befor...
BY JAMES ALMS. On July 15th, 1747, Captain Boscawen was made rear admiral of the blue, and placed at the head of a large military and naval expedition dispatched to the East Indies...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. As an illustration of the way in which a man could rise to the highest honours of the navy in the good old days with no other influence or recommendation than his...
The difficulties under which merchantmen carried on their trade with foreign countries before the navy had reduced to order the highway of the seas, is well illustrated in many a n...
A STORY OF "BILLY BLUE." After the defeat of the French by Lord Howe on the 1st of June, 1794, the French navy was much too shattered to attempt anything like offensive warfare for...
BY G. H. WALKER. When the brave die in battle, the ardour which impels them to glory and renders them insensible of their danger leaves a brilliance behind, which mitigates, in a g...
AND THE TROUBLESOME VOYAGE MADE WITH THE JESUS OF LUBECK, THE MINION, AND FOUR OTHER SHIPS TO THE PARTS OF GUINEA AND THE WEST INDIES, IN THE YEARS 1567 AND 1568 BY MASTER JOHN HAW...
The mutiny at Spithead found the British ministry intent upon blocking up the Dutch fleet in the Texel and Admiral Duncan appointed to the duty. The pacific suppression of that for...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. I. THE DEFEAT OF THE DUTCH OFF HARWICH. The second Dutch war was declared in Holland in January and in England in February, 1665. It arose out of the conflicts of...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. Francis Drake is said to have been born at Crowndale, near Tavistock, about the year 1540. Both his birth and his parentage are involved in obscurity; but it is p...
BY G. H. WALKER. The Repulse was one of the ships belonging to the Channel fleet, under the command of Sir Allen Gardner, but had been detached for the purpose of intercepting prov...
AT SPITHEAD, APRIL 15TH.--AT THE NORE, MAY 22nd. In the course of February and March, 1797, Lord Howe received several anonymous letters, enclosing petitions from the ships' compan...
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. Horatio Nelson, son of Edmund and Catherine Nelson, was born September 29th, 1758, in the Rectory of Burnham Thorpe, a village in the county of Norfolk, of which...
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. Sir John Jervis now became commander of the Mediterranean fleet, and Nelson joined him in Fiorenzo Bay. The manner in which Nelson was received is said to have e...
THE BATTLE OF DAMME.--THE BATTLE OF DOVER.--THE BATTLE OF SLUYS.--THE BATTLE OF LESPAGNOLS-SUR-MER.--THE VICTORIES OF THE EARL OF ARUNDEL, THE DUKE OF BEDFORD, THE EARL OF HUNTINGD...
PERFORMED IN THE VOYAGE FROM TURKEY BY FIVE SHIPS OF LONDON, AGAINST ELEVEN GALLEYS AND TWO FRIGATES OF THE KING OF SPAIN'S, AT PANTALAREA, WITHIN THE STRAITS, ANNO 1586. WRITTEN B...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. In the third year of the reign of Henry VIII., Sir Andrew Barton, a Scots seaman, with two stout vessels--the Lion and the Jenny Perwin--ranged the coasts of Engl...
AN ENGLISHMAN, IN DELIVERING TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX CHRISTIANS OUT OF THE CAPTIVITY OF THE TURKS AT ALEXANDRIA, THE 3RD OF JANUARY, 1577. BY RICHARD HAKLUYT. Richard Hakluyt was...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. Robert Blake, who became the admiral of the Commonwealth, was the eldest son of Mr. Humphrey Blake, a Spanish merchant who, having acquired a considerable fortune...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. Sir Edward Howard was the second son of Thomas, Earl of Surrey, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, and treasurer to Henry VIII. He seems to have begun early in life to t...
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. In 1803 the short-lived Peace of Amiens came to an end, and Nelson was re-appointed to the command of the Mediterranean fleet. Hoisting his flag upon the Victory...
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. About the middle of the year 1797 Nelson hoisted his flag as rear-admiral of the blue on board the Theseus. This ship had taken part in the mutiny in England, an...
BY JOHN CAMPBELL. THE BATTLE OF SOUTHWOLD BAY.--THE STORY OF THE EARL OF SANDWICH.--THE INVASION OF HOLLAND. We come now to the story of the third Dutch war, perhaps more frequentl...
THE SIEGE OF BASTIA.--THE SIEGE OF CALVI.--THE ANNEXATION OF CORSICA.--THE CAPTURE OF THE "CA IRA" AND THE "CENSEUR." BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. On January 30th, 1793, by the united intere...
BY G. H. WALKER. Admiral (afterwards Lord) Graves having requested leave to return to England in 1782, was appointed by Lord Rodney to command the convoy sent home with a numerous...
BY MASTER CAMBRIDGE. The melancholy fate of the Namur, which was lost at the same time and place as the Pembroke, has already been related. The calamity which befell the latter was...
BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. In the year 1801, Nelson, who had been made vice-admiral of the blue, was sent to the Baltic, as second in command under Sir Hyde Parker, by Earl St. Vincent, no...