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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XV. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF WILLIAM DOMETT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY EDWYN STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BERRY, KNT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN GEORGE DUFF, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CUTHBERT LORD COLLINGWOOD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, And Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EARL OF NORTHESK, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, And one of the three Flag Officers who commanded the British Fleet in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar
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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CUTHBERT LORD COLLINGWOOD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, And Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- PLATES IN VOLUME XV. From Original Designs
- PREFACE TO THE FIFTEENTH VOLUME
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF WILLIAM DOMETT, ESQ. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE HONOURABLE HENRY EDWYN STANHOPE, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE SQUADRON
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CAPTAIN SIR EDWARD BERRY, KNT
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE CAPTAIN GEORGE DUFF, WHO FELL IN THE ACTION OFF TRAFALGAR
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF CUTHBERT LORD COLLINGWOOD, VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED, And Commander in Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet
- BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM EARL OF NORTHESK, K.B. REAR-ADMIRAL OF THE RED SQUADRON, And one of the three Flag Officers who commanded the British Fleet in the ever-memorable Battle of Trafalgar
- INDEX
Summary
“Full Many Of Gem Of Purest Ray Serene
The Dark Unfathom'd Caves Of Ocean Bear;
Full Many A Flower Is Born To Blush Unseen,
And Waste Its Sweetness On The Desert Air.”
Gray.It is not the character of the British nation to withhold from its brave defenders the fair fame to which their heroic deeds have led: and if it has been left until now to enrol among our naval worthies the noble Admiral who is the subject of the present memoir, it is to be placed to an account highly honourable to our country, and to the service in which his talents have been employed. “His life,” to use his own modest language, so like to all his other sentiments, “had been a continual service at sea, but unmarked by any of those extraordinary events or brilliant scenes which hold men up to particular attention, and distinguish them from those officers who are zealous and anxious for the public service:”–one among the number of those meritorious officers who are both able and zealous for the public service, but whose good fortune it had not yet been to be brought forward into the more conspicuous sphere of public notice, or to have had the opportunity for which they pant to display their talents in their country's service, and swell the pages of our naval annals with triumphs and achievements of their own.
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- The Naval ChronicleContaining a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects, pp. 353 - 440Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1806