Berry Edward — British Captain

Generated portrait. Not a historical photograph.

Overview

Captain Berry commanded HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship as Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview’s flag captain at the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview on 1 August 1798. The battle overview already names him in that post in Aboukir Bay — Egypt.¹

Career and Key Roles

This note covers that evening only. Birth, the 14 February 1797 boarding on Nelson’s Patent Bridge for Boarding First Rates, and later years stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory was posted into Vanguard on 2 October 1798 — that next fact is already on the Hardy and Vanguard notes.

Nelson signalled the attack at 3pm and chose dusk in uncharted shoal water. Foley Thomas — British Captain in HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate led five ships inside the French line. Action opened at 6:30pm. L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship exploded around 10pm with Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral aboard.²

Sources

• @knight2005pursuit — pp. 281–320
• @white2005nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
• HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Persons
• Military_Commanders_Index
• British_Age_of_Sail_Commanders_Index

Discovered From

• Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview

Same Battle

• HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship
• Foley Thomas — British Captain
• HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate
• Aboukir Bay — Egypt
• L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
• Brueys d’Aigalliers François-Paul — French Admiral

Cross-Domain

• Line of Battle — Naval Tactic
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Flag captain of Vanguard, 1 August 1798: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview and the Vanguard note. ↩

2. 3pm signal, dusk, shoal, Foley, 6:30pm, L’Orient ~10pm: same battle note. Do not add life dates or the 1797 boarding until those stay on their own notes. ↩