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Boreas Nore Slop Ship

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Boreas Nore Slop Ship

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Overview

The three-year health claim stays on Boreas Three Years No Deaths. This note covers the Nore slop-ship months only. Southey says the Boreas arrived in England in June. Nelson, still in a precarious state of health, had cold, sore throat, and fever in the raw wet weather of that summer.1

The Five Months

Southey says the vessel was kept at the Nore from the end of June till the end of November, serving as a slop and receiving ship. He calls that treatment unworthy, and more probably from intention than from neglect. It excited in Nelson the strongest indignation. During the whole five months he seldom or never quitted the ship, but carried on the duty with strict and sullen attention.2

The spoken resignation to the Medway senior officer stays off this page. Howe’s letter and the levee stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Frances stays off this page.

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  1. Three-year health claim only: Boreas Three Years No Deaths. ↩

  2. “yet his vessel was kept at the Nore from the end of June till the end of November, serving as a slop and receiving ship.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 73–74 (1813). Do not add the spoken resignation on this page. ↩

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