HMS Dolphin — Invalided from India

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 64-gun two-decker. Not a named portrait of Dolphin.

Overview

Seahorse Foretop — Rated Midshipman already records the Seahorse rating. This note covers the East-India illness and the Dolphin passage home only.¹

The Invaliding

Southey says that when Nelson had been about eighteen months in India he felt the effects of that climate. The disease baffled all power of medicine; he was reduced almost to a skeleton; the use of his limbs was for some time entirely lost. He was brought home by Capt. Pigot in the Dolphin. Without that officer’s care on the way, Southey says, Nelson would never have lived to reach his native shores.²

The Seahorse rating stays on Seahorse Foretop — Rated Midshipman. The later acting lieutenancy stays on Worcester Acting Lieutenant — Gibraltar Convoy. This page does not invent a rate for Dolphin, a diagnosis, or a spoken line.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Seahorse Foretop — Rated Midshipman

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Footnotes

1. Seahorse rating only: Seahorse Foretop — Rated Midshipman. ↩

2. “when he had been about eighteen months in India, he felt the effects of that climate, so perilous to European constitutions. The disease baffled all power of medicine; he was reduced almost to a skeleton; the use of his limbs was for some time entirely lost” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 22–23 (1813). Brought home by Capt. Pigot in the Dolphin. Do not invent a rate or add a spoken line. ↩