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HMS Triumph — Guard-Ship after Falklands

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HMS Triumph — Guard-Ship after Falklands

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 74. Not a named portrait of Triumph.

Overview

Raisonnable — Nelson Entry 1771 already records the 1771 entry and the paid-off. Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies already records the merchant voyage sent because a guard-ship was too inactive. This note covers Suckling’s removal to Triumph, 74, as a Thames guard-ship only.1

The Guard-Ship

Southey says that the Raisonnable, commissioned on account of the dispute respecting the Falkland Islands, was paid off as soon as the difference with the Court of Spain was accommodated, and Capt. Suckling was removed to the Triumph, 74, then stationed as a guard-ship in the Thames. That posting, not the 64-gun entry, is the ship on this page.2

The merchant voyage stays on Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies. The cutter-and-long-boat reward stays on Chatham to the Tower — Swin Channel Pilotage. This page does not invent a launch year, a later Triumph career, or a complement.

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Footnotes

  1. 64-gun entry and paid-off: Raisonnable — Nelson Entry 1771. Merchant voyage only: Rathbone Merchant Voyage — West Indies. ↩

  2. “The Raisonnable having been commissioned on account of the dispute respecting the Falkland Islands, was paid off as soon as the difference with the Court of Spain was accommodated, and Capt. Suckling was removed to the Triumph, 74, then stationed as a guardship in the Thames.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 9 (1813). Do not invent a launch year. ↩

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