HMS Theseus — Overview

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An orlop cockpit surgery scene. Not Theseus and not a portrait.

Overview

Theseus is already on Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797. Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview’s right arm was amputated aboard her at 11pm on 24 July 1797, about thirty minutes after he returned from the night assault.¹

Service

This note covers that surgery only. A gun-count, a launch year, a captain, and a later career stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus performed the amputation. The surgical log and the 11pm figure are White p.112. Some accounts time the operation differently; that contest stays on the Tenerife note.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson — p.112
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797

Related

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Same Subject

• Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview

Cross-Domain

• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Amputation aboard Theseus, 11pm, 24 July 1797, about thirty minutes after return: Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797, citing White p.112. ↩

2. Eshelby as the surgeon; White p.112 as the vault figure; timing otherwise contested on the Tenerife note. Do not invent a gun-count, a launch year, or a later career. ↩