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Deal Boatmen Fifteen Guineas — Downs Gale

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Deal Boatmen Fifteen Guineas — Downs Gale

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A storm at sea. Not the Downs in 1782, and not a portrait of Albemarle.

Overview

Albemarle at Elsinore already records the Elsinore reply. This note covers the Downs gale and the Deal-boat passage only. A later Albemarle cruise and a mast-shortening stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.1

The Passage

Southey says that on the return to the Downs, while Nelson was ashore visiting the senior officer, there came on so heavy a gale that almost all the vessels drove, and a store-ship came athwart-hawse of the Albemarle. He feared she would drive on the Goodwin Sands. Even the Deal boatmen thought it impossible to get on board. At length some of the most intrepid offered to make the attempt for fifteen guineas. He embarked during the height of the tempest and, with great difficulty, reached her. She lost her bowsprit and foremast, but escaped further injury.2

The Elsinore reply stays on Albemarle at Elsinore. This page does not invent a date beyond Southey’s 1782 running-head, and it does not name the store-ship.

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Footnotes

  1. Elsinore reply only: Albemarle at Elsinore. ↩

  2. “At length some of the most intrepid offered to make the attempt for fifteen guineas: and, to the astonishment and fear of all the beholders, he embarked during the height of the tempest. With great difficulty and imminent danger he succeeded in reaching her. She lost her bowsprit and foremast, but escaped further injury.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 41–42 (1813). Do not invent the store-ship’s name or a day-date. ↩

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