Santa Cruz de Tenerife — Spanish Port

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A night shore at a Spanish port. Not a battle panorama and not a portrait.

Overview

The shore is already on Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797. Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview’s boat touched the shore of this Spanish port. Within minutes, grapeshot shattered his right humerus.¹

The Shore

This note covers that shore only. It is a place note, not a battle rewrite. Fort names, garrison, and a geography beyond the shore of the night assault stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

The wound and the operation that followed live on the Tenerife note, on Amputation Surgery at Sea — 18th Century, and on HMS Theseus — Overview.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Geography_Places
• Ports_Harbours_Index

Same Subject

• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797
• Amputation Surgery at Sea — 18th Century
• Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus
• HMS Theseus — Overview
• Cadiz — Spanish Naval Port

Cross-Domain

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview

Footnotes

1. Boat touched the shore; grapeshot shattered the right humerus within minutes: Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797. ↩

2. Operation aboard Theseus: same note, White p.112. Do not write a battle overview. Do not invent fort names, a garrison, or further geography. ↩