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Boreas Three Years No Deaths

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Boreas Three Years No Deaths

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A sailing fleet. Not a named portrait of Boreas.

Overview

Mary Moutray — English Harbour 1784 already records the English Harbour household. This note covers Southey’s three-year no-death claim for Boreas only. The Navigation Act seizures stay on Navigation Act — Boreas Enforcement. The later Nore slop-ship months stay on Boreas Nore Slop Ship.1

The Claim

Southey says that during the three years the Boreas remained upon a station which is usually so fatal, not a single officer or man of her whole complement had died. He ascribes that mostly to a healthy season, and in some measure also to the captain: he never suffered the ships to remain more than three or four at a time at any of the islands; and when the hurricane months confined him to English Harbour, he encouraged music, dancing, and cudgelling among the men, and theatricals among the officers.2

English Harbour as a household stays on Mary Moutray — English Harbour 1784. This page does not invent a complement number or a surgeon’s name.

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Footnotes

  1. English Harbour household only: Mary Moutray — English Harbour 1784. ↩

  2. “During the three years that the Boreas had remained upon a station which is usually so fatal, not a single officer or man of her whole complement had died.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 73 (1813). Do not invent a complement number or a surgeon. ↩

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