Calvi Sick-List — 150 in Beds

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A sailing fleet. Not a portrait.

Overview

Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794 already records the wound. The omitted name stays on Calvi Wounded-List Omission. The lion-sun figure stays on Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick. This note covers the 150 / fifty figure only.¹

The Figure

Southey says 150 of the ship’s company were in their beds when he left Calvi; of them he lost fifty.²

A named disease stays off this page. The Hinchinbrook two-hundred / ten-survived figure stays on Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780. Vado Bay stays on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• HMS Agamemnon — Overview

Related

Navigation

• MOC_Food_Provisioning
• Disease_Nutrition_Index

Same Subject

• HMS Agamemnon — Overview
• Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794
• Calvi Wounded-List Omission
• Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick
• Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780
• Boreas Three Years No Deaths
• Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean

Cross-Domain

• Bastia Landing — 4 April 1794
• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• @southey1813nelson

Footnotes

1. Wound only: Nelson — Loss of Eye at Calvi 1794. Omitted name: Calvi Wounded-List Omission. Lion sun: Calvi Lion Sun — Half Sick. ↩

2. “150 were in their beds when he left Calvi; of them he lost fifty.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 120 (1813). Do not recopy the eye. Do not invent a disease name. ↩