Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780

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

Overview

Nelson Post-Captain — 1779 already records the 1779 captaincy without a ship. Collingwood Succeeds Nelson — 1779–1780 already records the Hinchinbrook succession. This note covers the 1780 crew-mortality figure only. The river siege stays on RESEARCH_QUEUE.¹

The Figure

Southey gives the complement and the loss: the Hinchinbrook’s complement consisted of two hundred men; eighty-seven took to their beds in one night; and of the whole crew not more than ten survived.²

Caribbean malaria as a named disease stays on Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean. Southey’s figure here is mortality, not a diagnosis.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Nelson Post-Captain — 1779
• Collingwood Succeeds Nelson — 1779–1780

Related

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• MOC_Food_Provisioning
• Disease_Nutrition_Index

Same Subject

• Malaria — Nelson in the Caribbean
• Nelson Post-Captain — 1779
• Collingwood Succeeds Nelson — 1779–1780
• San Bartolomeo — Boarded Barefoot
• Janus Cot — Port Royal — cot landing only
• San Juan Expedition — 1800 Sent — expedition-wide figure only

Cross-Domain

• Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• @southey1813nelson

Footnotes

1. 1779 captaincy without a ship: Nelson Post-Captain — 1779. Hinchinbrook succession only: Collingwood Succeeds Nelson — 1779–1780. ↩

2. “The Hinchinbrook’s complement consisted of two hundred men; eighty-seven took to their beds in one night; and of the whole crew not more than ten survived.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 38 (1813). Do not add the river forts or a disease name on this page. ↩