Boreas Mast-Head — Midshipmen

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Ships under sail. Not a named portrait of Boreas.

Overview

The three-year no-death claim stays on its own page. This note covers the midshipmen only: the race to the mast-head, the school-room, and the quadrant at noon.¹

The Midshipmen

Southey says the Boreas was full of young midshipmen, not less than thirty on board. When a boy was afraid at first going aloft, Nelson raced that frightened midshipman to the mast-head himself. The boy climbed as he could; Nelson never noticed in what manner they went up. They met in the top. Every day he went into the school-room to see that they were pursuing their nautical studies; and at noon he was always the first on deck with his quadrant.²

The no-death claim stays on Boreas Three Years No Deaths. The 1784 sketches stay on Mary Moutray — English Harbour 1784. This page does not invent a midshipman’s name.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Boreas Three Years No Deaths

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Footnotes

1. Three-year no-death claim only: Boreas Three Years No Deaths. ↩

2. Raced a frightened midshipman aloft; daily school-room; first on deck with his quadrant; not less than thirty midshipmen. @southey1813nelson vol. 1, pp. 52–53 (1813). Do not invent a midshipman’s name. ↩