Hardy Shoe-Buckle — Trafalgar 21 October 1805

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. Two British columns. Not a buckle plate and not a likeness.

Overview

The buckle is already on Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory. At the Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview a fore-brace splinter tore Hardy’s shoe-buckle on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory — Overview.¹

The Buckle

This note covers that buckle only. A wound catalogue, a gun that threw the splinter, and a spoken line stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type already covers the 32-pounder wound type. Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson already covers the cockpit hours. Spoken lines stay on the Hardy note and the source card, not here.²

Sources

• @beatty1807nelson
• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @white2005nelson
• Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory

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• Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory
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• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson
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Footnotes

1. A fore-brace splinter tore Hardy’s shoe-buckle: Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory. ↩

2. 32-pounder wound type stays on Wooden Splinters — Naval Wound Type. Cockpit hours stay on Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Death of Nelson. Do not recopy a spoken line. Do not invent which gun threw the splinter. ↩