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Janus Cot — Port Royal

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Janus Cot — Port Royal

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Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780 already records the crew-mortality figure. San Bartolomeo — Boarded Barefoot already records the 9 April battery. This note covers the Janus appointment and the cot landing only.1

The Cot

Southey says Nelson was saved by a timely removal. In a few days after the commencement of the siege he was seized with the prevailing dysentery; Capt. Glover died, and Nelson was appointed to succeed him in the Janus, of 44 guns. He was so greatly reduced by the disorder that when they reached Port Royal he was carried ashore in his cot. Finding himself, after a partial amendment, unable to retain the command of his new ship, he was compelled to ask leave to return to England.2

The two-hundred / ten-survived figure stays on Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780. The manchineel spring stays on Manchineel Spring — San Juan 1780. The Lion passage and Bath stay on HMS Lion — Cornwallis Passage. This page does not invent a later Janus career.

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  1. Complement two hundred; not more than ten survived: Hinchinbrook San Juan Mortality — 1780. 9 April battery only: San Bartolomeo — Boarded Barefoot. ↩

  2. “when they reached Port Royal he was carried ashore in his cot; and finding himself, after a partial amendment, unable to retain the command of his new ship, he was compelled to ask leave to return to England, as the only means of recovery.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 39 (1813). The Lion passage stays on HMS Lion — Cornwallis Passage. Do not invent a later Janus career. ↩

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