Hallowell Coffin — L’Orient Mainmast

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A night anchorage. Not a portrait.

Overview

The explosion stays on L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship. The later brandy-cask and state funeral stay off this page. This note covers the coffin gift only.¹

The Gift

Southey says part of the Orient’s main-mast was picked up by the Swiftsure. Captain Hallowell ordered his carpenter to make a coffin of it; the iron as well as the wood was taken from the wreck of the same ship.²

Hallowell’s covering letter stays off this page as a spoken isolate. Burial at St Paul’s stays on Nelson’s State Funeral — Body Brought Home.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship

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Footnotes

1. Explosion only: L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship. Do not recopy the brandy cask. ↩

2. “Part of the Orient’s main-mast was picked up by the Swiftsure. Captain Hallowell ordered his carpenter to make a coffin of it.” @southey1813nelson vol. 1, p. 238 (1813). Do not add the covering letter as a spoken isolate on this page. ↩