...Majesty's reign.

By command of their Lordships
EVAN NEPEAN.

J. GAMBIER.
W. YOUNG.
R. M.

....service Hereof nor you nor any of you may fail as you will answer the contrary at your
peril
And for so doing this shall be your warrant
Given under our hands and the seal of the office of Admiralty this twenty-eighth day of March 1800 in the fortieth year of His...

...obedience unto you their said commander and you likewise to observe and execute the general printed instructions and such orders and directions as you shall from time to time receive from us or any other your superior officers for His Majesty's...

....to go on board and take upon you the charge and command of commander in her
accordingly Strictly charging and commanding all the officers and company of the said sloop to behave themselves jointly and severally in their respective employments with all due respect and...

....To the Right Hon"e Lord Cochrane hereby appointed Commander of His
Majesty's sloop the Speedy.

By virtue of the power and authority to us given we do hereby constitute and appoint
you commander of His Majesty's sloop the Speedy willing and requiring you forthwith...

...the command of the Speedy, then lying at Port Mahon .

By the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of
Great Britain and Ireland & and of all His Majesty's Plantations &e,...

....managed, before reaching Mahon, to put the Généreux into tolerable order. .....His lordship was so well satisfied with my conduct of the Généreux as to write home to the Admiralty recommending my pro- motion, at the same time appointing me to...

...Archibald, whom Lord Keith had permitted to accompany me, that the men could be induced to furl the mainsail. Fortunately the weather moderated, or the safety of the ship might have been compromised; but by dint of hard work, as far as the ill- health of the crew would allow, we...

...swayed with every roll of the ship to such a degree that it became dangerous to go aloft; the shrouds alternately straining almost to breaking, or hanging in festoons, as the masts jerked from side to side with the roll of the vessel. It was only by going aloft myself together with my brother...

...carry her to Port Mahon. A crew was hastily made up of sick and invalided men drafted from the ships of the fleet, and with these we proceeded on our voyage, but only to find ourselves in imminent danger from a gale of wind. The rigging not having been properly set up, the masts...

Battle of the Malta Convoy, HMS Success attacks Généreux. HMS Foudroyant follows up in the background. Artist: E.H. Dyason

HMS Speedy by Geoff Hunt

A Well Earned Promotion

'After quitting Palermo, and when passing the Straits of Messina, Lord Keith placed me as prizemaster in command of the Généreux, 74 - shortly before captured by Lord Nelson's squadron - with orders to...
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Looking forward to attending the Chilean Navy Day Commemoration Service in Westminster Abbey again and paying tribute to Lord Cochrane whose autobiography got me into sailing square riggers.

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Highly recommended!!

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Ep 225: Stephen prepares to play his part in Jack’s Mauritius mission. We have reflections on natural philosophy, a covert mission ashore, and co-operation with the Army in the first action of the campaign - but will it be a success for all concerned? Plus - more parrot revelations.

....Most authors come to the conclusion that Cochrane was innocent and should not have been convicted.
But why was Cochrane not defended separately? Why did he not disassociate himself from his uncle Cochrane Johnstone? Was family loyalty really the reason for his decision?

....Chile's, Peru's and Brazil's gain.

To the end of his long and eventful life he protested his innocence.
"God is my judge that the crime imputed to me I did not commit."

The question of his guilt or innocence is still discussed in various publications. ....

.....to him and his young wife Kate was carrying their first child) turned into the darkest of his life.
Four years later Cochrane, with his wife Kate and their two sons, sailed to South America. Britain's loss would soon become...

...for Cochrane, a man to whom dishonourable conduct in any form was anathema.
A year which had started on a very promising note (he had been appointed flag captain of HMS Tonnant, a patent for his newly designd lamp had been granted....

....was struck out of the list of captains in the Royal Navy. The pillory sentence was later remitted because it most likely would have caused a riot.
To be convicted for a crime he had not committed was a traumatising experience....

....up at Cochrane's house in Green Street while his Lordship was supervising the production of his new convoy lamp at Mr. King's tin factory at Snow Hill.
He was fined, imprisoned for a year, stripped of his knighthood and his name....

...which ultimately led to a trial before Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough. Cochrane's conviction on the basis of mere circumstantial evidence was mainly based on the fact that the officer who spread the false news of Napoleon's defeat showed...

....was killed and his army defeated caused a temporary rise in British Funds.
Lord Cochrane had been buying and selling stocks for a considerable time prior to February 1814 and was among those who made profits on 21 February.
Several months of investigation followed....

212th Anniversary of the Great Stock Exchange Fraud

21 February is a date which was deeply ingrained in Thomas Cochrane's mind and to the end of his life he referred to 21 February as 'the day of my ruin'.
On this day in 1814 news that Napoleon....
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Finished!
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After 38 years I have picked up a pencil again....
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Highly recommended!!

...been subdued into perfect order.'

American Consul General Prevost in a dispatch sent in 1819

....discipline of the crews that would have appalled a less determined character - men of every grade and description assembled from different parts of the Globe for the purpose of plunder as of promoting the cause of freedom have by his address, firmness and perseverance...

'When I take into view the materials with which he had to operate, I think he deserves infinite praise for having maintained the Sovereignty of the Ocean.He had difficulties to encounter in the organisation of the marine and in the..
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