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AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY COMMEMORATIVE ‘NELSON’ FOB SEAL
the 10mm. shoulder-length bust mounted in Pinchbeck fob with later Albert chain
£150-250 57.
H.M.S. AGAMEMNON: CAPTAIN HORATIO NELSON TO COMMODORE ROBERT LINZEE -- AN AUTOGRAPH REQUEST FOR SUPPLIES, PROBABLY AT CAGLIARI, OCTOBER 1793
written in a clear hand over half a folded sheet now laid on board, addressed to Commodore Linzee / Adelaide and urgently requesting rope, blocks and bales of sail cloth ...[as] we have not a fathom of rope in the ship... I would be much obligd Believe Me Dear Sir / Yours Most faithfully / Horatio Nelson -- 6¾ x 8¾in. (17 x 22cm.), framed and glazed with notes behind
Shortly after Louis XVI’s execution in January 1793 precipitated hostilities between England and France, Nelson was delighted to be given command of his first ship-of-the-line. Although only a 64-gun ship, the twelve year old Agamemnon had a reputation for speed and being able to pack a punch. Nelson initially sailed to Toulon via Naples (where he first encountered Lady Hamilton) and thence on the 8th October with orders from Admiral Hood for Cmdr Robert Linzee’s squadron at Cagliari, Southern Sardinia. On the 22nd, Agamemnon was in action with the rear guard of a French convoy and nearly sank the 44-gun Melpomème after a protracted action lasting until nightfall. Returning to Cagliari to refit, Linzee (aboard the Adelaide) found that Hood had ordered him to Tunis suggesting this note was sent shortly after the action.
£1500-2000 58.
58 (detail showing plan of Trafalgar)
AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL MARINE’S PRIVATE POCKET JOURNAL, KEPT BY LT. PAUL HARRIS NICHOLAS ABOARD H.M.S. BELLEISLE AND INCLUDING HIS SERVICE AT TRAFALGAR
begun on 6th July 1805 and written in a small, neat hand over thirty pages (sixty sides) and noting his part in various actions and events, noting men wounded, transfers, the Death of Nelson, with good narrative descriptions over several pages, the account of Trafalgar taking up seventeen sides and including plan of attack, bound between original board with brass clasp -- 3¼ x 4¾in. (8 x 12cm.)
Lieutenant Paul Harris Nicholas (c.1790-1860) became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Marines on 6 July 1805, was promoted Lieutenant on 27 July 1808 and was placed on half-pay (effectively retired) in September 1814. He served in the 74-gun Belleisle at Trafalgar, under Captain William Hargood, and is known to have produced at least one other watercolour of the battle showing the position of his own ship at 1.00pm.; Belleisle was so badly damaged by enemy fire that she eventually had to be towed out of the action by the frigate Naiad.
After Trafalgar, Nicholas also saw action in the attack on the Basque Roads in 1810 and survived to receive the Naval General Service medal with two clasps in 1848. One of his brothers was Sir N.H. Nicholas, G.C.M.G., the compiler of the monumental work which published all Lord Nelson’s extant letters and despatches in the 1840s.
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