The Trafalgar Chronicle - 2011

THE TRAFALGAR CHRONICLE Journal of The 1805 Club. No. 21, 2011 Editorial – Anthony Cross and Huw Lewis-Jones vi The President’s Dispatch– Admiral Sir Jonathon Band x The Chairman’s Dispatch: Remember Nelson– Peter Warwick xii The Drunken Sailor – John Dacam 1 Towards the Patriotic Fund– Anthony Twist 16 Luke Brokenshaw, Master RN: A Hero of Trafalgar – Nigel Hughes 49 ‘My Gallant Good Friend ...’: The Life of Edward Thornbrough Parker – Richard Venn 58 The Politics of American and British Naval Strategy in the War of 1812 – Stephen Budiansky 75 The Royal Navy and the Peninsular War – Nick Lipscombe 86 Portrait Mezzotints of Nelson in the Lennox-Boyd Collection– Margaret Schutzer-Weissmann 100 The Life and Career of Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats – Stephen Wood 122 Nelson’s Proxy: A Sketch of the Life of Captain Sir William Bolton– Huw Lewis-Jones 149 Model Mystery: New Light on the Building of Nelson’s Column– Elizabeth Jamieson 158 North-West Navigator: The Story of Captain George Vancouver, Part II – E.C. Coleman 170 ‘Keep Watch’: The Navy League in the Interwar Period– Duncan Redford 191 Fougasse Expects – James Taylor 206 The Nelson Interview– Joseph F. Callo 218 HMS Victory’s Last Sea-Going Commission: The Cecil Isaacson Lecture, 2010 – Tim Voelcker 227 Contributors’ Biographies 249 Notes for Contributors 253 iii

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