Part 19

'All the time the navigating lieutenant, with eyes fixed on the chart, was calmly moving the vessel up and down a narrow tortuous passage which we could distinctly see, by peering over the side of the vessel, for the reefs on either flank of the narrow channel glistened from out the blue-black of the waters.'

Here is Lord Charles Beresford's own account of the _Condor's_ day at Alexandria, as briefly given once to an interviewer. 'The _Temeraire_ got aground on the northern part of the Boghaz Pass, so we went down and towed her off. Whilst doing so the Marabout Fort opened fire on the English ships inside the bar. The idea struck me that the _Condor_ being small, with low freeboard, might get through the zone of fire and under the fort. It wasn't altogether easy work, for had one shell struck the _Condor_ fair and square we should have been sunk to a dead certainty. However, she was easy to handle, and when once we were on the angle of the fort and under it we were all right. My dodge was to throw a couple of missiles into the fort at a time, and then back or fill, as the case might be, so that just when the Egyptians thought they had got our right range, the _Condor_ was out of the way, and so it went on pretty well all day.[122] The men behaved splendidly,--upon my word, I don't think they have their equals!'

For upwards of two hours the _Condor_ fought Fort Marabout, and then the Admiral, apparently thinking that she had as much as she could manage, signalled to the _Beacon_, another gun-vessel (Commander G.W. Hand), and the senior officer's ship of the flotilla, for the _Bittern_, _Cygnet_, and _Decoy_ to go to her assistance. The fort, though, had already, by that, been practically subdued. The Egyptians had had enough, and soon afterwards ceased firing, although they kept their flag flying until next day, when the officer who is now Admiral Sir A.K. Wilson, V.C., landed, and hauled it down. He presented the colours of Marabout to Lord Charles Beresford, in whose possession they are now, together with another trophy of the fight, a fragment of one of the _Condor's_ shells which was found to have passed through the magazine of Fort Marabout, and did not explode until outside. Among his most treasured mementos Lord Charles also preserves the _Condor's_ binnacle, as taken from the ship when, some ten or twelve years later, she passed into the shipbreakers' hands at Dead Man's Bay, Plymouth Sound.

In her action with Fort Marabout the _Condor_ expended over nineteen and a half hundredweights of powder (a ton all but fifty-four pounds), and two hundred and one projectiles:--65 rounds of 7-inch shell, 128 64-pounder shells, and eight 7-pounder shells; besides 200 rounds of Gatling gun ammunition, 13 war-rockets, and 1000 rounds of Martini-Henry small-arm ammunition.

When the gun-boats had finished their work Admiral Seymour made the signal of recall, and they returned, passing close to the _Invincible_ to their stations.

Now it was that the celebrated signal to the _Condor_ was made. The little vessel was passing the flagship, from on board which the _Invincible's_ men were cheering her enthusiastically, when the Admiral on the quarter-deck turned to his flag-lieutenant, Lieutenant Hedworth Lambton,--the future captain of the _Powerful_ and the man who saved Ladysmith,--and said, as if musing to himself, 'I should like to tell them something.' Lieutenant Lambton made a suggestion, and within less than a minute, the flags went up at the _Invincible's_ mast-head making the words, 'Well Done, _Condor_!' That is the story of the _Condor_ at Alexandria. The day ended for her with covering the landing-party sent ashore at the close of the bombardment to spike the guns of Fort Mex.

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The story of the _Condor_ alone, of all the ships at the bombardment of Alexandria, has been told. For one reason or another, what the little gun-boat did in the action appealed specially to people at the time, and attracted universal attention. It was, of course, largely a matter of opportunity--the seizing of an exceptional chance for an effort of individual daring. All at Alexandria did well, and the _Condor_ had the best of the luck. In fairness, a few words must be also said of others of the ships present on the occasion, and of the part that they individually took in the fighting.

In addition to the _Condor_, another ship won the honour of a special signal 'Well Done!' from the Admiral--the big _Inflexible_, captained on that day by the officer who is now Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher, G.C.B., First Sea Lord of the Admiralty. The _Inflexible_ during the earlier part of the engagement was posted outside the reefs off the 'Corvette Pass' entrance to Alexandria harbour, enfilading the Lighthouse batteries. 'It is invidious to particularise,' says the _Times_ correspondent, who was on board another ship in the fleet, 'but the _Inflexible's_ firing to-day was certainly second to none.' Describing how the _Inflexible_ shifted her position, and at ranges between 3000 and 5000 yards shelled the Mex Fort with one turret, and the Ras-el-Tin batteries with the other, the correspondent continues: 'Every shell seemed either to burst right over the Ras-el-Tin works, or to pitch upon the very parapet of the Mex Fort upon the hill.' It was just after this that Admiral Seymour signalled, 'Well done, _Inflexible_!' The _Inflexible_ bore the brunt of the firing from the Ras-el-Tin batteries for three and a half hours, until she had silenced the Egyptian guns. After that, with the aid of the _Temeraire_, she silenced the Lighthouse Fort and Fort Adda, the front of which strongly fortified work her fire is said to have literally blown in.

It was on board the _Inflexible_ also that the late Commander Younghusband performed an exploit of great daring--though only characteristic of the man, and of the spirit that has ever existed in the service to which he belonged. In the midst of the fighting the vent of one of the _Inflexible's_ 80-ton guns had become choked; with the result that for the time being the gun was completely out of action. Lieutenant Younghusband (as the gallant officer then was) calmly got inside the gun--a muzzle-loader--and caused himself to be rammed by the hydraulic rammer right up the bore of the gun (a tube 16 inches in diameter) until he reached the powder-chamber, when he managed with his fingers to remedy the defect, all the time at imminent risk of suffocation from the powder gases. When he had done his work, a rope fastened to his feet hauled him back and drew him out of the gun.

The _Inflexible_ at Alexandria had numerous dents made in her armour, and the unarmoured part of the hull was pierced by shot in several places. Her most serious injury was from a 10-inch shell, which struck the ship below the water-line outside the central armoured 'citadel,' and, glancing up, passed through her decks, killing one of the men, and mortally wounding Lieutenant Francis Jackson as he was directing the fire of one of the light guns on the superstructure.

Her due, too, must be given to the 'Old _Alex_,' as the Navy used to call the favourite flagship of the Fleet during the closing years of Queen Victoria's reign. On board the _Alexandra_ (Captain C.F. Hotham) Mr. Israel Harding, the chief gunner of the ship, won the V.C. Just at ten o'clock, about three hours after the action began, a 10-inch spherical shell crashed through the _Alexandra's_ side, at a part where the ship was unarmoured, and with its fuse burning rolled along the main-deck. With great gallantry and presence of mind, Mr. Harding, who from below had heard the shout, 'There's a live shell just above the hatchway!' rushed up the ladder, and taking some water from a tub near by, dashed it upon the burning fuse, after which he seized the shell and plunged it bodily into the tub, rendering it harmless. For this act of valour, which undoubtedly saved many lives, Mr. Harding was deservedly awarded the Victoria Cross. The shell was presented to His Majesty King Edward, then Prince of Wales. It was in the circumstances by no means an inappropriate presentation. The _Alexandra_ was so named in honour of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, then Princess of Wales, who launched the ship on an April day of the year 1875 that Chatham is not likely to forget. On the stocks, until a few days before she was sent afloat, the ship had been known as the _Superb_, and her re-naming as the _Alexandra_ was meant as a special compliment to her royal sponsor, which met with universal applause. It drew forth, among other poetical tributes elsewhere, the following Latin verses in the _Times_:--

THE LAUNCH OF THE ALEXANDRA

Fulcra securifera fabri succidite dextra; Omen habet primas si bene tangit aquas. Dicite--Sit Felix--proraeque invergite vina; Nomen _Alexandrae_ dulce _Superba_ tulit. Nomine mutato, sit et omine fausta secundo; Sit sine rivali, nec tamen ipsa ferox. Jam neque tormentis opus est, nec triplice lamna, Forma tumescentes sola serenat aquas. Te capiente capi qui non velit ipse phaselus, 'Ferreus, et vere ferreus iste fuit.'

H.K.

To add to the _eclat_ of the _Alexandra's_ launch, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Tait), with the Bishop of Rochester, conducted the religious service on the occasion--the first time that a religious service of any kind had been used at the launch of a British man-of-war since the Reformation. To Queen Alexandra we owe the restoration of the ancient usage of invoking, at the outset of their existence, the protection of Almighty God on the ships by which our homes and our Empire are guarded, and also on those who are to man them; and the practice, so instituted, has continued to be observed at the launches of all British men-of-war, ever since the launch of the _Alexandra_.

The _Alexandra_ came out of action after the bombardment of Alexandria with twenty-four hits from shot or shell on the hull outside the armour-plating, and with several dents in her armour, one of her funnels damaged, and her rigging a good deal cut about. Most of the enemy's shots, fortunately, had been aimed too high.[123]

The _Invincible_ (Captain R.H. More-Molyneux), on board which ship Sir Beauchamp Seymour had his flag for the day,--the _Alexandra_ was really his flagship, but he had removed into the _Invincible_ a short time before because of her lighter draught in order to enter the harbour,--had also numerous dents in her armour near the water-line, and the unarmoured parts of her hull had holes through it in several places. Her part in the fighting was for most of the time at anchor off Fort Mex, and the precision of her firing was enthusiastically applauded by the officers of the American ships who watched it from the offing. It was from the _Invincible_ that the landing-party of four officers and twelve men--all volunteers--went off, towards the close of the action, to disable the guns of Fort Mex. The duty was an extremely dangerous one. There was no means of knowing what troops the enemy might not have under cover close behind the fort. To effect their landing the little party--the officers were Lieutenants Barton Bradford and Poore, Flag-Lieutenant Lambton, and Major Tulloch of the Welsh Regiment (Military Staff Officer to the Admiral)--had to swim through the surf. No opposition, however, met them, and after bursting the guns with charges of gun-cotton the party returned on board without a casualty.

Less is on record about what took place on board the other ships. All did their duty, and it was not their fault that no chances of special distinction came their way. The _Superb_[124] (Captain T. Le H. Warde) was hit badly near the water-line, just above the armour-belt, by a shell that shattered a hole in the hull 10 feet long by 4 feet wide. One shot made a hole, 10 inches across, in the fore part of the ship near one of her torpedo-ports, and another a hole, a foot across, a little aft of her battery; besides which her armour was dented and her foremast shot through. The _Sultan_ (Captain W.J. Hunt-Grubbe, C.B., A.D.C.) had an armour-plate on the water-line dented and 'started,' four boats damaged, and one funnel shot through. The _Penelope_ (Captain St. G.C. d'Arcy-Irvine) was hulled eight times, and one of her guns had its muzzle chipped. The _Temeraire_ and _Monarch_ (Captains H.F. Nicholson and H. Fairfax, C.B., A.D.C.)--though the value of the work they did and the way they were handled were second to none--came out of action with little or no damage to report.

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Here we break off finally and close the book. Alike in our stories of the far-off past and the last story of the nearer past, the men whose names have been mentioned, round whom the incidents related centred, are, after all, only typical of their fellows in the Sea Service at the present hour. As occasion will prove too, when the time next comes for Great Britain to stand to her arms once more in defence on the sea of her rights and the honour of the flag against a European foe, the enemy, whosoever he may be, will find the spirit of the Cornwallis's and Rodneys and Faulknors and the Gardiners of the older day--to name no other, no more recent names--burning as brightly as of yore in the breasts of those who in that hour will officer and man the war-ships of the British Fleet.

No wonder England holds Dominion o'er the seas-- Still the Red Cross shall face the world, While she has men like these!

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 121: _Pictures of Many Wars_, pp. 177, etc.]

[Footnote 122: This is very much the way that the late Admiral Sir W.R. Mends, G.C.B., (then a captain) handled the _Arethusa_ frigate (now a training-ship in the Thames) under sail at the bombardment of Odessa on the 22nd of April 1854, to the enthusiastic admiration of the whole fleet.]

[Footnote 123: The first officer to hoist his flag in the _Alexandra_ was the late Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Phipps Hornby, G.C.B. She was afterwards the flagship, also in the Mediterranean, of the late Duke of Edinburgh. Sir Geoffrey Hornby hoisted his flag on board on Monday, the 15th of January 1877, and the _Alexandra_ was his flagship when in the following year, at the most critical moment for Europe of the Russo-Turkish War, Sir Geoffrey, with a division of the Mediterranean Fleet, made the passage of the Dardanelles. Speaking of the close association between the _Alexandra_ and the royal lady who so auspiciously sent the splendid battleship afloat, Sir Geoffrey Hornby's biographer, his daughter, Mrs. Fred. Egerton, says: 'H.R.H. was recognised, so to speak, as the patron saint of the ship. Her birthday, December 1, became the fete day of the ship; a Danish cross, with a garland of oak leaves between the arms of the cross, was adopted as the crest, and a photograph of the Princess, presented by her to the officers, received the place of honour in the wardroom.']

[Footnote 124: One of Lord Beaconsfield's 'purchased squadron,' an ironclad built in England for Turkey, and bought, with the _Belleisle_, _Orion_, and _Neptune_, at the time of the 'scare' of 1878, during the Russo-Turkish War, when the crossing of the Balkans by the Russian armies threatened Constantinople and strained the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia almost to breaking-point.]

INDEX

'Achille,' The, 272

Admiral of the Red, 281

Affleck, Commodore, 130

'Africa, The,' 277

'Agamemnon, The,' 79, 81

Aix, 223

'Ajax, The' (see under Ships)

Alava, Vice-Admiral, 245, 268 (note 1)

Alcester, Lord (see Seymour, Admiral)

'Alcide, The' (see under Ships)

'Alert, The,' 57

Alexandra, Queen, 307-308 (and note)

'Alexandra, The' (see under Ships)

Alexandria, bombardment of, 287-311

'Alfred, The,' 86-87

Alms, Capt. James, 13, 41

'America, The,' 94, 108

'Andromache, The' (see under Ships)

Anson, Admiral Lord George, 12

'Anson, The,' 107

Antigua, West Indies, 54, 56

Antilles, the, 101

April 12, day of Rodney's victory, 171 (note 1)

Arabi Pasha, 287, 288

'Ardent,' The, 141-142, 144

'Arethusa, The' (see under Ships)

'Arrogant, The,' 105

'Asia, The,' 177-181

'Astree,' The, 97, 98

Atcherley, Capt., 265-267

Augereau, Marshal, 221

'Auguste,' The, 67

Austin, Capt., 39

Bacon, John, statue of Rodney, 162

Badcock, Midshipman (Vice-Admiral W.S. Lovell), 247-248 (and note)

Balchen, Admiral, 183

Balfour, Capt. John, 106

Bantry Bay, 219

Barbados, 54, 56

'Barfleur, The' (see under Ships)

Baron, Lieut., 27, 38

Basque Roads, 223, 224

Basse Terre, Guadeloupe, 97

Battle formation adopted by Nelson, 236

Baudoin, Capt., 256-259

Bay of Biscay, 222, 228

Bayne, Capt., 111

Bazin, Capt., 259

'Beacon, The,' 302

Beatson, Mr., shipbreaker, 214, 283

Beaulieu, Marquis de, 69

Beaumanoir, de, 140

'Bedford, The' (see under Ships)

Bell, Moberly, 300

'Belle Poule,' The, 67

Belleisle, 205, 210

'Belleisle, The' (see under Ships)

'Bellerophon, The' (see under Ships)

'Belliqueux, The' (see under Ships)

'Bellona, The,' 182, 183

Benbow, Admiral, 174

'Benbow, The,' 45

Beresford, Lord Charles, 198, 287, 289, 290, 294-304

Beresina, Bridge of the, 195

Bertheaume Bay, 227

'Berwick, The' (see under Ships)

Betisy, Vicomte de, 68

'Bien Venu,' The (see 'Undaunted' under Ships)

'Billy Blue,' 205-212

Bismarck, Prince, 60

Blackwall Reach, 214

Blackwood, Capt., 231, 240-241, 243, 274

Blair, Capt. Wm., 107, 111

Blake, Admiral, 200

'Blanche, The,' 197

Blane, Dr., 76, 100, 101, 119, 120, 121, 126, 128, 129, 137, 138, 149, 155, 159, 160, 168

Boghaz Pass, Alexandria, 301

Boscawen, Admiral, 202, 217 (note 2)

Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, 66, 102, 132, 139, 141, 144, 154

Bouille, Marquis de, 73, 98, 158

Boulogne, 212, 220, 227

Bourayne, ----, 68

'Bourgogne,' The, 67, 143, 149

Bowen, Lieut., 176

'Boyne, The' (see under Ships)

Bradford, Lieut. Barton, 309

Brest, 55, 205, 220, 221, 223, 224-225, 226, 227, 228

Bridge of the Beresina, 195

Bridport, Lord, 209, 210 (and note)

'Britannia, The,' 247

British Mediterranean Fleet, 288

Broke, Capt., 170

Brown, Capt. John, 177-180

Bruce, Midshipman, 231

'Brunswick, The,' 206

'Bucentaure,' The (see under Ships--French)

Buckner, Capt., 110

Burnett, Capt., 137

Busch, Moritz, 60

Busigny, Capt., 275

Byng, Admiral, 12, 19 (and note), 21, 202

Byng, Sir George, 12

Byron, Capt. Geo. Anson, 79, 80, 166

Byron, John, 79

Cadiz, 227, 228, 229, 230, 234, 235, 263, 269, 273, 275, 277, 281

Cairo, 288

Calder, Vice-Admiral, 222, 224, 228, 229, 230

Caldicot Castle, 42

Cameron, Mr., correspondent of the 'Standard,' 293-296

Campbell, Lieut., 23, 31, 39

Campbell, Rear-Admiral, 220

Camperdown, battle of, 13, 41, 170

'Canada, The' (see under Ships)

Cape de Gata, 15, 34

Cape Finisterre, 221, 228, 229, 269 (note 1)

Cape Haitien, San Domingo, 55, 165

Cape Palos, 16

Cape Passano, 12

Cape St. Mary, 230

Cape St. Vincent, 107

Cape Solomon, 82

Carkett, Lieut., 22, 24, 27-31, 38

Carronades or 'smashers,' 75

Carthagena, 14-17, 33

Caskets, the, 183

Casse, du, 174

Castellan, de, 67

Castlereagh, Lord, 218

Castries, 74

Cawsand Bay, 220, 223

'Centaur, The' (see under Ships)

'Cesar,' The (see under Ships--French)

Ceuta, 15

Champmartin, de, 68

Charette, de la, 67, 143

Charles I., 199-200

Charles II., 11

Charrington, Capt. Nicholas, 128

Chatham, 11, 307

Cherbourg Bay, 201

Chesapeake Campaign, 63

'Chesapeake, The,' 169

Choissat, Sergeant, 120

Cibber, Colley, 37

Cibon, Comte de, 69

Cisneros, Rear-Admiral Don B. Hidalgo, 268 (note 2)

Clarke, Capt., 12

Clearing for action, 232

Clochetterie, Sieur de la, 67, 102

Clue, Admiral de la, 15-16, 33, 217 (note 2)

Cobb, G. Wheatley, 42

Cochet, P., 40

Collingwood, Admiral, 202, 212, 224, 228, 229-230, 239, 245, 247, 255, 268 (note 1), 274-275, 278

'Collingwood, The,' 10

'Colossus, The,' 263

Colours captured, fate of, 196, 278

Combined Fleet, the, 234

'Condor, The' (see under Ships)

'Conqueror, The' (see under Ships)

Contamine, General de, 266, 267

Cornwallis, Hon. Wm. ('Billy Blue'), 77, 128, 144-145, 199, 203, 205-212, 220, 221, 225, 226

'Cornwallis's Retreat,' 203-211

'Cornwallis, The,' 212

Corvette Pass, Alexandria, 304

Cotton, Capt., 210

Couch, Lieut., 265

'Courageux,' The, 183

'Couronne,' The, 119, 144-145

Cranstoun, Capt. Lord, 77, 100, 150-151, 166, 210

Crillon, de, 58

'Culloden, The,' 16

Cumby, W. Price, 239

'Cygnet, The,' 302

D'Aigalliers, Brueys, 68

Dardanelles, the, 308

Dashwood, Sir Charles, 122-126, 170

'Dauphin Royal,' The, 104

Dead Man's Bay, Plymouth Sound, 303

'Decoy, The,' 302

Decres, Bruix, 68

Decres, Admiral Denis, 68, 135-136

'Defiance, The,' 274, 277

Demerara, 54

D'Escars, Baron, 67, 137

Diablotin, the, 101

'Diademe,' The, 122, 126, 127

Diamond Rock, 82

'Didon,' The, 229 (note 1)

Dominica (see under West Indies)

Douarnenez Bay, 225

Douglas, Sir Charles, 75, 77, 82, 93, 99, 100, 105, 106, 112, 122-125, 149, 150, 160

Douglas, Sir Howard, 124

Drake, Rear-Admiral Francis Samuel, 76, 85, 88, 89, 101, 106, 108

Drouet, Postmaster, 73

'Duguay Trouin,' The ('Implacable'), 269 (note 1)

'Duke, The' (see under Ships)

Dumanoir, Rear-Admiral, 268-269 (note 1), 270, 273

Dumaresq, Capt., 128

Duncan, Admiral, 170, 236 (note 1)

Dupotet, Lieut., 252

Eaton, Signal Midshipman, 243

Edinburgh, Duke of, 308 (note)

Edward, King, 198, 307

Egerton, Mrs. Fred, 309 (note)

Egyptian Government, diplomacy of Arabi Pasha and result of, 287-289

Eliott, Gen., 58

Ellis, Gen., 238 (note 1)

Emeriau, ----, 68

'England expects that every man will do his duty,' 243

'Euryalus, The' (see under Ships)

'Eveille,' The, 119

'Evelyn's Diary,' quoted, 200

Fairfax, Capt. H., 310-311

'Fame, The,' 107

Fanshawe, Capt., 41, 116, 128

Faulknor family, 182-183

Faulknor, Commander Robert, 177-197

Ferrol, 228, 229 (note 1)

'Fighting Temeraire' (see 'Temeraire' under Ships)

Fisher, Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot, 304

Fitzgerald, Capt., 210

Fontenoy, 58

'Formidable, The' (see under Ships)

Fort Adda, Alexandria, 305

Fort Bourbon, Martinique, 174-197

Fort Louis, Martinique, 175-189, 193, 194

Fort Marabout, Alexandria, 296-303

Fort Mex, Alexandria, 294, 296, 298, 304, 305, 309

Fort Rodney, 80

Fort Royal, Martinique (see under West Indies)

'Foudroyant,' The, 12, 14-42

'Fougueux,' The (see under Ships--French)

'Four Days' Fight,' 200

France, part taken _re_ Egypt, 288, 289; French Army, 73; Napoleon's Grand Army, 195, 220, 222, 227; Regiment de Touraine, 188; Regiment de Marechal Turenne, 195; French Fleet, 71-72; French officers of the Fleet, 65-70

Froude, J.A., quoted, 52

Galvez, Don Bernardo, 56

Gardeur de Tilly, Le, 68, 119

Gardiner, Capt. Arthur, 19-41

Gardner, Capt. Alan, 111-112, 127

'Gentleman's Magazine,' 40

Gibraltar, 12, 14, 16, 33, 35, 36, 58, 159, 228, 229, 231, 277

Glandeves, de, 136

'Glorieux,' The (see under Ships--French)

'Glorious First of June,' 202, 207

Gower, Capt., 210

Grand Army, Napoleon's, 195, 220, 222, 227

'Graphic, The,' Mr. Villiers correspondent of, 289-290

Grasse, Admiral de, 53-72, 79, 81-152 157, 160-161, 163-164, 166, 169, 174

Grasse, Vicomte de, 68

Gravina, Admiral, 268, 273

'Great Harry, The,' 199

Greenwich, 214-215

Grey, Capt. George, 178, 179

Gribeauval guns, 72

Grimaldi, ----, 68

Gros Islet Bay (see under West Indies)

Grubbe, Capt. W.J. Hunt, 310

Guadeloupe, 84, 85, 90, 95, 97

Hammick, Stephen, 38

'Hampton Court, The' (see under Ships)

Hand, Commander G.W., 302

Harding, Israel, 306-307

Hardy, Capt., 241, 274

Harvey, Capt. Eliab, 218; Trafalgar Day, 241-242, 248, 250-263, 269, 274, 275, 277; promotion of, 281; death of, 282

Hawke, Admiral Lord, 12, 50-51

'Hector,' The (see under Ships--French)

'Helicon, The,' 292

Hempstead Church, 218

'Hercule,' The, 67

'Hercules, The,' 108-110

'Heros,' The, 279

Hill, Lieut., 90