Whilst reading all the horror stories coming from Haiti, it is worth remembering that Haiti is opposite Jamaica where there was a devastating earthquake at Port Royal in 1692, which raised many of the same problems. Perhaps 5000 of a population of 6,500 died, but only 1/5th of those died in the actual earthquake. The [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2010
A Visit to the Temeraire in 1806
January 18, 2010 – 5:42 am
Mr Giles Laurent has kindly got in touch with a great piece concerning the Temeraire in 1806 as she lay at Portsmouth. An ancestor of his visited the ship in 1806, aged seventeen, and wrote about her experience in her diary. ‘It was a melancholy thing to see the ravages made by the Enemy (her mother [...]
Richard Powell of the Temeraire
January 11, 2010 – 3:06 am
Mr Colin Powell has kindly got in touch with some information about Richard Powell, who fought on the Temeraire at Trafalgar. Richard Powell was born in Harwich on 13 August 1787 and was eighteen years old at the time of Trafalgar. Both his parents died when he was six years old and he was cared [...]
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