No truer description of the man as a fact was ever penned than the words that Thackeray years afterwards used of Collingwood: “Another true knight of those days was Cuthbert Collingwood, and I think since heaven made gentlemen, there is not record of a better one than that.” * * * * * Collingwood’s officers at Trafalgar, those who served with him on board the _Royal Sovereign_, were these. According to the muster book the ship was two lieutenants short on the 21st of October. Captain—Edward Rotherham. Lieutenants—John Clavell, Joseph Simmons, James Bashford (wounded), Edward Barker, Brice Gilliland (killed), Francis Blower Gibbes. Master—William Chalmers (killed). Surgeon—Richard Lloyd. Purser—Brinsley S. Oliver. Chaplain—Rev. John Rudall. Secretary—W. R. Cosway. Gunner—Nicholas Brown. Boatswain—Isaac Wilkinson (wounded). Carpenter—George Clines. Marine officers:— Captain—Joseph Vallack. Lieutenants—Robert Green (killed), Armiger W. Hubbard, James Le Vescomte (wounded). Assistant Surgeons—Primrose Lyon, Henry Towsey. Master’s Mates and Midshipmen—Thomas Altoft, Charles A. Antram, Richard Davison Pritchard, William Sharp, William Watson (wounded), John Aikenhead (killed), John Doling Morey, Sam Weddle, Thomas P. Robinson, Charles Coucher, Joseph Del Carrotto, John Chaldecott, Henry Davis, William Budd Boreham, Gilbert Kennicott (wounded), Thomas Currell, Granville Thompson (wounded), George Castle, John Parr, Thomas Dickinson (wounded), John Campbell (wounded), Thomas Braund (mortally wounded), John Farrant (wounded), John Redwood, John Dobson, William Stock, James Rudall. First Class Volunteers—Meredith Milnekoff, Robert Julian, Archibald Nagle, Robert Duke Hamilton, John Hill, Claudius Charles, William Lloyd, Charles Lambert, Charles Chiswick. * * * * * From the officers we proceed in natural sequence to the men, and with regard to these, at the outset, there hangs a tale.