[20] Trafalgar was also, as it happened, the _Victory’s_ fifth fight. Collingwood’s _Royal Sovereign_ had been eighteen years launched, and had been twice in battle. The _Sovereign_ also was actually the biggest ship in the British fleet that day, 2175 tons burthen, as compared with the 2162 tons of the _Victory_, and the 2091 tons of the _Britannia_. The _Téméraire_, again, was the hardest hitter in the whole fleet, owing to the exceptionally heavy ordnance that she carried on her upper deck. Of other ships, the _Agamemnon_, the third oldest ship present at Trafalgar, had fought her first two battles with Kempenfelt and Rodney—names that already had passed into history. Other ships of Nelson’s fleet, contemporaries mostly of the _Royal Sovereign_, had taken part in as many as four fleet battles. Four of them had been in Lord Howe’s fleet on the “Glorious First of June,” three at St. Vincent, five with Nelson at the Nile, three at Copenhagen. Three of the _Britannia’s_ consorts—the _Belleisle_, the _Tonnant_, and the _Spartiate_—were French-built ships, prizes won in battle. Two of them, indeed, had been captured by Nelson himself at the Nile. The average age of the ships of Nelson’s Trafalgar fleet was seventeen years, an age at which in the case of our modern-day battleships they are reckoned as off the active list and in sight of the sale list. Only six were less than five years old. One ship only was, so to speak, a new ship, the _Revenge_, in October, 1805, serving her first commission within seven months of leaving the stocks at Chatham Dockyard. [21] Of the names mentioned, Mr. Johnstone may possible have been John Johnson, an ex-midshipman, rated an A.B. in July, 1805. Mr. Jones may have been Mr. Charles S. Jones, the captain’s coxswain. There were sixteen Jones’s altogether on the _Britannia’s_ books, but none were among the officers, master’s mates, and midshipmen, or the first-class volunteers. There was no Lever on board the _Britannia_ in any capacity. INDEX “Able men,” 13 Adlercron, Colonel, 81, 83 Admiralty visit to Chatham 1764, 187 Ages of the _Victory’s_ crew at Trafalgar, 232 Ahmed Shah, 105 Aikenhead, J., midshipman, 271 Alarm at Chatham 1764, 188-90 Albemarle (Monk), Duke of, 28, 68-70 Anson, Lord, Admiral, 62, 161, 177, 178 Antigua, 193, 199, 203 Apodoca, Spanish Admiral, 63 Armada, Spanish, 22-7, 59 “Armed Associations,” 37 Arrest of Wolfe Tone, 214 Baker, Matthew, 2, 6, 16, 17, 28 Baker, “Old Honest Jem,” 11, 19 Balasore Roads, 81, 84, 85, 86, 105, 112 Banks of Flanders, Battles of, 28, 127 Barbados, 192, 193, 202 Barclay, J., Lieut., 275 Barfleur, Battle off Cape, 29, 67, 117, 127, 128, 143, 167, 171 Barham, Lord, Admiral, 62 Bart, Jean, 29 Bartholomew’s Day, Battle of, 58 “Bases,” 12 Basseterre Roads, 194, 195, 202, 204 Battle Honours of H.M.S. _Kent_, 67, 68 Baxster, Boatswain, 9, 16 Beatty, Dr., 34