The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1Harrison, James
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The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1
Harrison, James
Admirals -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Biography; Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805
_List of Killed, Wounded, Drowned, and Missing, of his Majesty's
Ships undermentioned, in storming Santa Cruz, in the Island of
Teneriffe, in the Night of the 24th of July 1797._
Theseus, eight seamen, four marines, killed; twenty-five seamen
wounded; and thirty-four drowned.
Culloden, one seaman, two marines, killed; twelve seamen, six
marines wounded; and thirty-six drowned.
Zealous, three seamen, two marines, killed; and nineteen seamen,
two marines, wounded.
Leander, one seaman, five marines, killed; one seaman, four
marines, wounded; and one missing.
Seahorse, two seamen killed; and thirteen seamen, one marine,
wounded.
Terpsichore, eight seamen killed; nine seamen, two marines,
wounded; and four missing.
Emerald, five seamen, three marines, killed; eleven seamen wounded;
and ten drowned.
Fox cutter, seventeen drowned.
Total killed, wounded, and missing, two hundred and fifty-one.
OFFICERS KILLED.
Richard Bowen, Captain of the Terpsichore.
George Thorpe, First-Lieutenant of ditto.
John Wetherhead, Lieutenant of the Theseus.
William Earnshaw, Second Lieutenant of the Leander.
Raby Robinson, Lieutenant of Marines, ditto.
Lieutenant Baisham, Marines, of the Emerald.
Lieutenant Gibson, of the Fox Cutter, drowned.
OFFICERS WOUNDED.
Rear-Admiral Nelson, right arm shot off.
Captain Thompson, Leander, slightly.
Captain Freemantle, Seahorse, in the arm.
Lieutenant J. Douglas, ditto, in the hand.
Mr. Waits, Midshipman, Zealous.
In a small Spanish pamphlet, published at Madrid, with a translation of
which the author has been most obligingly furnished by Sir John Talbot
Dillon, though the account of our loss is so prodigiously exaggerated,
as to state the killed to be twenty-two British officers and at least
five hundred and sixty-six men, and adding that some accounts even make
it eight hundred, there are certainly several interesting particulars
which bear every mark of authenticity. The acknowledged loss of the
Spaniards, however, said to be only twenty-three killed, and
thirty-eight wounded, may be considered as not a little apocryphal.
Indeed, no reliance can be placed on their numerical exactness; for the
Fox cutter is asserted, by them, to have contained three hundred and
eighty men, instead of one hundred and eighty; and Rear-Admiral Nelson
is said to have lost his right arm, when in his boat, and before
landing, which obliged him to re-embark on board the Theseus, with the
other officers who accompanied him badly wounded, on the 23d, instead of
on the 24th.
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