[120]. Rear-admiral Sir Hugh Cloberry Christian. See D.N.B.
[121]. So in MS., evidently a slip for ‘hawse.’
[122]. The tack hauled out only two thirds of the length of the jib-boom. Cf. D’Arcy Lever’s Young Sea Officer’s Sheet Anchor (1808), p. [84] and fig. 450. Setting the jib in this way seems to have gone out of use in the navy with the introduction of flying jibs.
[123]. Sc. had the swell on the bow.
[124]. This was evidently written with very imperfect knowledge of the facts in either case. From the naval point of view, the only good account of this expedition to Bantry Bay is that contributed by Admiral Colomb to the Journal of the R.U.S. Institution, xxxvi. 17 (Jan. 1892).
[125]. Possibly; but on joining the Hind, his name was entered John Timothy Coghlan in the pay-book.
[126]. Captain Fanshawe commanded the Monmouth in Byron’s action at Grenada, July 6, 1779, and the Namur on April 12, 1782. He was for many years resident commissioner at Plymouth. Cf. N.R.S. vols. xii., xix. and xxiv.
[127]. This power of committing for contempt belongs inherently to a court martial, as a court of record, though it is now seldom, if ever, called on to exercise it (Thring’s Criminal Law of the Navy, 2nd edit., p. [103]).
[128]. This has no meaning, unless we can suppose ‘Apollo’ to have been written inadvertently for ‘Favorite.’
[129]. On the part of the French this was a very old contention; sometimes, as here, with a view to obtaining better treatment as prisoners; at other times, with a view to being exchanged on more favourable terms. Cf. Laughton’s Studies in Naval History, pp. [258]–9.