[130]. One of the Dutch ships taken at the Cape of Good Hope in August 1796.
[131]. Joseph Peyton; admiral, June 1, 1795.
[132]. Taken possession of in Cork Harbour, Aug. 22, 1795.
[133]. James Hardy, of the Dictator.
[134]. A similar method of beautifying a ship fitting out was the rule rather than the exception till long after Gardner’s time.
[135]. In 1852 the crew of a whaler in Baffin’s Bay mutinied and struck work, till a pan of burning sulphur ‘cleared lower deck.’
[136]. Taken at Camperdown.
[137]. Taken at the Cape.
[138]. September 28.
[139]. October 9. Cf. D.N.B.