Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . y a little less destructive to him than hadbeen the Royal Sovereign s broadside to the SantaAna. Twenty of the Bucentaures guns were dis-mounted by it, and her officers afterward said thatthe loss in killed and wounded reached nearly tofour hundred men. The French ship Neptune, that had been valiantlysupporting the Bucentaure, fearing to be run aboardof by the Victory, hoisted her jib and shifted herhelm to forge ahead. Captain Hardy, who had de-cided to run aboard the ship that was to starboard,ported his helm and drove towards the Redoutabl
Horatio Nelson and the naval supremacy of England . y a little less destructive to him than hadbeen the Royal Sovereign s broadside to the SantaAna. Twenty of the Bucentaures guns were dis-mounted by it, and her officers afterward said thatthe loss in killed and wounded reached nearly tofour hundred men. The French ship Neptune, that had been valiantlysupporting the Bucentaure, fearing to be run aboardof by the Victory, hoisted her jib and shifted herhelm to forge ahead. Captain Hardy, who had de-cided to run aboard the ship that was to starboard,ported his helm and drove towards the Redoutable,whose men, having discharged a broadside, promptlyclosed their lower-deck ports and fired from them nomore. Beatty and, after him, Southey say that, be-cause there was danger that the Redoutable mighttake fire from the Victorys guns, whose muzzles,when the pieces were run out, touched her sides, thefireman of each gun stood ready with a bucket ofwater to slap into the hole after the shot had beenfired. James, however, convincingly disproves this. 1805] Receives his Death-Wound. 291 by exhibiting the situation of the combatants; nor,indeed, even if it were a practicable, is it at all a very-credible, manoeuvre. When the Victory had been fitted to receive Nel-sons flag, a large skylight over the Admirals cabinwas removed, and planks let into the space so asto enable him to walk amidships clear of the gunsand gear. The length of this walk was about twenty-one feet, the stanchion of the wheel ending it aft,and the coverings of the hatch which led to thecabin bounding it forward. Nelson was pacing this promenade with CaptainHardy somewhere about half-past one oclock, andhaving arrived at the cabin hatch, suddenly facedleft about. Hardy, who had taken the further andfinal step, rounded to re-measure this pendulumwalk. As he did so he observed Nelson in the actof falling. Before he could spring forward, theHero had dropped with his face on the deck. Thespot was exactly where his sec
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