Welcome to Broadside

Broadside is a collection of pages describing life in Royal Navy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the time of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Life in the Navy Great Guns and Small Arms 
Pay and Prize Money  The Impress Service  
Ships and Tactics  Crime and Punishment 
Frigate Warfare Patronage and Promotion
Battle of Trafalgar  Battle of the Nile
An eyewitness at Trafalgar  Victories and Casualties

Follow these links to other 18th Century Navy sites.
Letters and Dispatches of Horatio Nelson

Historical Maritime Society

Songs of the sea
Roll call of men who fought at Trafalgar

Glossary of Nautical terms, circa 1814

The National Maritime Museum Aaron Thomas Journal


Beesker.com Rated Broadside best Battle of Trafalgar website


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These pages last updated 3rd May 2011.

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