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

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

Virtual Tour of HMS Victory

Historical Maritime Society

The Nelson Society

How Ships Were Rated

Songs of the sea

Roll call of men who fought at Trafalgar

A Chronology of Naval Actions 1793 to 1815

Sailing Jargon

Man of War, age of sail wargaming

Glossary of Nautical terms, circa 1814

The National Maritime Museum Aaron Thomas Journal
Other Links and Web Rings



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These pages last updated 16th October 2000.

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