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








Other sites of interest

Virtual Tour of HMS Victory

Aaron Thomas Journal

Historical Maritime Society

The Nelson Society

Interactive Battle of The Nile

Songs of the sea

Roll call of men who fought at Trafalgar

Seabritain 2005

The definitive HMS Victory website

Sailing Jargon

Art Marine Prints

Glossary of Nautical terms, circa 1814

The National Maritime Museum

Trafalgar 200

Trafalgar Woods, The Woodlands Trust

Trafalgar Ancestors

NMM Open Museum lectures and courses

Ocean Waves, RN Heritage website

Revenue Cutters and Smuggling Luggers



These pages last updated 18th October 2005.

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