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    Billy Ruffian

    By David Cordingly

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    This is the story of the Bellerophon, a ship of the line known to her crew as the Billy Ruffian. Under fourteen captains, she played a conspicuous part in three of the most famous of all sea battles: the battle of the Glorious First of June (1794), the opening action against Revolutionary France; the battle of the Nile (1798), which halted Napoleon's eastern expansion from Cairo; and the battle of Trafalgar (1805), which established British naval supremacy for 100 years and during which her captain was shot dead with a musket ball an hour before Nelson was mortally wounded. But her crowning glory came six weeks after the Battle of Waterloo, when the Napoleon, trapped in La Rochelle, surrendered to the captain of the ship that had dogged his steps for more than twenty years.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781408846742
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    David Cordingly

    David Cordingly was Keeper of Pictures and Head of Exhibitions at the National Maritime Museum for twelve years, where he organised such exhibitions as Captain James Cook, Navigator, The Mutiny on the Bounty and Pirates: Fact and Fiction. His other books include Life among the Pirates, Heroines and Harlots and the highly praised Billy Ruffian.

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      This biography of a Royal Navy fighting ship at the height of the age of sail is an engaging snapshot of the period seen through the "eyes" of the Bellerophon and her crew. While one might imagine the description of the builing, outfitting, operations and eventual end of an 18th-Century Ship of the Line would be dry and technical, Cordingly does a fine job of both informing and entertaining.The stories of the Bellerophon's battles and "adventures" have the right blend of fact and action. In particular, I found the account of Trafalgar very interesting compared to other histories, concentrated as it was on the experiences of one particular ship. That to me personalized the battle better than any other Trafalgar history I have read.