Official Wedding Pictures part 2

images by Chris Stowell

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Official Wedding Pictures

Images taken by Lauren Stowell

The wedding photography contained in this post is placed here for your viewing only. They may not be copied or reproduced, in whole or in part for private or public use without expressly given consent from the happy couple.

Nelson at Toulon & Corsica

Prize-Money

Source:

'The Navy List corrected to the end of Dec. 1814'
Published by John Murray, bookseller to the Admiralty & Board of Longitude, No. 50 Albemarle Street. Page 141

A Book Review

A short review by Tony Gerard- 

"Jack Tar- The extraordinary lives of ordinary seamen in Nelson's navy" by Roy and Lesley Adkins

If you are doing a Royal Navy impression and you only ever intend to read one book on the topic this should be the one! I can't say enough good about this book. We're I an officer I'd make it required reading for all Acastas.

It covers  pretty much all aspects of life for a British Tar at the time of Nelson with the focus on the common sailor. Daily life aboard ship, food and food preparation, press gang, relationships (man to woman, man to man, man to other), combat, capture, medical treatment, life ashore and more. It's all in there. Well documented with plenty of actual quotes and passages from the period. And it's written in a nonacademic style that's easy to read! Not many pictures, but the content more than makes up for that.

Five stars and two thumbs up!

-Tony Gerard

CAPTURES

In going through and doing to back-tracking to look up ship's captured by the Acasta during the war, I realized that perhaps it would be easier to find the captures if I were to LABEL them. 

Be sure to check out the posts that fall under the newly created label, "CAPTURE".

Acasta in the News

PORTSMOUTH, June 20. Vice-Adm. Martin sailed on Monday, in the Acasta frigate, Capt. Kerr, for Lisbon. The Acasta has on board a large quantity of specie, for payment to the troops in the Peninsula; on the delivery of which the Acasta will proceed to South America.

The Loire frigate, Capt. Schomberg sailed, on Monday on a secret service; and the Antelope, of 50 guns, Capt. White, sailed on Monday for Torbay, to receive Sir J.T. Duckworth's flag, for Newfoundland.

The Martin, of 18 guns, Capt. Evans, is appointed convoy for Bermuda.

The Laurestinus frigate, arrived from the River Plate, has brought about 400,000 dollars.

Arrived, the Vangeur, of 74 guns, and Asia, of 74 guns, from off Cherbourg; the Dreadnought, of 98 guns, from Plymouth, to be docked; Castor, of 36 guns, from Jamaica; and Laurestinus, of 24 guns, from the Rio Plate.

Exerpt from 'The Salisbury And Winchester Journal and General Advertiser of Wilts, Hants, Dorset, and Somerset.' Monday, June 22nd, 1812 issue.