Hore, Pete The Trafalgar Chronicle. Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era. New Series 5

The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as "Nelsons Navy", though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. The central theme of the 2020 issue is "portrayals of the Georgian Navy though art, literature, and film". The feature article, by Gerald Stulc, MD, analyses film depictions and portraits of Horatio Nelson, throughout his service and after his death, comparing these images to the clinical realities of Nelsons injuries in battle. Additional theme-related contributions include the story behind the most famous paintings of Nelsons death; how Tobias Smollet wrote a novel revealing the unhygienic and inhumane medical care aboard Royal Navy ships of the day; the rise of the fouled anchor motif; modern-day naval historical fiction portrayals of women in the era of Nelson; and whimsical drawings of Nelson in caricature and cartoon. In the tradition of recent editions of "The Trafalgar Chronicle", this issue contains biographical sketches of Royal Navy contemporaries of Nelson including Sir Andrew Pellet Green, Commander James Pearl, Captain John Houghton Marshall, and Captain Ralph Willet Miller, and Sir Home Popham. Each made a unique contribution to Britains victories at sea. Of more general interest to readers, the 2020 issue provides articles about the role of Spain in the American Revolution, new revelations about Cornwallis children that he fathered while stationed in the Caribbean, and how the American War for Independence influenced Royal Navy operations in the War of 1812.

Another article describes the story behind the famous painting of Admiral Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar. The unsanitary and inhumane conditions on board British warships in the 1800s are discussed in a review of a novel by Tobias Smollet. There are also biographical sketches of some of Nelson's contemporaries, including Sir Andrew Pellet Green, Commodore James Pearl, Captain John Houghton Marshall, Captain Ralph Willet Miller and Sir Home Popham.