Dear List, I'd be delighted if you could help me  please,     I am looking for information on a Lieut. Walsh who, I have been told, served on Nelson's ship HMS Victory at Trafalgar. He is a distant relative  and he died in 1825. That is a s much as I know at the moment.    Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán

Do you have his first name? -----Original Message----- From: mariners-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:mariners-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Seán Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 9:15 AM To: mariners@rootsweb.com Subject: [MAR] Nelson's Ship at Trafalgar Dear List, I'd be delighted if you could help me  please,     I am looking for information on a Lieut. Walsh who, I have been told, served on Nelson's ship HMS Victory at Trafalgar. He is a distant relative  and he died in 1825. That is a s much as I know at the moment.    Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hello Sean Lt. Walsh does not seem to appear on the HMS Victory Muster Roll (see attached link) http://www.hms-victory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=87.  There were two landsmen aboard during the battle named "Welsh", but they would seem unrelated. This would not preclude Lieutenant Walsh being at Trafalgar, so he could have been aboard one of the other ships at the battle.  There were 24 other ships of the line, four frigates, and a few smaller vessels to choose from.  According to the National Archives website, 18 men named Walsh have been listed as serving during the battle, see:  http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors/results.asp?page=1.  Sadly none of them are listed as being a Lieutenant. Regards, PK ________________________________ From: Seán <sean_tee@eircom.net> To: mariners@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 9 November 2011, 17:14 Subject: [MAR] Nelson's Ship at Trafalgar Dear List, I'd be delighted if you could help me  please,     I am looking for information on a Lieut. Walsh who, I have been told, served on Nelson's ship HMS Victory at Trafalgar. He is a distant relative  and he died in 1825. That is a s much as I know at the moment.    Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán Thank you and a ll the b est, Seán ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Seán I see that Steel's List of the Royal Navy for May 1805 had 2 Lieutenants by the name of Walsh : Walsh, Arch., whose seniority as a Lieutenant was 1796 and Walsh, John, whose seniority as a Lieutenant was 1783 Neither of these officers are noted as serving at sea when the List was published. I don't know which officer the following notes from the Naval Chronicle refer to or whether there may have been another officer with this name around at the time : Note 1 : from Vol 2 of the Naval chronicle 20 Nov 1799, Portsmouth, arrived the Pelter, Lt. Walsh, from the Texel, having been ashore on the Dutch coast, and was sent into harbour for a refit, having lost her anchor, cables and false keel. She arrived with survivors from the Dutch frigate Valk/Voolk, wrecked on the Island of Ameland. Note 2 : I've not read it properly, but in Vol 7 of the Naval chronicle in Google Books there appears to be a Lieutenant Walsh who was called as a witness at a Court Martial circa 1801-02, on men from HMS Temeraire : ISTR reading some years ago this Court Martial was of some importance, but forget the nature of it, although it would appear that most of the men involved were sentenced to die. But, the important thing here is that the Temeraire went on to serve alongside the Victory at Trafalgar, but I don't know if Lt. Walsh was still on board on 21 Oct 1805 when the Battle of Trafalgar took place. So what we can say is that an officer with the name of Lieutenant Walsh probably served on board a ship that would, in due course, be at Trafalgar, but whether he was still on board at the time is another question altogether. This is often how stories grow legs and get embroidered ..... :-) FWIW Paul On Wed, 9 Nov 2011 17:14:53 +0000 (GMT), Seán <sean_tee@eircom.net> wrote: > > >Dear List, > > > >I'd be delighted if you could help me  please,     I am looking for information on a Lieut. Walsh who, I have been told, served on Nelson's ship HMS Victory at Trafalgar. He is a distant relative  and he died in 1825. That is a s much as I know at the moment.    > > >Thank you and a ll the b est, > >Seán > > > > >Thank you and a ll the b est, > >Seán > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html