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HMS Nancy (1808)

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At London Killwick was placed in the naval officers' ward at the mental hospital at Hoxton, a ward he shared with 15 other officers. By November 1813 he was deemed cured and received an appointment as First Lieutenant of
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broke out bunting and the British vessels saluted the revolution with salvos of cannon. Fabian also gave a rousing speech on liberty and revolution, praising the revolutionaries for having gained their freedom. On 28 May
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arrived at Rio de Janeiro on 26 August. The Royal Navy, always concerned about the possibility of mutiny, had a formal procedure for the removal of commanding officers for insanity. Admiral Dixon came on board
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s Assistant Surgeon all signed a Survey, a document attesting to their willingness to swear under oath that they had impartially assessed Killwick and found him unfit to command. Killwick then was taken to
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and that technically survivors and rescuers were at war with each other. Still, Barnard promised to rescue the British. While Barnard was onshore gathering supplies, the British seized
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on 23 September 1808; An Admiralty Order dated 7 January 1809 ratified the purchase. Smith appointed Lieutenant John Arthur Killwick (or Kilwick), a lieutenant from Smith's flagship,
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continued salvage efforts. On 16 November a gale came up and late the next day boats sent to the wreck reported that she was strewn in pieces all over the beach. On 28 November
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On 9 August D'Aranda sailed for Rio de Janeiro, with Killwick still restrained, and bearing a dispatch explaining the situation from Greene to Rear-Admiral
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lying at Buenos Aires. Smith needed a small vessel to run dispatches between Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. He was expecting the arrival of the schooner
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for the Viceroy of Brazil. The grounding required her to undergo repairs that the Portuguese paid for.
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In 1808 Admiral Sidney Smith was the British commander-in-chief on the Brazil station after the
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s crew; that evening Barnard dined with them. He informed the survivors of the outbreak of the
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Barnard and his party survived for eighteen months marooned on the islands until the British
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arrived, and instead of Killwick, her Second Master and Assistant Surgeon came on board
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had requested their masters to divert to the area to look for Barnard and his men.
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that a "mania" had overtaken Killwick and that they had had to restrain him with a
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and departed leaving Barnard and three of his crew marooned. Shortly thereafter
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were anchored in the harbour of Buenos Aires on 25 May 1810 during
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in one of the ship's longboats; they made landfall a month later.
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was first condemned as a prize, but then restored to her owners.
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served on the South America station until she was sold in 1813.
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sailing for Rio de Janeiro, which she reached on 15 December.
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struck an uncharted shoal. On 17 June her crew abandoned
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sailed to Rio de Janeiro with the news of the uprising.
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to take care of him. Dixon then confirmed D'Aranda as
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rescued him in November 1814. The British admiral in
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She was carrying 200 Portuguese soldiers to 289:as they salvaged what could be salvaged from 8: 761:The Merchants Magazine and Commercial Review 317:departed together, but soon separated with 545:was only awarded salvage for that part of 193:transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil 653: 19:For other ships with the same name, see 802:Australian Shipwrecks - vol 1 1622-1850 747: 678: 624: 576: 735: 692: 665: 638: 27: 716: 704: 39: 7: 924:Merchant ships of the United Kingdom 458:On 8 February 1813 the British ship 163:was the two-masted mercantile brig 474:was sent to rescue the survivors. 117:10 ft 0 in (3.05 m) 14: 782:. 5 January 1822. pp. 22–23. 492:and discovered the remainder of 40: 234:grounded in the estuary of the 846:. Rotherfield: Jean Boudriot. 373:was at anchor in Buenos Aires 1: 861:Miller, David M.O. (1995). 515:, who took her as a prize. 940: 919:Age of Sail merchant ships 804:. 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Index

HMS Nancy
Royal Navy Ensign
United Kingdom
bm
Sails
Sidney Smith
Royal Navy
Buenos Aires
transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil
Mistletoe
Foudroyant
River Plate
Colonnia
Agamemnon
Michael de Courcy
Gorriti Island
Jonas Rose
Mutine
hired armed
Pitt
May Week
Bonne Citoyenne
roads
straitjacket
Manley Dixon
Montagu
History of the Falkland Islands § Isabella
Eagle Island
River Plate
Captain Charles Barnard

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