Notes and sources about HM Marines

More from Steering to Glory. This is aboard the fictional HMS Splendid during the forenoon watch, 8am to noon, on a real day in June 1810. All events and people are based on actual historical fact, as noted in the author's notes, added at the end of the post here. This is copied exactly, with the addition of lj-cuts at suitable points - I have not edited the text beyond adding those in where the author changes topic a little, to make it easier to read on screen.

( On the Quarterdeck of HMS Splendid )

( Notes below )

( Upper deck of HMS Splendid )

( Soldiers Serving as Marines )

( The men's role )

( Notes )

(Taken from Steering to Glory: A Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line, a secondary source by Nicholas Blake.)

( Describing a 74 (based on Bellona) )

( From Chapter 2: Washing the Weather Decks (Middle watch - midnight to 4am) )

( On Marines and the Master-at-Arms )

( Notes for above excerpts )

From The Marine Volunteer: containing the exercise, firings, and evolutions of a battalion of infantry. To which is added sea-duty and a supplement by Terence O'Loghlen (from 1760) (p111)

( Sea Duty )

(From A military treatise on the discipline of the marine forces... by John MacIntire, a facsimile of the original text)
(Spelling, punctuation capitalisation and emphasis as in original, with the exception of the long 'f' form of the letter 's')

( Excerpt )