25th Apr, 2012 12:00

Maritime and Scientific Models, Instruments & Art (Anzac)

 
  Lot 58
 

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[M] AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL MARINE'S PRIVATE...

AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL MARINE'S PRIVATE POCKET JOURNAL, KEPT BY LT. PAUL HARRIS NICHOLAS ABOARD H.M.S. BELLEISLE AND INCLUDING HIS SERVICE AT TRAFALGAR
begun on 6th July 1805 and written in a small, neat hand over thirty pages (sixty sides) and noting his part in various actions and events, noting men wounded, transfers, the Death of Nelson, with good narrative descriptions over several pages, the account of Trafalgar taking up seventeen sides and including plan of attack, bound between original board with brass clasp -- 3¼ x 4¾in. (8 x 12cm.)

Lieutenant Paul Harris Nicholas (c.1790-1860) became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Marines on 6 July 1805, was promoted Lieutenant on 27 July 1808 and was placed on half-pay (effectively retired) in September 1814. He served in the 74-gun Belleisle at Trafalgar, under Captain William Hargood, and is known to have produced at least one other watercolour of the battle showing the position of his own ship at 1.00pm.; Belleisle was so badly damaged by enemy fire that she eventually had to be towed out of the action by the frigate Naiad.
After Trafalgar, Nicholas also saw action in the attack on the Basque Roads in 1810 and survived to receive the Naval General Service medal with two clasps in 1848. One of his brothers was Sir N.H. Nicholas, G.C.M.G., the compiler of the monumental work which published all Lord Nelson's extant letters and despatches in the 1840s

Sold for £3,472
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(inc. buyer's premium of 24%)


 
AN EARLY 19TH-CENTURY ROYAL MARINE'S PRIVATE POCKET JOURNAL, KEPT BY LT. PAUL HARRIS NICHOLAS ABOARD H.M.S. BELLEISLE AND INCLUDING HIS SERVICE AT TRAFALGAR
begun on 6th July 1805 and written in a small, neat hand over thirty pages (sixty sides) and noting his part in various actions and events, noting men wounded, transfers, the Death of Nelson, with good narrative descriptions over several pages, the account of Trafalgar taking up seventeen sides and including plan of attack, bound between original board with brass clasp -- 3¼ x 4¾in. (8 x 12cm.)

Lieutenant Paul Harris Nicholas (c.1790-1860) became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Marines on 6 July 1805, was promoted Lieutenant on 27 July 1808 and was placed on half-pay (effectively retired) in September 1814. He served in the 74-gun Belleisle at Trafalgar, under Captain William Hargood, and is known to have produced at least one other watercolour of the battle showing the position of his own ship at 1.00pm.; Belleisle was so badly damaged by enemy fire that she eventually had to be towed out of the action by the frigate Naiad.
After Trafalgar, Nicholas also saw action in the attack on the Basque Roads in 1810 and survived to receive the Naval General Service medal with two clasps in 1848. One of his brothers was Sir N.H. Nicholas, G.C.M.G., the compiler of the monumental work which published all Lord Nelson's extant letters and despatches in the 1840s
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