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Selection From the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood
Excerpt from Selection From the Public and Private Correspondence of Vice-Admiral Lord Collingwood: Interspersed With Memoirs of His Life Few persons are unacquainted with the part which Lord Col lingwood bore in some of the most memorable naval triumphs of the last war; and among the members of his own profession, his almost unrivalled skill as a seaman, and his general talents for com mand, will long be remembered with admiration: but as he was a man of retired habits, and passed the greater part of his life at sea, the public at large have not had sufficient means of appreci ating the high qualities and attainments by which he was distin guished. It has, therefore, been deemed advisable t...
Cuthbert Collingwood
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In the Shadow of Nelson
Vice Admiral Cuthbert (Cuddy) Collingwood may have been 10 years older than Horatio Nelson but he was Nelson's close friend from the outset. They served together for over 30 years and only at Trafalgar, was Nelson his superior officer. The relationship is all the stranger as their temperaments greatly differed. Collingwood was reserved, austere and shy but utterly competent which was why Nelson's meteoric career was so closely linked to his. Collingwood's reputation was made in battles such as The Glorious First of June (1794) and Cape St Vincent (1797). Collingwood's career survived reverses; he was court-martialed in 1777 by a commander for whom he had no respect. He was acquitted. Collingwood in The Royal Sovereign led the lee column at Trafalgar. After assuming command of the Fleet on Nelson's death he was the author of the famous Trafalgar Despatch that announced the victory and death of Nelson to the Nation. He became Commander in Chief Mediterranean Fleet but was never to return home. He died at sea in 1810. He is buried beside Nelson in St. Paul's Cathedral.
