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Trafalgar Ancestors

Details

 
 

Bartholomew Hyatt aged 31 born in Cork, Ireland.

Ship: HMS Ajax

Rating/Rank: Yeoman of the Sheets

 
   
 

Service details

 
   

HMS Ardent

15 September 1790 to 26 July 1791
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Nimble

4 February 1793 to 27 March 1793
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Invincible

1 July 1793 to 6 October 1795
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Juste

7 October 1795 to 21 October 1795
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

22 October 1795 to 16 May 1796
Rank/rating: Quartergunner

HMS Gibraltar

11 April 1801 to 17 March 1804
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

18 March 1804 to 28 July 1804
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Sheets

HMS Ajax

29 July 1804 (Was at Trafalgar)
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Sheets

HMS Atlas

10 April 1807 to 19 June 1807
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

HMS Magnificent

20 June 1807 to 28 April 1808
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Sheets

HMS Warspite

29 April 1808 to 27 May 1808
Rank/rating: Able Seaman

27 May 1808 to 27 October 1808
Rank/rating: Yeoman of the Powder Room

HMS Nightingale

6 November 1808 to 16 September 1811
Rank/rating: Boatswain

HMS Venus

17 September 1811 to 4 October 1811
Rank/rating: Boatswain

HMS Namur

5 October 1811 to 5 October 1811
Rank/rating: Supernumerary
Comments: Invalided from HMS Namur.
26 October 1811 to 21 February 1812
Rank/rating: Boatswain

HMS Leonidas

22 February 1812 to 8 August 1813
Rank/rating: Boatswain
Comments: Served in Portsmouth Dockyard (extra) from 15 October 1813 to 10 February 1814 as a rigger.

HMS Abundance

18 February 1814 to 18 March 1820
Rank/rating: Boatswain

HMS Camel

19 March 1820 to 23 October 1821
Rank/rating: Boatswain

HMS Dromedary

24 October 1821 to 13 March 1826
Rank/rating: Boatswain
Comments: Served in Bermuda dockyard as a Boatswain 14 March-16 September 1826.
Comments: Served in Woolwich Dockyard (ordinary) 17 September 1826-21 October 1828 as a Boatswain.

HMS Illustrious

31 October 1828 to 19 August 1831
Rank/rating: Boatswain
20 August 1831 to 23 September 1835
Rank/rating: Boatswain
 
   
 

Sources used

 
   

Catalogue reference: ADM 36/16538

Catalogue reference: ADM 29/4

 
 

Last updated: 11 October 2004

 
 

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