Talk:HMS Alceste (1806)

Patrick O'Brian
As a suggestion for the further improvement of this article Patrick O'Brian's novels The Thirteen Gun Salute and The Nutmeg of Consolation appear to draw heavily on the events around the loss of Alceste. Nick-D (talk) 10:04, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Moored off Pensacola
I do not think the Alceste was in Pensacola in December 1814, but was moored off Pensacola. There had been a diplomatic incident in Pensacola a month previous. If I recall what I have recently seen, this should be amended, sources permitting. Keith H99 (talk) 11:36, 18 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I have seen this for a different vessel, but remain convinced that owing to the incident of the prior month, the British were very much persona non grata in Pensacola, and would not have been able to enter the harbour.


 * Despatch from Cochrane to the Admiralty dated 16 December 1814, whilst aboard the Armide moored off Cat Island
 * HAVING arrived at the Anchorage off Chande-
 * leur island on the 8h instant, Captain Gordon,
 * of the Seahorse (whose ship, with the Armide and
 * Sophie, I had sent on from off Pensacola to the
 * anchorage [Ship Island]'


 * Reproduced in the London Gazette, Publication date:9 March 1815, Issue:16991, Page:446 Keith H99 (talk) 12:20, 18 December 2021 (UTC)