Taking a pause from the battle, we took a look around Captain Thomas Hardy's quarters, aft of the Quarterdeck.
This was his day room.
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And the captain's cabin.
His 'sea chest' would have contained all of his personal belongings, plus uniforms, etc much like my holdall when I go to work offshore. Everything was kept contained because as soon as 'Battle Stations' was announced, the captains cabin became as much a part of the the fighting ship as any other part of the gun decks. Everything was cleared for battle and the cannons manned. I think this cannon would have been called the 'stern chaser', a smaller caliber but with longer range than the cannons used for the broadsides.
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A view out of the captain's cabin stern windows. Today we see a modern day aircraft carrier... which couldn't have even been dreamt about in 1805 when Thomas Hardy looked out at the French and Spanish fleet at Trafalgar.
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The captain's cot. Not bad lodgings at all.
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And even beneath the captain's cot there was a cannon waiting to be used in battle.
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