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.
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.
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.
The captain's cot. Not bad lodgings at all.
And even beneath the captain's cot there was a cannon waiting to be used in battle.