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HMS Pickle Books

These books make references to Nelson and Pickle and are well worth a read.

The Pickle at Trafalgar is available to buy.
The Pickle at Trafalgar

Useful reference books for HMS Pickle.

England Expects - Nelson and the Trafalgar Campaign

Dudley Pope - Chatham Publishing 1998 - p15 to 30 -First published in 1959
Chapter One Page entirely devoted to HMS Pickle and Lt Lapenotiere's famous journey from Trafalgar to Falmouth and London.

The Ships of Trafalgar - The British, French and Spanish Fleets October 1805

Peter Goodwin - Keeper & Curator of HMS Victory - Conway Maritime Press 2005 -p154 to 159
A brilliantly definitive and detailed account with illustrations and plans of every ship at Trafalgar.

The Trafalgar Companion - A Guide to History's Most Famous Sea Battle and the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson

Mark Adkin - Aurum Press 2005 - p68, 73,132,348,410,433,469,481,516 & 535.
An amazingly comprehensive guide to everything connected with the Battle of Trafalgar with over 200 illustrations.

Trafalgar - The Men, the Battle and the Storm

Tim Clayton & Phil Craig - Hodder & Stoughton 2004 - p112, 251,252,257,275,325,342,351 & 362.
Authoritatively told through the diaries, letters and memoirs of the men who were at Trafalgar as well as through the eyes of their wives and children.

Other book references for Admiral Lord Nelson, Trafalgar and seafaring in the Napoleonic Period

The Nelson Encyclopaedia - People, Places, Battles, Ships, Myths, Mistresses, Memorials & Memorabilia

Colin White - Chatham Publishing 2002
Broad overview of Nelson's Life and Times (but does not include HMS Pickle)

Nelson

Carola Oman - Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd 1947
Probably the finest autobiography of the Life of Admiral Lord Nelson.

Nelson - The Man and the Legend

Terry Coleman - Bloomsbury Publishing 2001
Good account of the life of Lord Nelson (but no reference to HMS Pickle)

Nelson - Britannia's God of War

Andrew Lambert - Faber & Faber 2004
Examines Nelson, the man and fleet commander and his approach and strategies to naval warfare.

Nelson - A Dream Of Glory

John Sugden - Jonathan Cape 2004
A brilliant 700 page biography of Nelson's life up to his retirement on half pay to his home at Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk in 1797. Part Two by John Sugden with all the glory years is still to come. (HMS Pickle was not bought into service by the Royal Navy until 1800).

The Schooner - Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present

David R. MacGregor - Chatham Publishing 1997 p41 to 47
Chapter on Naval Schooners of the period, similar to HMS Pickle, which then went on to become the Adonis Class of Royal Navy schooners.

The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor - or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship

Darcy Lever - Dover Publications Inc. New York 1998 (First Published by John Richardson in London 1819)
Explains seamanship in Admiral Lord Nelson' time and still valuable today. Patrick O'Brian probably consulted this when writing his books about Jack Aubrey