AWAY FROM THE FACTS
Sir,-Referring to "M.B.’s" comment in Radio Review on Alan Gibson’s Trafalgar, the Decisive Battle, I certainly did not know about "the cabin boy who wished Nelson would stop hoisting signals and let everyone get on with the job." Admiral Collingwood’s biographer (the admiral’s relative, C, L, Newnham Collingwood), who got the story at first hand from officers of H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, says that when they were nearing the enemy’s line and Nelson made his famous signal, "England expects that every man will do his
duty," Collingwood said he wished NelSoh would make no more signals, for they all understood what they had to do. But when the purport df the signal was communicated to him, Collingwood expressed great delight and admiration, and made it known to his ship’s company. After more than half a century of knowledge to the contrary, I was amazed to be told by John Nesbitt that Nansen was.the sole survivor of the Fram’s company on the famous Arctic voyage. I had long known, of course, that the Fram was preserved inthe Norwegian Nautical Museum-at Oslo. I was also surprised by A. R. D. Fairburn in "Notes on the Traffic Problem" quoting a wife as saying "Who do you think I ran into .. ."
S.D.
W.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 5
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213AWAY FROM THE FACTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 779, 25 June 1954, Page 5
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