Talk:Richard Bowen (Royal Navy officer)

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Did you know... that Captain Richard Bowen (pictured), commanding the 32-gun HMS Terpsichore, attacked the largest warship in the world at the time, the 136-gun Santísima Trinidad?

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Bowen's first expedition to Santa Cruz, Tenerife

I don't think the first sentence under the heading "Santa Cruz and death" is accurate. Agreed, Dr John Campbell does say this in his biography of Richard Bowen in the seventh volume of The Naval History of Great Britain, but I think he has the day right (18th) but the month (June) wrong. The visit took place in April and the cutting out (for which I have added a section) on the night of 17/18 April. My evidence for this is a letter from the Terpsichore's First Lieutenant George Thorp to his father dated 18th May, of which I have a copy, which he wrote when the Terpsichore was once more off Cadiz, in which he describes the cutting out expedition in detail, having been in command of the three boats from the Terpsichore. -- Scribes52 (talk) 09:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have now removed the first sentence "Jervis sent Bowen to reconnoitre off Tenerife, and at midnight on 18 June he captured a rich ship from the Manillas bound for Cadiz.[26]" under "Santa Cruz and death", as I believe it to be inaccurate and superseded by the fuller description I have added under "Cutting Out of the Principe Fernando". Scribes52 (talk) 07:29, 18 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]