^{FN1 Ch11} Murdoch, History of Nova Scotia, vol. 3, pp. 341-2.

^{FN2 Ch11} By this time the captain, the crew and the ship -- all, had an ample opportunity to get to know one another. Captain Broke had "an excellent crew in his frigate. He had made that excellent crew in his own hands, so to speak, by six years of generous treatment and wholesome discipline." [C. H. J. Snider's Under The Red Jack (Toronto: Musson, n.d.) at p 134.]

^{FN3 Ch11} Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 71.

^{FN4 Ch11} http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/S1.HTM : 3/13/2005

^{FN5 Ch11} Before copper plates, the British navy smeared the bottoms with "a compound, such a mixture of tallow, sulphur and resin, to repel wood-boring 'ship-worm' and other molluscs like barnacles. This was a common method of protection but it did not stop weed growing on the hull. Marine growth such as shellfish or weed affected sailing ability. After much experimentation, it was found that covering the underwater hull with copper plates kept off both worm and weed. Between 1778 and 1781 most of the fleet was coppered." (http://www.nmm.ac.uk)

^{FN6 Ch11} On October 7th the Shannon sailed out of Halifax Harbour in company with the 24-gun Goree on a cruise. A letter to his wife (Louisa, or as Broke affectionately called her, Loo), is dated "Shannon off Philadelphia, October 13th, 1811." Another is dated "Off New York, Oct 27th." In the letter of the 27th, he writes, "If there is an American war ... our services will be brilliant for a short while and then there will be nothing but blockade and I may as well go home." As quoted by Padfield in his work, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), pp. 72-3.

^{FN7 Ch11} http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/S1.HTM : 3/13/2005

^{FN8 Ch11} Though, that December, we see Broke was writing his wife from St. George's, Bermuda. Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 77.

^{FN9 Ch11} http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/S1.HTM : 3/13/2005

^{FN10 Ch11} The Shannon was showing her wear and tear having been at been at sea for weeks and months at a time. Broke was not that concerned about outward appearances; better to keep the crew busy with the rigging and with their guns. In any event, Broke's vessel, "like his person, was never artificially adorned." [Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 74.] Broke's cabin below the quarter deck, just as his ship and everything in it, was, strictly functional; his cabin "contained little which might hinder the carpenters when it came to stripping the timber partitions for action." It was of course in the captain's cabin that up to four cannons could be leveled and aimed out the stern windows.

^{FN11 Ch11} Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 120. Padfield, further on (p.71), wrote that such "continuous, grinding devotion to the fighting efficiency of the ship was becoming increasingly rare in the Service as a consequence, inevitable enough, of its unchallanged supremacy. ... Captains provided brass fittings and extra paint at their own expense and took immense pride in the yacht-like appearance of their vessels and the number of seconds in which their people could run up a t'gallant yard or put all canvas on from bare poles ... There was precious little real fighting to be done; war ships had, by merchant standards, enormous crews who had to be kept employed; idleness only bred thought and thought disaffection."

^{FN12 Ch11} Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 120.

^{FN13 Ch11} "A want of general culture is the weak point of naval men. But Philip Broke was a reader through his life, and so far a Latinist as not to only appreciate Horace thoroughly, but to be able to express himself in decent Latin prose." (Murdoch, Vol. 3, p. 352.)

^{FN14 Ch11} Lord Rosebery, Pitt (London: MacMillan, 1891) at p. 158-9.

^{FN15 Ch11} Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 217.

^{FN16 Ch11} http://www.stvincent.ac.uk/Heritage/1797/index2.html : 10/12/2005

^{FN17 Ch11} Allen, Battles of the British Navy, Vol. 2, p. 421.

^{FN18 Ch11} Mahan, Sea Power in its Relations to The War of 1812, vol. 2, p. 9.

^{FN19 Ch11} "In the phrase of the gunners, the balls left the barrel all right but the Lord alone knew what happened to them after that." [C. H. J. Snider's Under The Red Jack (Toronto: Musson, n.d.) at p 172.]

^{FN20 Ch11} http://www.nmm.ac.uk

^{FN21 Ch11} See the OED.

^{FN22 Ch11} The detail is taken from Bohn's Battles of the British Navy, pp. 424-31; and, Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 144.

^{FN23 Ch11} On the 29th of May, the Shannon fell in with the Liverpool privateer, Sir John Sherbrooke. The Sir John Sherbrooke was in company with her latest prize, the American privateer, General Plumer which had been captured just two days earlier. Now, it so happened that the General Plumer had captured British citizens aboard who had been taken out of a vessel that had been making its way from Waterford to Newfoundland. A number of Irishmen were aboard. Thus Broke, realizing he might beef up his crew, took twenty-two of the youngest and toughest who had stepped forward when Broke called for volunteers. They apparently were only too happy to serve on ship called the Shannon. [Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 144.]

^{FN24 Ch11} Battles of the British Navy, Vol. 2, p. 425. The Shannon had been continuously off the mouth of Boston harbour, at that point, for a total of fifty-six days and during that time had used up most of her provisions. She had taken some provisions off her companion, the 38-gun Tenedos before Broke sent her away. [See Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 142.]

^{FN25 Ch11} In addition to the following spectator fleet, the citizens of Boston "rushed to the waterfront or the roofs of nearby buildings to view this latest British ship offering herself as a prize to their naval heroes ... the coffee houses were abuzz with organizations for a great celebration supper ... And at the Navy yard they cleared a wharf to accommodate her [the Shannon's] riven remains when she was brought in." [Padfield, Broke and the Shannon (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1968), p. 152.]

^{FN26 Ch11} "The two ships met at half past five in the afternoon 20 miles east of Boston lighthouse between Cape Ann and Cape Cod." (http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/S1.HTM : 3/13/2005)

^{FN27 Ch11} "Dockyard Reminiscences" NSHS, #18 (1914), p. 61.

^{FN28 Ch11} Battles of the British Navy, Vol. 2, p. 426.

^{FN29 Ch11} Murdoch, Vol. 3, p. 354.

^{FN30 Ch11} Allen, Battles of the British Navy, Vol. 2, p. 427.