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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 145

Naval General Service 1793-1840, three clasps, Trafalgar, Martinique, Guadaloupe (Edward Goodlad, Midshipman), extremely fine Estimate £ 6,000-8,000 Edward Goodlad served as Midshipman in H.M.S. Neptune 98 guns (Captain F. Fremantle) and is verified as being aboard (The Naval General Service Medal Roll 1793-1840, Captain K.J. Douglas-Morris, refers) during the major fleet action off Cape Trafalgar between the British fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson and the Franco-Spanish fleet under the command of Vice-Admiral P.C. de Villeneuve, 21.10.1805. At Trafalgar the Neptune ´was the third ship in the weather column. She got into action about 1.45pm, when she hauled up for the nearest of the enemy´s ships, and passing immediately under the stern of the French Bucentaure, delivered her broadside into it with terrible effect. She then continued under the stern and along the starboard side of the Spanish Santissima Trinidad, and luffed up to leeward of the huge four-decker, which had already suffered badly, and which she fought until the Spaniard became wholly unmanageable. The Neptune was afterward somewhat severely handled by several ships of the combined van, which raked her after they bore up. She lost forty-four killed and wounded in the battle. Her masts and her standing and running rigging were all more or less damaged, and she had nine shots between wind and water. On the following day she took the Royal Sovereign in tow, but afterwards towed the Victory to Gibraltar.´ (The Trafalgar Roll, The Officers, The Men, The Ships, Colonel R.H. Mackenzie refers); Goodlad served as the same rank and in the same vessel (Rear Admiral A. Cochrane´s flagship) as part of the combined naval and military assault and capture of the French-held island of Martinique in the Caribbean Sea, 24.2.1809; he continued to serve as the same rank in H.M.S. Pompee (Rear Admiral A. Cochrane´s flagship) during the combined naval and military operations commanded by Vice Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane and Lieutenant General Sir George Beckwith which culminated in the capture of the French-held island of Guadaloupe, January-February 1810. Lieutenant Edward Goodlad, R.N., born Calcutta, India; entered the Royal Navy, as Volunteer 1st Class, March 1804, and from that year served in ´the Neptune 98, Capts. Wm. O´Brien Drury, Sir Thos. Williams, and Thos. Fras. Fremantle, under the latter of whom he fought, as Midshipman, at Trafalgar, 21 Oct. 1805´ (O´Byrne refers); served in H.M.S. St. George (Captain T. Bertie), from 1806; served under Cochrane in the Neptune and the Pompee, 1808-1810; subsequent service included in H.M. Ships Blonde, Bellona, Standard, Bulwark and Milford the latter being the flag-ship of Rear-Admiral T.F. Fremantle; Lieutenant 22.1.1814; served in that rank with H.M.S. Edinburgh (Captain Hon. G.H.L. Dundas) and ´under the latter officer Mr. Goodlad, in 1813-14, witnessed the capture of Port d´Anzo, the unsuccessful attack on Leghorn, the reduction of the fortress of Santa Maria, and of the enemy´s other forts and defences in the Gulf of Spezia and the fall of Genoa´ (Ibid); after service in the Boyne, Queen Charlotte and the Hyacinth Goodlad was appointed to H.M.S. Cambridge (Captain T.J. Maling), for service on the South American Station, 1823; officiated as Agent for Transports Afloat, 1836-1838; died 1849.

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