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Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

Royal Navy admiral (1748–1810)

For the English naturalist, surgeon and physician, see Cuthbert Collingwood (naturalist).

Vice AdmiralCuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood (26 September 1748 – 7 March 1810) was an admiral of the Royal Navy. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age, eventually rising from midshipman to lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill during which he led a naval brigade. In the 1780s and 1790s Collingwood would participate in the French Revolutionary Wars, during which time he captained several ships and reached the rank of Post Captain. He took part in several key naval battles of the time, including the Glorious First of June and the Battle of Cape St Vincent.

In 1799, he was promoted to rear-admiral and later vice-admiral, where he undertook a variety of command roles during the Napoleonic Wars, including serving as second in command of the British Fleet und

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Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, Lord Collingwood

‘See how that noble fellow Collingwood takes his ship into action!’ remarked Nelson to Captain Henry Blackwood. The Royal Sovereign leading the Lee Division was bearing down on the rear of the Combined Fleet, engaging the enemy at least fifteen minutes before any other British ship. As a midshipman observing him more closely recollected, ‘I see before me dear old Cuddie (as we called Collingwood) walking the break of the poop, with his little triangular gold-laced cocked hat, tight silk stockings, and buckles, musing over the progress of the fight and munching an apple.’ Collingwood was enjoying himself. ‘Oh Rotheram’, he exclaimed to the Royal Sovereign’s captain, ‘what would Nelson give to be here!’ According to Blackwood, ‘he fought like an Angel.’

The Royal Sovereign had a severe duel with the Spanish Santa Ana and sustained much damage to her masts and rigging. When the news came that Nelson was mortally wounded, Collingwood realised that he would have to take command and signalled Blackwood in the Euryalus

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Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1750, Cuthbert was educated at the local Grammar School. It was here under his excellent headmaster, the Reverend Hugh Moises, that Collingwood acquired a love of books and mastered the difficult art of expressing himself in a style of writing which was to make his published correspondence a part of English literature. It is from his letters that we know most about Admiral Collingwood, for, through the medium of the letters, we can penetrate the veil of reserve which prevented men who came into contact with him from recording their impressions. Indeed, surprisingly little is known of the Admiral outside of his own letters.

Collingwood entered the Navy in 1761 when he was eleven years old. From this day until he died at sea, of his fifty years of service in the Royal Navy some forty-four were passed in active service abroad. On one occasion he actually remained at sea for the incredible space of twenty-two months without dropping anchor….

Cuthbert would never allow that he had left home too soon to j