Admiral Sir Henry Digby GCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Born into a long-established naval family, his uncle was Admiral Robert Digby. Digby we
Portrait of Digby
Lady Jane Elizabeth Coke, widow of Charles Nevison Howard, Viscount Andover
HMS Africa (1781)
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HMS Africa was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched by William Barnard at Barnard's Thames Yard in Deptford on 11 April 1781.
Henry Digby (Royal Navy officer)
…months. His richest capture came in the action of 16 October 1799 when he assisted in the taking of the Spanish frigate Santa Brigida. Digby commanded HMS Africa at the Battle of Trafalgar, manoeuvring her into the Franco-Spanish fleet against orders, having been instructed by Horatio Nelson to avoid battle…
HMS Africa
HMS Conqueror towing Africa off the shoals at Trafalgar, three days after the battle, painting by James Wilson Carmichael
Constitution's escape from the British squadron after a chase of sixty hours, 1816