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How the navy's share-out of captured ships worked, argued from Georgian court records.
Lecture / talk
The Royal Navy of the Napoleonic wars ran partly on the prospect of loot: capture an enemy ship and the crew shared its value. Grahame Aldous, a King's Counsel who took a doctorate on the subject, traces how a custom rooted in plunder was turned into a system fine enough to sustain four years of litigation between Nelson and Lord St Vincent over who was owed what. Part of King's Maritime History Seminars, free, and run as a hybrid.
Thursday 8 October 2026: from 17:00
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