Just in case it helps. I spoke to Mike this afternoon.
The words and music of 'Carrying Nelson Home' are in Mike's book, 'Something in the Soul', which is £7.50 plus £1 p&p.

The song has been recorded by Martyn Wyndham-Read on his last CD. It is beautifully sung (of course) but Martyn's pronunciation one or two of the French words is, shall we say, different.

The places mentioned are the sites of some of Nelson's battles: Cape St. Vincent, the Nile, Hyeres, Cadiz, and Trafalgar.

Mike relates that he once sailed a Nich. 55 off the outer pier at Gib. The land breeze was dead on the bow, so he gently set the sheets of the no.1 jib to windward, which backed the jib and so swung the bow around. Perhaps it was the same for the Victory.

oll an gwella,

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