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Cochrane's HMS Imperieuse

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December 19, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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Happy New Year! 🫡

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December 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Cochrane's famous recruitment poster for HMS PALLAS
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December 7, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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Leadlight windows of Lord Cochrane in the Naval Glories room at the Maritime Museum in Valparaiso, Chile. The museum shows the history of Chilean Navy.

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November 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Finished!
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February 14, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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Lord Cochrane's boarding pistols

Source: Museo Marítimo Nacional, Chile.
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December 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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OTD in 1801
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May 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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OTD in 2023, I finally finished my Cochrane figurine 😅.

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February 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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I absolutely love this beautiful stained glass window!!!
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rdwglass.bsky.social Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social · Jan 20
Finishing touches to our Admiral Cochrane stained glass window. One of Scotland's finest Admirals. Inspiration for many a nautical tale... inc Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey / Master and Commander film.

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January 20, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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OTD in 1832 Lord Cochrane was reinstated into the Royal Navy.
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May 2, 2026 at 6:30 AM
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Monument honouring Lord Cochrane, Valdivia, Chile
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November 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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It is indeed absolute absurd that there is no great memorial to Cochrane in Edinburgh

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September 25, 2026 at 10:17 AM
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June 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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On Monday, the Chilean Naval Mission in the UK laid a wreath at Cochrane’s tomb in Westminster Abbey marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of Admiral Lord Cochrane.

(Images shamelessly stolen from X)
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December 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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youtube.com/watch?v=yiV5...

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Why 'Scotland's Nelson' deserves a statue in Edinburgh
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September 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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... earned him his promotion of commander of the SPEEDY.

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June 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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After 38 years I have picked up a pencil again....
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February 13, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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HMS Wellesley, Cochrane's flagship when he was Commander-in-Chief North America and West Indies station
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December 20, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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OTD in 1800, Thomas Cochrane was appointed commander of His Majesty's sloop the Speedy.
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March 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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HMS Warrior. Her first captain was Lord Cochrane's third born son, Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane.
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November 21, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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OTD in 1838, Lord Cochrane was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Red
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June 28, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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OTD in 1814

'The name of Lord Cochrane to be struck out of the list of captains in the royal navy.'
MELVILLE

Portsmouth, 23rd June, 1814

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June 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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My 1861 edition of Cochrane's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A SEAMAN including charts of Basque Roads.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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thoscochrane.bsky.social Lord Cochrane @thoscochrane.bsky.social · Jun 2
'No officer ever attempted or succeeded in more arduous enterprises with so little loss. Before he fired a shot he reconnoitred in person, took soundings and bearings, passed whole nights in the boats, his lead line and spy glass incessantly at work. Another fixed principle...

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June 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM