A Royal Navy fleet under Vice Admiral…

March 1854 CE

A Royal Navy fleet under Vice Admiral Sir Charles Napier sails from Britain on March 11, bound for the Baltic Sea.

This is the largest fleet that the Royal Navy has assembled since the Napoleonic Wars.

This is not without misgivings on the part of the Admiralty, but Napier is the most senior and experienced officer available.

Napier hoists his flag in February 1854 in the steam ship of the line Duke of Wellington, his subordinate commanders being the rear-admirals Armar Lowry Corry, second in command, Henry Ducie Chads, third in command, and James Hanway Plumridge, commanding the scouting forces.

They are all elderly men, at most a year or so younger than Napier himself, who is nearly seventy.

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