![Please click on image to go to other web site links which refer to Admiral Lord Nelson. [Portrait of Admiral Lord Nelson, 1800, by Heinrich Füger. (Oil on canvas) © The Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth]](images/portrait_of_nelson.jpg)
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My Life> Half-pay, 1787-1793Half-pay, 1787-1793The Boreas being paid off at Sheerness on November the 30th 1787, I lived at Burnham Thorpe, county of Norfolk, in the Parsonage House. In 1790, when the Affair with Spain relative to Nookta Sound, had near involved us in a war, I made use of every interest to get a Ship, ay even a boat, to serve my Country, but in vain: there was a prejudice at the Admiralty evidently against me, which I can neither guess at, or in the least account for.
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