Admiral Thomas Cochrane, was the inspiration for C.S. Forester’s naval hero Horatio Hornblower or Patrick O’Brian’s, Jack Aubrey (played by Russell Crow in the film, “Master and Commander”).

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Largely forgotten to the general public, yet he was one of the Royal Navy’s most audacious and feared commanders during the Napoleonic Wars, known to his enemies as the wolf of the sea and El Diablo (the devil).
In a rollercoaster career, he didn’t just fight in the Royal Navy but also in the navies of Chile, Brazil and Greece in their wars of independence too.

An engineer, who worked with the father of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and whose inventions are still used today; he eloped with a woman 20 years his junior and was humiliatingly thrown out of parliament and stripped of his knighthood after being convicted of serious fraud.

he ended his days, honour restored and is buried in Westminster Abbey.

The life of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane (Lord Cochrane / Earl Dundonald) is one heck of a story!

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Chapters:
0:00 Thomas Cochrane Intro
1:36 HMS Speedy
2:41 Attack El Gamo
4:28 Captured by French
5:17 HMS Arab Incident
6:09 Member of Parliament
6:37 Battle of Basque Roads
8:45 The Hero
9:25 The Fall
11:40 The Liberator
13:48 The Engineer
14:17 The Return
15:06 Crimean War
15:57National Hero


Thomas Cochrane's Life

1775 Born
1793 Joins Royal Navy (Midshipman)
1800 Commands HMS Dpeedy
1801 Successful attack on frigate, El Gamo
1801 Captured by French
1803 Captain, HMS Arab
1804 Captain, HMS Pallas
1807 Member of Parliament
1809 Battle of Basque Roads
1812 Married Katherine Barnes
1814 Great Stock Exchange Fraud
1818 Patents Tunnel Shield (with Marc Isambard Brunel)
1818 Vice Admiral Chilean navy
1823 First Admiral Brazilian navy
1831 Pardoned
1848 Knighthood re-instated
1848 Commander in Chief, North America & West Indies station
1851 Admiral (Royal Navy)
1860 Died. Buried in Westminster Abbey.
May, every year to this day, Chilean navy lay a wreath on his grave.


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