position entitled The Naval Battle and Total Defeat of the Dutch by Admiral Duncan in 1797.
The Royal Navy has commemorated the battle through the four ships that bore the name HMS Camperdown and seven named HMS Duncan, which have maintained close links with Duncan's hometown of Dundee. In Dundee, the Battle of Camperdown is commemorated at Camperdown House, originally the Dundee seat of the Viscounts Camperdown, which was completed in 1828 and later became a public park and tourist attraction. The bicentennial of the battle was celebrated in Dundee in 1997 with the "Glorious Victory" exhibition at the city's McManus Galleries in conjunction with Camperdown House and the National Museum of Scotland. The exhibition became a popular tourist attraction and was viewed by more than 50,000 visitors. On 11 October a memorial service was held to remember the dead and a new statue of Admiral Duncan unveiled in the town.
- Although most sources give the date of the battle as 11 October, Christopher Lloyd has claimed that as the British naval day ran from noon until noon instead of midnight to midnight, the battle actually began on the morning of what was 12 October 1797 for those on land.
- The first total is taken from the naval abstract of 1793, and the second from the abstract from 1797 (which is incorrectly dated as 1799 in William James).
- The identity of the despatch vessel sent to Duncan by Trollope is disputed. William James, writing in 1827, attributed this action to the hired armed lugger Black Joke, and this was repeated by William Laird Clowes in his 1900 history. However, Edward Pelham Brenton, writing in 1836 named the hired armed cutter Active as the messenger. This view was followed in 2008 by Noel Mostert. In 1963, Christopher Lloyd ascribed the signal to the lugger Speculator, which was followed within hours by the cutters Active and Vestal who brought detailed accounts of De Winter's movements. All of the accounts agree on the manner in which the unknown vessel arrived at Yarmouth. Black Joke was not among the vessels listed as qualifying for either the prize money for the captured Dutch ships, nor for the Naval General Service Medal, though both Active and Speculator were.
- There is disagreement as to the identity of Monnikkendam 's companion in this attack, with James naming the brig as Atalante while Clowes claims in a footnote that James was mistaken and that the ship was in fact Daphné.
- William James reports that Admiral De Winter died during his imprisonment in London from a "chronic disease". In fact, De Winter did not die in the aftermath of the battle, and eventually returned to service with the Dutch Navy.
- Several sources, including Brenton and James, record that Trollope and Fairfax were made "Knights Banneret" by King George III. However, these awards were never recorded in The London Gazette and no formal Knights Banneret had been created since Sir John Smith at the Battle of Edgehill in 1642. It is much more likely that these knighthoods, which first appear in formal records in December 1797 without their nature being specified, were as Knights Bachelor.
- Lavery, p. 161
- Lloyd, p. 139
- Chandler, p. 44
- Gardiner, p. 170
- Crimmin, P. K. "Duncan, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (subscription or UK public library membership required). Retrieved 15 March 2010.
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- Clowes, p. 553
- Gardiner, p. 138
- Pakenham, p. 29
- James, Vol. 1 p. 375
- James, p. 399
- Gardiner, p. 165
- Manwaring & Dobree, p. 23
- Manwaring & Dobree, p. 24
- Manwaring & Dobree, p. 39
- Gardiner, p. 167
- Manwaring & Dobree, p. 112
- Lloyd, p. 109
- Padfield, p. 83
- Padfield, p. 84
- Padfield, p. 88
- Clowes, p. 324
- Padfield, p. 93
- Clowes, p. 325
- Tracy, p. 224
- Padfield, p. 94
- Padfield, p. 95
- Lloyd, p. 137
- Brenton, p. 353
- Lloyd, p. 128
- Lloyd, p. 130
- Clowes, p. 327
- Padfield, p. 97
- James, p. 66
- Brenton, p. 347
- Mostert, p. 230
- Lloyd, p. 133
- Clowes, p. 326
- James, p. 68
- James, p. 67
- Lloyd, p. 138
- Rodger, p. 456
- James, p. 69
- Padfield, p. 98
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