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Grindall is one of the Trafalgar Captains of whom little is known. He had a worthy but unremarkable career before the battle and fell quickly into obscurity after it. Moreover, his ship, hmsPrince, played little part in the action: in the words of Lieutenant Frederick Hoffman of hmsTonnant, she ‘sailed like a Haystack.’