Admiral Collingwood (q.v.) was not the only North East hero at Trafalgar. In the church which divides the large village greens at Heighington in Durham, we find the marble monument (called 'extravagant' by Pevsner) to Captain William Price Cumby R.N. The inscription reads:

'Captain Superintendent of the Royal Arsenal and in command of the Royal Sovereign Yacht at the Battle of Trafalgar, where at an early period of the engagement he succeeded to the command of the Bellerophon of 74 guns, which was then opposed in the hottest of the action to a superior force.'

Trafalgar House, the home of Captain Cumby and his descendants, stands behind high walls along the road to Aycliffe.
Sir Thomas Bertie, born in Stockton, was another naval hero of the time. One of Nelson's captains, he distinguished himself at the Battle of Copenhagen. Nelson, instead of sending for him, personally came aboard Bertie's ship to thank him.