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  Encyclopedia: Battle-of-Trafalgar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HMS Britannia (1762) was a British 100-gun 1st rate ship of the line which fought at the Battle of Cape St....
HMS Minotaur fought at the Battle of the Nile and the Battle of Trafalgar.
HMS Orion (1787 at Deptford) a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at the Battle of the Nile and at Trafalgar where, with Ajax, she forced the surrender of the French ship Intrépide (74).
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - Weapons and Warfare (P-Z)
The Spartiate was a French 74-gun ship captured by the British at the Nile in 1798.
The Cameron Highlanders were a highland regiment raised by Alan Cameron in 1793.
A party of Royal Marines was landed from HMS Vindictive on the mole, to cause what damage they could, while a submarine packed with explosives went beneath the bridge connecting the mole with the shore and exploded, cutting off the defenders on the mole from any reinforcement.
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 HMS Spartan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Spartan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HMS Spartan - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Spartan.
Here you will find more informations about HMS Spartan.
Seven vessels of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Spartan, in recognition of the military abilities of the Spartans of ancient Greece.
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 Minotaur - Tree For All
Many of the crew at the battle were Cornish, and the frigate HMS Pickle landed at Falmouth and brought news of the battle and Nelson’s death back to Britain.
HMS Minotaur was built at Woolwich dockyard and launched in 1793, and after joining the Mediterranean fleet was present at the battle of the Nile.
At Trafalgar Minotaur was stationed at the rear of the line led by HMS Victory and Admiral Nelson, and by the time she approached the combined French Spanish fleets, fighting had already continued for two hours.
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 Battle of Trafalgar
Sailing in his flagship, HMS Victory, Nelson's strategy was to attack the middle and rear of the enemy fleet, piercing their line and enveloping them with superior numbers and gunpowder - the "pell-mell battle" his revolutionary doctrine called upon to achieve total victory.
The keel of HMS Victory was laid at Chatham, 23rd July 1759, she was launched 7th May 1765.
HMS Victory leading her division is just altering course to starboard in order to pass under the stern of Bucentaure flagship of Admiral Villeneuve, to rake her and break the line during the battle of Trafalgar.
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 Battle of Trafalgar
In the background, HMS Neptune is emerging through the gunsmoke and is about to pass the wreck of the French flagship Bucentaure which Victory so spectacularly routed as she passed through the allied line.
HMS Temeraire, which followed Victory through, and which was also to become embroiled on the Redoutables fight, is obscured by the smoke beyond the British flagship.
Here Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory (followed by HMS Temeraire) is seen breaking the Franco-Spanish line and commencing her murderous hail of gunfire into the stern of Villeneuve's flagship Bucentaure.
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 HMS Spanker - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Spanker   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
HMS Spanker - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation HMS Spanker.
Here you will find more informations about HMS Spanker.
She was sold to the Belgian Navy in 1953.
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 Seaman John Grimshaw   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He recorded his "perticalars" on board HMS Vanguard, (opposite, in a drawing by Grimshaw), a 74-gun ship-of-the-line that served as Nelson's flagship in the battle.
His first flagship upon returning to duty was HMS Vanguard, Captain Edward Berry commanding, and he was immediately sent to cruise off Toulon to determine the intentions of the huge French fleet mustering there under Vice Admiral François Paul Brueys d'Aiguïlliers.
HMS Vanguard is pictured lying near the entrance of Portsmouth harbour at sunset in company with another Nile veteran HMS Majestic.
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 Sailing Ships of the Royal Navy, M2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A Court Martial was held on board HMS CLADIATOR at Portsmouth on 25 May 1814 to try the surviving officers and ship`s company for her loss on their return from captivity.
Destroyed 1793) Used as a powder hulk, she was accidentally burnt by the Spaniards at the evacuation of Toulon on 18 December 1793.
Sold 1802) At the end of 1793 she was in the possession of French Royalists at Toulon but was recaptured by the Republicans in January 1794.
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 HMS Spartiate (1793) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
HMS Spartiate (1793) a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at Trafalgar.
Spartiate was one of nine French ships captured at the Battle of the Nile and was afterwards pressed into service in the Royal Navy.
This page was last modified 04:03, 19 February 2005.
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 Orion - Tree For All
HMS Orion was built at Adams and Barnard’s yard at Deptford on the Thames and launched in 1787.
She had a distinguished record before Trafalgar and took part in the battles of the Glorious First of June, 1794; Isle Groix 1795; St Vincent 1797; and the Nile 1798.
After running repairs on the next morning the Orion took the Spanish Bahamas in tow, but the next day was forced to abandon her because of the gale and heavy seas.
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 PELLEW, EXMOUTH - The Life of Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth By Parkinson, C. Northcote, London, 1934, CHAPTER IX
On March 11th, he was appointed to H.M.S. Tonnant, of eighty guns, a fine ship taken at the Nile, and Lieutenant Warden commissioned her on the 16th.
The Spartiate lost her main-yard yesterday, which is now splicing agreeably to the report enclosed, and it is hoped it may be serviceable ; should it prove otherwise, I shall give
Pitt opened the battle by moving that accounts of the strength of the navy in 1793, 1801, and 1803 should be produced.
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 Leviathan - Tree For All
HMS Leviathan was built at Chatham dockyard and launched in 1790, being one of a class of six modelled on the lines of a captured French 74, the Courageux.
At Trafalgar she was fourth in the column led by HMS Victory abreast of HMS Conqueror and astern of HMS Neptune, and cleared for action to give the guns freedom to fire.
Animals were often kept on board ships at this time to provide fresh eggs and meet, and a sheep given to the ship by Nelson in the West Indies was kept, survived the battle and was taken home by Captain Bayntun to join his family farm.
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 Capt Fredrick Lewis Maitland
From Cape Francois had been taken by HMS Edinburgh retaken by a French privateer and bound for Port au Prince loaded with sugar and indigo Sent a PO and 8 seamen on board to take charge of her and brought the French prisoners on board.
At 3 the sloop put before the wind and the chace fired several shott at her At 5 fired a shott at the sloop.
Captain Maitland was immediately appointed to the Grafton, of seventy-four guns, a ship then in a state of equipment for service at Portsmouth; but quitted that ship very soon afterwards without ever proceeding to sea; peace taking place quickly afterwards, he never, we believe, held any subsequent command.
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 Victory - Tree For All
Nelson’s HMS VICTORY was conceived in December 1758, within just a few months of his birth, when King George II’s ministers decided to build twelve ships of the line, the largest to be a fine first rate of 100 guns.
In 1793 she was the flagship of Lord Hood and took part in the capture of Toulon, and in 1794 she was involved in operations against Bastia, Calvi and San Fiorenzo during the capture of Corsica.
At Calvi men and guns from VICTORY were landed under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, who lost the sight of his right eye from a wound during the action.
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 The History of the Fifth Vanguard of the Royal Navy - 1778 - 1821 (Nelson's Vanguard)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Link to Letters and Dispatches of Lord Nelson from abroad HMS Vanguard during the Mediterranean Campaign
When this difference, and another with Russia, were settled, the ship was paid off on 14th September, 1791, after an uneventful commission.
She was commissioned again on 28th February 1793, hostilities having broken out with France.
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 Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Navy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The AUDACIOUS, Captain Could, pouring a heavy fire into the GUERRIER and the CONQUERANT, fixed herself on the larboard bow of the latter, and when that ship struck, passed on to the PEUPLE SOUVERAIN.
While these advanced ships doubled the French line, the VANGUARD was the first that anchored on the outer side of the enemy, within half pistol-shot of their third ship, the SPARTIATE.
Nelson had six colours flying in different parts of his rigging, lest they should be shot away; that they should be struck, no British admiral considers as a possibility.
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 British Royal Navy During the Napoleonic Wars.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Only bigger ships could be safely used in the main line of battle, leading to term line of battle-ship, for the most powerful ships of the day.
It carried 7 anchors of various sizes for different uses.
(approximately $ 36 million in today's money !) HMS "Victory" was 67m long and 16m wide and 2,162 tons heavy.
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 William Clarkson Stanfield, Trafalgar
The French and Spanish losses were much higher with both the French Rear Admiral Charles Magon and the Spanish Admiral Don Frederico Gravina killed, plus some 2,600 officers and men killed or wounded and a total of 4,400 captured.
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Alhough this medal has the bar Suakin 1885 research has shown that the recipient is entitled to a no bar medal.
Kaiser-I-Hind, George VI issue, 2nd Class, in silver, complete with silver brooch buckle, In “HM Mint Calcutta” case of issue.
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 Battle of Trafalgar: Nelson's Navy
Had it not been for false information, upon which Nelson had acted reluctantly, and in opposition to his own judgment, he would have been off Port Royal just as they were leaving; it, and the battle would have been fought on the spot where Rodney defeated De Grasse.
That they were flying back to Europe he believed, and for Europe he steered in pursuit on the 13th, having disembarked the troops at Antigua, and taking with him the SPARTIATE, seventy-four; the only addition to the squadron with which he was pursuing so superior a force.
Five days afterwards the AMAZON brought intelligence that she had spoke a schooner who had seen them on the evening of the 15th, steering to the north; and by computation, eighty-seven leagues off.
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 HMS Spartiate (1793)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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