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The Battle of Trafalgar was fought by sailing vessels and therefore cannot be understood in substance except as the manoeuvring of sailing vessels according to the principles of sailing. [ citation needed ] Without understanding the importance of wind and weather, especially wind direction, the modern can make no sense of the manoeuvring.
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
HMS Royal Sovereign was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, [1] which served as the flagship of Admiral Collingwood at the Battle of Trafalgar. She was the third of seven Royal Navy ships to bear the name. She was launched at Plymouth Dockyard on 11 September 1786, [1] at a
A number of artists visited the newly returned Trafalgar ships, including John Livesay, drawing master at the Royal Naval Academy. Livesay produced several sketches of battle-damaged ships, sending them to Nicholas Pocock to be used for Pocock's large paintings of the battle. Temeraire was one of the ships he sketched. [55]
At the Battle of Trafalgar, on 21 October 1805, Redoutable was commanded by Captain Jean Jacques Etienne Lucas, [22] with Lieutenant Jean Dupotet as first officer. [23] [a] Redoutable was the third ship behind the flagship Bucentaure in the French line, coming behind Esprit-Tranquille Maistral's Neptune and José Quevedo's San Leandro.
Neptune formed part of the weather column in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October, and was the third ship from the lead, situated between her sister HMS Temeraire, and the 74-gun HMS Leviathan. [8] Fremantle had been promised a position second to Nelson aboard HMS Victory, and by 10 o'clock was sailing fast enough to threaten to overtake her.
HMS Achille [Note 1] was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was built by Cleverley Bros., a private shipyard at Gravesend, and launched on 16 April 1798. Her design was based on the lines of the captured French ship Pompée. [1] She was the fourth Royal Navy ship to be named after the Greek hero Achilles in the French ...
Captain John Cooke, Bellerophon ' s captain at the Battle of Trafalgar, painted c. 1797–1803 by Lemuel Francis Abbott. A particularly severe outbreak of malaria struck the ship in early February 1804; 212 members of Bellerophon ' s crew fell ill. 17 died aboard the ship, while 100 had to be transferred to a shore-based hospital, where a ...