Trafalgar survivor

KIWI · Trafalgar survivor

Not really a modelling question , but is it true that there was another British warship from the Battle of Trfalgar other than HMS Victory that survived into the second half of the last century ?

walrus

i seem to recall a documentary on tv Kiwi about a Trafalgar vessel

not certain if she survived that long however.

all a bit hazy so sorry not to be more helpful

KIWI

Somewhere in the last two or three months I was told or read that a Bristish warship from that era survived till maybe the 1950's as some sort of traning vessel . By that time it might no longer have been sea going , might even have only been a hulk .

walrus

Hi Kiwi

she was HMS Implacable finally scrapped in 1949

http://ahoy.tk-jk.net/Letters/ColinFrancisCreswell1894-.html

originally a captured French ship
hth

Ratch

KIWI

Thanks for that , it seems incredible that a ship like this should have been destroyed such a short time ago .

T16S

I seem to remember seeing a film clip of her being sunk- and was stunned that at that time such a survivor was so little valued. Probably the only French wooden fleet warship of the period to have survived. A total sacrilege and if she had survived a bit longer would now be fully restored or at least given back to the French for restoration.
cheers Stuart

Graham Hall

You can always pop up to Hartlepool and see HMS Trincomalee, built in 1817, in Bombay to the plans of the French Leda Class Frigates.

Come next year and see loads of other Tall Ships as well as Hartlepool is staging the Tall Ships race in August 2010.

Right, plug for the town over!!!!!!!