To: marktwain
There's something else odd about this story... HMS Swiftsure was, I believe, a Royal Navy vessel that had been captured by the French several years before Trafalgar. It was in the battle, firing *at* Nelson's ships.
Perhaps the Brits launched another warship and gave it that name in the interim, or something. I'm sure that someone here knows.
10 posted on
03/01/2017 8:21:38 AM PST by
Charles Martel
(Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: Charles Martel
Yep. Two different Swiftsures.
12 posted on
03/01/2017 8:29:52 AM PST by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: Charles Martel
According to Wikipedia, the French returned her to the British as part of some diplomatic arrangement prior to 1805. She was re-christened “Irresistible” and fought at Trafalagar under the name.
14 posted on
03/01/2017 8:36:17 AM PST by
BenLurkin
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To: Charles Martel
Perhaps the Brits launched another warship and gave it that name in the interim, or something. I'm sure that someone here knows. They did. The HMS Swiftsure that was part of Nelson's fleet was commissioned in 1804. An earlier HMS Swiftsure was commissioned in 1787, was captured by the French in 1801, and fought with the French at Trafalgar where she was recaptured, recommissioned, and renamed HMS Irresistible.
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