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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

HMS Swiftsure (1804)


From Wikipedia.

Ten ships have served in the British Royal Navy with the name Swiftsure, all the way from a galleon in 1573 to a submarine in the 1990s.

Miller Worsley served on the sixth HMS Swiftsure at the Battle of Trafalgar.  His ship was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line launched 23 July 1804, 173 feet long, 47.6 beam.  It fought at the Battle of Trafalgar.  One of the French ships it fought was the former HMS Swiftsure (1787).  (See next post for information on this ship.)

It became a receiving ship in 1819 and was broken up in 1845.

--Brock-Perry

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