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Showing posts with label HMS Swiftsure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HMS Swiftsure. Show all posts
Thursday, March 1, 2018
HMS Swiftsure (1785): From British, to French and Back to British
From Wikipedia.
74-gun third rate ship of the line, 168 feet long, 46 foot beam.
Served in both the Royal Navy then french navy after her capture in 1801.
As a British ship fought in several famous engagements during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars including the battle of the Nile with the British and the Battle of Trafalgar with the French. It was recaptured by the British at this battle.
Though badly damaged, it was repaired, taken back into service, laid up, recommissioned in 1808, renamed HMS Irresistible and became a prison ship at Chatham until 1816 when it was broken up. It is likely that American prisoners were held on her.
--Brock-Perry
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
Miller Worsley, Royal Navy-- Part 1: At Trafalgar, Transferred to Canada
From Wikipedia.
8 July 1791 to 2 May 1835
Volunteered for the Royal Navy in 1803, became midshipman in 1805. He was at the Battle of Trafalgar serving aboard the HMS Swiftsure (See next post)
Drafted to serve in Canada along with Robert Heriot Barclay (Battle of Lake Erie) and Daniel Pring. Evidently many British officers, both Army and Navy, regarded service in Canada as not too promising for their careers. Much more action and advancement opportunity against the French in Europe.
Promoted to lieutenant 12 July 1813 and in 1814 was 1st lt. on frigate HMS Princess Charlotte on Lake Ontario and participated in the Raid on Fort Oswego.
--Brock-Perry
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