Trafalgar, 1805: British Fleet

v.2.1 July 19, 2006

Ravi Rikhye

Sources: [other sources are given on individual ship pages or below quotes and images]

• www.genuki.org.uk/mindex.html

• http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/static/pages/3534.html

• http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/ships/html/sh_096800_hmsvictory.htm

Trafalgar [21st October 1805] is celebrated as the greatest battle ever fought by the Royal Navy. Nelson's victory established British naval supremacy on the World Ocean for a hundred years, until the German Fleet rose to challenge the British in the first and second decades of the 10th Century.

	74
AFRICA	64
AGAMEMNON	64
AJAX	74
BELLEISLE	74
BELLERPHON	74
BRITANNIA	100
COLOSSUS	74
CONQUEROR	74
DEFENCE	74
DEFIANCE	74
	98
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EURYALUS	36
LEVIATHAN	74
MARS	74
MINOTAUR	74
NAIAD	38
NEPTUNE	98
ORION	74
PHOEBE	36
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POLYPHEMUS	64
PRINCE	98
REVENGE	74
ROYAL SOVEREIGN	100
SIRIUS	36
SPARTIATE	74
SWIFTSURE	74
TEMERAIRE	98
THUNDERER	74
TONNANT	80
	100

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