Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a...
A fortnight later the small French force was picked up by a British squadron in the latitude of Cape Finisterre. After a lengthy chase, Admiral Dumanoir ran out his few remaining guns, but within a few hours the Duguay^ lay helpless in the Atlantic wallow, waiting with her three sisters...
New Duties. From that time on for more than a century, Britannia ruled the waves, and among her stoutest ships was the Duguay. Refitted and rechristened the Implacable, she sailed out in 1808 to fight triumphantly with the Swedes against the Russians, the French and the Danes in the Baltic...
In 1855, the aging Implacable was placed in honorable retirement as a training ship. One by one, as young future admirals learned to walk her sturdy oak planks and climb her graceful rigging, her old comrades in arms faded away. By the end of World War II, during which she...
Last Post. Last week, flying the ensigns of both France and Britain, H.M.S. Implacable put out to sea for the last time. Escorted by the British destroyer Finisterre and the sloop Redpole, and loaded with 150 tons of carefully secured ballast, she was towed out of Portsmouth Harbor, past the...