Swanbourne & The Trafalgar Connection - Temeraire Traditional Cache
mazlow: Conservation walk withdrawn, owing to unruly persons taking liberties (not Cachers, I'm sure). I will re-route nearby.
Swanbourne & The Trafalgar Connection - Temeraire
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This is a Conservation Walk, by permission of the Swanbourne Estate. There will be no need to stray off the path, and please keep dogs under control. This is wired on now, please don't undo the wire, but open in place. Thank you.
HMS TEMERAIRE was a 98 gun 2nd rate Ship of the Line, launched from Chatham in 1798. She served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, mostly on blockades or convoy escort duties. She fought only one fleet action – the Battle of Trafalgar. She was captained by Admiral Sir Eliab Harvey, GCB (1758 – 1830) who was an eccentric and hot-tempered officer, as distinguished for his gambling and duelling as for his military record. He was also MP for Essex from 1802 to 1812. When the Battle of Trafalgar was joined, Harvey's Temeraire was the second ship in Nelson's Weather division and was a faster and more agile ship than HMS Victory. As a result, Temeraire began to pull ahead, and Harvey was reprimanded by Nelson, who hailed "I will thank you Captain Harvey, to keep your proper station which is astern of the Victory". During the battle Temeraire came to the rescue of the beleaguered Victory, and fought and captured two French ships, winning public renown in Britain. After further engagements, the ship returned to Britain in 1813 for repairs, but was laid up. She was converted to a prison ship in the River Tamar until 1819. Further service brought her to Sheerness as a receiving ship, then a victualling depot, and finally a guard ship. The Admiralty ordered her to be sold in 1838, and she was towed to Rotherhithe to be broken up. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk gives fascinating details of Turner’s wonderful painting.
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