French ship Swiftsure (1801)
- French ship Swiftsure (1801)
HMS "Swiftsure", she was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built at Deptford and launched on 4 April 1787.
She fought at the Battle of the Nile in 1798, and was captured by the French ships "Indivisible" and "Dix-Août" in the Mediterranean on the 24 June 1801.Fact|date=September 2008
She fought on the French side at the Battle of Trafalgar, where she was re-captured by the British, on 21 October 1805.Fact|date=September 2008
She was recommissioned in the Royal Navy as HMS "Irresistible",
She was scrapped in Chatham in 1816.
Citations and notes
References
*Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-85177-252-8.
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