HMS Implacable (1805)
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HMS Implacable was a third-rate, 74-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the French Navy's Téméraire-class ship of the line Duguay-Trouin, launched in 1800.
Implacable in 1894, by W. J. Sutton
The taking of the Duguay-Trouin at the 1805 Battle of Cape Ortegal, painted by Charles Dixon
The gallant encounter between HMS Boadicea and two French warships Le Duquay-Trouin and Guerriére on 31 August 1803. William John Huggins
Russian ship Vsevolod being burnt while Implacable and Centaur watch near Rogerwick bay on 26 August 1808
Cutty Sark
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Cutty Sark is a British clipper ship. Built on the River Leven, Dumbarton, Scotland in 1869 for the Jock Willis Shipping Line, she was one of the last tea clippers to be built and one of the fastest,
HMS Implacable (1805)
…Unicorn, Dundee. Public reaction to the "criminal action against the maritime history of Britain" forced the government to support the preservation of Cutty Sark. In the 1999 Patrick O'Brian novel Blue at the Mizzen, set soon after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, newly promoted Adm. John "Lucky Jack…
Cutty Sark on display at Greenwich
Cutty Sark photographed at sea by Captain Woodget using a camera balanced on two of the ship's boats lashed together
Fine lines of the bow
The ship's figurehead shows Cutty-sark, the nickname of the witch Nannie Dee who chases a drunk farmer, Tam o' Shanter, snatching his horse's tail before he escapes by crossing water.