HMS Raisonnable (1768)
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HMS Raisonnable was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, named after the ship of the same name captured from the French in 1758. She was built at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 10 De
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Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay by Dominic Serres. Raisonnable seen here in the far left background firing into Hunter on the Penobscot Expedition
An illustration showing Raisonnable attacking Saint-Paul on 21 September 1809. In the background, Sirius rakes Caroline.
Vice-Admiral of the White Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronte was a British Royal Navy officer whose leadership, grasp of strategy, and unconventional tactics led to multiple decis
HMS Raisonnable (1768)
…She was built at Chatham Dockyard, launched on 10 December 1768 and commissioned on 17 November 1770 under the command of Captain Maurice Suckling, Horatio Nelson's uncle. Raisonnable was built to the same lines as HMS Ardent, and was one of the seven ships forming the Ardent class of 1761. Raisonnable was the…
Portrait of Horatio Nelson by Lemuel Francis Abbott, 1799
The site of the rectory in Burnham Thorpe in Norfolk, where Nelson was born in 1758
Captain Horatio Nelson, painted by John Francis Rigaud in 1781, with Fort San Juan—the scene of his most notable achievement till then—in the background.
Nelson's wife, Lady Nelson, formerly Frances "Fanny" Nisbet of the island of Nevis, West Indies.