HMS Swiftsure (1787)
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HMS Swiftsure was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She spent most of her career serving with the British, except for a brief period when she was captured by the French d
Indivisible and Dix-Août capture Swiftsure
Swiftsure becalmed near Algeciras, as sketched by one of her midshipmen, John Theophilus Lee in 1798
Orient explodes at the Nile. HMS Swiftsure is in the centre of the picture, sails billowing in the blast, and riding the wave caused by the force of the explosion.
A scene during the Battle of the Nile, by the ships's chaplain Cooper Willyams
French ship Cassard (1795)
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Cassard was a 74-gun Téméraire-class ship of the line built for the French Navy during the 1790s. Completed in 1795, she played a minor role in the Napoleonic Wars. She was renamed Dix-Août in 1798, i
Ship model of Brave