HMS Tonnant
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HMS Tonnant was an 80-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She had previously been Tonnant of the French Navy and the lead ship of the Tonnant class. The British captured her in August 1793 during
Tonnant at the Battle of the Nile, by Louis Le Breton
Death of Du Petit-Thouars, by Auguste Mayer
In action at Trafalgar, HMS Tonnant engaging the Spanish '74' Monarca
Tonnant accepting Monarca's surrender, painted by Nicholas Pocock
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