&sq=&lang=&file=File:Capture_swifsure.jpg) Indivisible and Dix-Août capture Swiftsure
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| History | |
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&sq=&lang=&file=File:White_Ensign_of_Great_Britain_(1707%E2%80%931800).svg){kind=small} Great Britain | |
| Name | HMS Swiftsure |
| Ordered | 19 June 1782 |
| Builder | John & William Wells, Deptford |
| Laid down | May 1784 |
| Launched | 4 April 1787 |
| Honours and awards |
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| Captured | 24 June 1801, by French Navy |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Ensign_of_France.svg){kind=small} France | |
| Name | Swiftsure |
| Acquired | 24 June 1801 |
| Honours and awards | Participated in Battle of Trafalgar |
| Captured | 21 October 1805, by Royal Navy |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg){kind=small} United Kingdom | |
| Name | HMS Irresistible |
| Acquired | 21 October 1805 |
| Fate | Broken up, January 1816 |
| General characteristics [2] | |
| Class and type | Elizabeth class ship of the line |
| Tons burthen | 1612 (bm) |
| Length | 168 ft 6 in (51.36 m) (gundeck) |
| Beam | 46 ft (14 m) |
| Depth of hold | 19 ft 9 in (6.02 m) |
| Propulsion | Sails |
| Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
| Armament | |
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 during the Napoleonic Wars in the action of 24 June 1801. She fought in several of the most famous engagements of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, fighting for the British at the Battle of the Nile, and the French at the Battle of Trafalgar.[3]
- ^ "No. 21077". The London Gazette. 15 March 1850. pp. 791–792.
- ^ Lavery, Ships of the Line vol.1, p179.
- ^ Winfield. British Warships. Chap. 3, p. 76.