Bloody fools, used explosives to sink her as if she was a iron ship, the explosion smashed her keel, garboard strakes and spirketting timbers sending the iron ballast to the seabed, leaving the wreck floating on the surface. serves them right the history vandals.HMS Implacable on her way to being Scuttled. She was a third rate ‘74.View attachment 482710
She shouldn’t have been scuttled in the first place! Should have been preserved!!!Bloody fools, used explosives to sink her as if she was a iron ship, the explosion smashed her keel, garboard strakes and spirketting timbers sending the iron ballast to the seabed, leaving the wreck floating on the surface. serves them right the history vandals.
well, she was a French ship, built in France and made a Prize and brought into RN service, this country was bankrupt after WW2 and they were having trouble raising enough funds for HMS Victory, so when it was discovered that a Nelson era ship had survived that long, the Navy and HM Government thought it best to get rid before they were pressurized by the public to save her, sad but there just wasn't the money around at the time.She shouldn’t have been scuttled in the first place! Should have been preserved!!!![]()
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The first picture gives the extent of the tumblehome of the hull.
Great work, thank you . The model is on hold until the winter, but these are a great help.
Shame really, we could have flaunted it, like we don’t let them forget about Cresy, Agincourt, Waterloo, the Nile , Pennisular War etc.....and the Eagles don’t forget the Eagles!well, she was a French ship, built in France and made a Prize and brought into RN service, this country was bankrupt after WW2 and they were having trouble raising enough funds for HMS Victory, so when it was discovered that a Nelson era ship had survived that long, the Navy and HM Government thought it best to get rid before they were pressurized by the public to save her, sad but there just wasn't the money around at the time.
HMS Wellesley. Third rate, 74 guns. Commissioned in 1815. Sunk (as TS Cornwall) by the Luftwaffe on the 23rd September 1940. The last British ship of the line to be lost to enemy action.
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shame she was sunk in shallow water, she'd make a great Dive. She was probably broken up after as she would have been a Navigation Hazzard.