"To the Immortal Memory" Topic

Victory
Royal Sovereign
Britannia
Temeraire
Prince
Neptune
Dreadnought
Tonnant
Thunderer
Swiftsure
Spartiate
Revenge
Orion
Minotaur
Mars
Leviathan
Defiance
Defence
Conqueror
Colossus
Bellerophon
Belleisle
Ajax
Achille
Polyphemus
Agamemnon
Africa
Naiad
Sirius
Phoebe
Euryalus
Pickle
Entreprenante

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If you don't understand read a history book.

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To the Immortal Memory.

Spain:
Dionisio Alcalá Galiano
Cosme de Churruca
Francisco Alcedo y Bustamante

France:
Charles-René Magon

plus:
3240 dead
2538 injured (many of them would die days after the battle)

England:
Horatio Nelson
449 dead
1241 injured

We honor people no to ships

ModelJShip:

And for those whose brains are a little slow today: link

Jim

@ ModelJShip Britain surely?

The naval joke about Nelson: he came back in better spirits than the went.

His body was preserved in a casket of rum for the journey home.

I love the names of the old ships! Stirring stuff indeed, though the point about the men involved is well taken.

"We honor people no to ships"
Having spent a few years on one I'd say we can do both.

Hear hear Murvihill. Happy Trafalgar Day!

@Murvihill – which navy did you serve with?

The ship names are indeed fabulous and so to are their 'other' names – "The Billy Ruffian" and the 'Eggs and Bacon' are the only two I know – I'm sure there are more.

We honor people no to ships

A good example of the type of meaningless European cant those Wooden ships and Iron men were fighting against!

"Don't give up the Ship!"

Best laugh today…somehow I never heard that one

"he came back in better spirits than he went"………

probably a traditional gag, but new to to me.

Did Hardy actually kiss him? Or was it Kismet? All seems a bit unlikely………

Good joke – but brandy not rum (despite the traditions of rum on board ship) and a cask not a casket – transferred to a casket in December for burial in January.

To the Immortal Memory

Agree it was brandy but I read when they got back to England they found that the sailors had drained off the brandy and drunk it!

And the despatch vessel that carried his embalmed body was HMS Pickle – I kid you not!

So that the entire leadership of the Royal Navy are not all completely trousered on the same night, traditionally the Senior Rates Messes celebrate 'Pickle Night' the evening before the Officers celebrate 'Trafalgar Night'…

Sorry, for 'Completely trousered', read 'Tired and Confused' for the Senior Rates, and 'High Spirited' for the Officers….

I think it was Earl St Vincent who said: "It is men, not ships, that win battles."

A sentiment with which Nelson himself would probably have agreed, IMHO.

"TRAFALGAR STORY – THE IMMORTAL MEMORY
On This Day in 1805…….
Our club the 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regt of Foot was awarded the contract by the Royal Navy's consultants to recruit and co-ordinate 75 marines to take part in the spectacular sea battle featuring six world famous "Tall Ships" including the Grand Turk (Hornblower) as part of the Royal Navy's Celebration of the 200th Anniversary of Trafalgar. We invited members of the 41st (Welch) Regt, the 50th(West Kent) and the French 9ieme Legere to assist. At the large safety and security meeting before the event involving over 20 main contractors the senior Royal Navy officer present instructed us to show no flags, never refer to "the French" and to always use Nato nomenclature of Blue and Red forces. At this point our club Vice-President Jeffrey Jeremiah brought the whole meeting to a crashing halt for 5 minutes of hysterical laughter when he jumped up and shouted at the Commodore "Well who do you think shot Nelson then The Bloody Fairies? All the Navy officers stood bright red, poker-faced while everyone else in the room howled till they wept. When the laughter finally finished, a senior officer, choking, said through very tight lips "It wasn't the Navy, this came from very high up…" "

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H.M.S. Victory. Rolling broadside

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"Britain expects that every man will do his duty…."

"arthur1815

I think it was Earl St Vincent who said: "It is men, not ships, that win battles."

A sentiment with which Nelson himself would probably have agreed, IMHO."

Completely agree!

And the despatch vessel that carried his embalmed body was HMS Pickle – I kid you not!

Sorry but that was not the case. HMS Pickle was indeed a despatch vessel and carried the news of Trafalgar back to Britain, arriving Falmouth on 4th November. But, Nelson's body remained on board Victory, not arriving back in Britain until 4th December.

Since 1974 it has become the custom for the Senior Rates messes of the Royal navy to celebrate "Pickle Night" a week after the wardrooms celebrate Trafalgar Night.

"@Murvihill – which navy did you serve with?"

US. Three years on USS Luce DDG-38 and one on USS Lasalle AGF-3. Both are razor blades now, but it doesn't seem like that long ago.

Wives and Sweethearts, and may they never meet!

My favourite Nelson quote: "All men are bachelors past Gibraltar"

What a load of Anchor Faced TMP threaders.

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