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    Japanese I-400 Submarine Aircraft Carrier (Real) Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Seaview (Fictional) Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Nautilus (Fictional) Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The first military submarine was the "Turtle" in 1776. During the American Revolutionary War, Turtle (operated by Sgt. Ezra Lee, Continental Army) tried and failed to sink a British warship, HMS Eagle (flagship of the blockaders) in New York harbor on September 7, 1776. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Clan Activity Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IZJwcolKNh-JqKiX_kVcwW-u0nRLWew2dorRRwtl7WU/edit#gid=9 Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Nelson on top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square in London A broadside from the 1850s recounts the story  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    'The Nelson Touch': Restoring HMS 'Victory', 1805-1925  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Arrival of the Victory with the body of Lord Nelson on board.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    News of Victory at Trafalgar Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    As more and more British ships entered the battle, the ships of the allied centre and rear were gradually overwhelmed. The allied van, after long remaining quiescent, made a futile demonstration and then sailed away. The British took 22 vessels of the Franco-Spanish fleet and lost none. Of all the ships at Trafalgar, Redoutable sustained the highest casualties with 478 killed and 81 wounded. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The aftermath of the battle Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The situation at ~ 5pm. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    This painting combines events from several times during the battle. Nelson's famous signal ("England expects that every man will do his duty") flies from the Victory (11:50); the top-mizzenmast falls (13:00); the Achille is on fire in the background (late afternoon) and the Redoutable sinks in the foreground (following day). The battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the starboard mizzen shrouds of HMS Victory. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    HMS Victory Spanish Ship Santisima Trinidad and HMS Victory Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    In the Leeward Squadron Belleisle was stricken into a wreck by Achille and the French Neptune. She was the second ship in the British lee column, and as such was engaged by eight Franco-Spanish ships. She was soon completely dismasted (the only British ship which suffered that fate), unable to manœuvre and largely unable to fight, as her sails blinded her batteries, but kept flying her flag for 45 minutes until the British ships behind her in the column came to her rescue. With 33 dead and 93 wounded, she was then towed to Gibraltar after the battle. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Lord Nelson being shot on the quarterdeck of HMS Victory. The death of Lord Nelson in the cockpit of HMS Victory.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Redoutable at the battle of Trafalgar, between the Temeraire (on the left) and the Victory on the right. Already ravaged by incoming shot from the combined French and Spanish fleets as she approached the enemy line, HMS Victory found herself under intense attack from the French 3rd Rate 74-gun Redoutable. The two ships became entangled, grappling irons went across and the most terrible artillery battle commenced. Now the British three-decker, the 98-gun Temeraire appeared outboard of the Redoutable and began pouring further shot into her, the little French ship dwarfed by two mighty British vessels. But still she fought on, refusing to strike her colours. Of all the ships at Trafalgar, Redoutable sustained the highest casualties with 478 killed and 81 wounded. Depicted from left to right are HMS Temeraire, Redoutable and HMS Victory. HMS Temeraire fighting the French flagship Bucentaure (completely dismasted) at Trafalgar. Bucentaure is also being fired into by HMS Victory (behind her).  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The Battle of Trafalgar continued ... H.M.S. 'Victory' breaking the enemy line and raking the stern of the French flagship.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The H.M.S. Royal Sovereign, first through the line.  Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Nelson wore that day as usual, his Admiral’s frock-coat bearing on the left breast 4 stars of the different orders with which he was invested. Ornaments which rendered him so conspicuous a mark for the enemy were beheld with ominous apprehension by his officers; it could not be doubted but that his life would be particularly aimed at. They entreated him to change his dress, or cover his stars, but Nelson replied : ‘In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them’ During the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, it was shortly before Nelson was mortally wounded that a shot struck the fore brace bits on the quarter deck and passed between Nelson and Hardy. Both stopped and looked anxiously at each other then Nelson smiled and said, This is too warm work, Hardy, to last long. This illustration represents the point at which he said those words during the battle. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    The beginning of the action. In the right foreground is the French ship ‘Bucentaure’ in starboard-bow view, with her mizzen mast and main topgallant mast shot away. In port-bow view and passing astern of her is the British ‘Neptune’, delivering raking fire. Astern of her and only half in the picture is the ‘Leviathan’ port-bow view. In the left foreground the ‘Santissima Trinidad’ is shown in port-bow view. Her main and mizzen masts and fore-topgallant mast are being shot away by the ‘Victory’, which is passing astern of her as she breaks the line. Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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    Nelson’s Column Nelson was outnumbered and outgunned, the enemy totalling nearly 30,000 men and 2,568 guns to his 17,000 men and 2,148 guns. The Franco-Spanish fleet also had six more ships of the line, and so could more readily combine their fire. There was no way for some of Nelson's ships to avoid being "doubled on" or even "trebled on". As the two fleets drew closer, anxiety began to build among officers and sailors; one British sailor described the approach thus: "During this momentous preparation, the human mind had ample time for meditation, for it was evident that the fate of England rested on this battle". The battle progressed largely according to Nelson's plan. At 11:45, Nelson sent the flag signal, "England expects that every man will do his duty". Website: navygamingamerica.enjin.com
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