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1794. The French Navy engages British Admiral Howe's Channel Fleet. The 74 gunner Marseillois, renamed Vengeur du Peuple (Avenger of the People) by the French Revolutionary Government. Attacked by British HMS Brunswick, both vessels engaged in a furious combat. The Brunswick lost her foremast and the topgallants of her main and mizzen masts, and her commander was mortally wounded. However, her cannon fire holed the Vengeur through the bottom. In the picture, the Venguer fatally lists to starboard. Behind her, from left to right, are the Brunswik, heavily damaged, HMS Queen Charlotte and HMS Culloden (the topgallant of her foremast shot down), that rescued the French sailors. Based on an lithography of the time by Auguste Mayer.
Image size
2048x1286px 1.63 MB
Make
Nokia
Model
5530
Shutter Speed
1/20 second
Aperture
F/2.8
Focal Length
4 mm
ISO Speed
316
Date Taken
Feb 19, 2014, 3:31:25 PM
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Check your copy of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". He has Nemo bring the "Nautilus" to the wreck of the "Vengeur du Peuple" and give a very stirring account of the famous sea battle. Immediately afterwards his submarine is fired on by another warship (we later figure out it was a British warship). He refuses to have the attacking ship mix it's wreckage with the "Avenger", and leads it away (it is following him and firing). Then when far enough away, he turns the Nautilus around, and rams and sinks the attacking warship (much to the dismay of Professor Aronnax, Ned Land, and Conseil, who witness the sinking).