Guillaume Tell — French 80-gun Ship
Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A fleet at anchor in a bay. Not a named portrait of the ship.
Overview
Guillaume Tell (80) is already on the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview as one of Brueys’s three 80-gun ships with Franklin and Tonnant, under Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral.1
Service
This note covers that escape only. Later capture and later British names stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.
Villeneuve cut his cables at dawn on 2 August 1798 and escaped with three other ships — the only French ships of the line to survive. The battle note names the four that got away as Guillaume Tell, Généreux, and the frigates Diane and Justice.2
Sources
- @knight2005pursuit — pp. 281–320
- @white2005nelson
- @adkin2005trafalgar
- Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
Related
Navigation
Same Battle
- Franklin — French 80-gun Ship
- Tonnant — French 80-gun Ship
- Spartiate — French Ship of the Line
- L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship
- Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral
- Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview
- Aboukir Bay — Egypt
Cross-Domain
Footnotes
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80 guns; with Franklin and Tonnant; Villeneuve: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. ↩
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Cut cables at dawn 2 August; escaped with three others; Généreux, Diane, Justice: same battle note. Do not add a later British name or a later capture until a page is licensed. ↩