HMS Conqueror — Overview

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 74 under sail. Not a named-ship portrait and not a likeness.

Overview

The surrender is already on Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral and Bucentaure — Overview. Villeneuve, reportedly the only senior officer aboard Bucentaure not wounded, surrendered to a boarding party from HMS Conqueror.¹

The Surrender

This note covers that boarding-party surrender only. Bucentaure — Overview names the ship as a 74-gun third-rate and names Capt. James Atcherley as leading the party. A gun-count beyond that rate, and any officer the filled notes do not name, stay off.

The raking of Bucentaure by HMS Victory — Overview stays on those notes. The post-battle loss of the prize is on Storm After Trafalgar — 24–29 October 1805.²

Sources

• @adkin2005trafalgar
• @knight2005pursuit
• @white2005nelson
• Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral
• Bucentaure — Overview

Related

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Same Subject

• Bucentaure — Overview
• Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral
• Battle of Trafalgar 1805 — Overview
• HMS Victory — Overview
• James Atcherley — Took Villeneuve’s Sword

Cross-Domain

• Storm After Trafalgar — 24–29 October 1805
• Age of Sail — Era Overview
• Age of Sail — Chronological Timeline

Footnotes

1. Surrendered to a boarding party from HMS Conqueror: Villeneuve Pierre-Charles — French Admiral and Bucentaure — Overview. ↩

2. 74-gun third-rate; boarding party under Capt. James Atcherley: Bucentaure — Overview. Sword-taking stays on James Atcherley — Took Villeneuve’s Sword. Do not invent a gun-count. Do not name an officer the filled notes do not name. ↩