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HMS Vanguard — Nelson's Nile Flagship

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HMS Vanguard — Nelson’s Nile Flagship

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A British 74-gun two-decker. Not a named portrait of the ship.

Overview

Vanguard is already on the Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview as Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview’s flagship on 1 August 1798, a British 74 under Captain Berry.1

Specifications

FeatureDetail
Guns74 (Nile note)
TypeBritish two-decker
This vaultNile flagship, 1 August 1798

Same rate as HMS Goliath — 74-gun Third Rate. Not a First Rate Ship of the Line — Class Overview.

Service

This note covers 1 August 1798 as flagship, plus one posting already on the Hardy note. Launch, earlier commissions, Mutine, the later move to Foudroyant, and HMS St George — 98-gun Second Rate stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Berry is now a filled person note for this day only.

Hardy Thomas Masterman — Captain HMS Victory was posted into Vanguard as flag captain on 2 October 1798. That is the next fact this vault already has on this ship. The night of 1 August is the Nile frame: langridge around 8:30pm, L’Orient — French 120-gun Flagship on fire around 9pm and exploding around 10pm in Aboukir Bay — Egypt.2

Sources

Same Battle

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Footnotes

  1. Flagship, British 74, Berry: Battle of the Nile 1798 — Overview. ↩

  2. Hardy posted 2 October 1798: Hardy note. Night times and L’Orient: Nile overview. Do not add a launch year until a page is licensed. ↩

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