Indomptable

Indomptable

Indomptable (middle)

Ship data flag  France Ship type Full ship class Tonnant class home port Brest Launch December 20, 1790 Whereabouts Run aground in October 1805

Ship dimensions and crew length 59.3 m ( Lüa ) width 15.3 m Draft Max. 7.8 m displacement 1800  t   crew 780 men

Armament 30 × 36 pounder long gun 32 × 24 pounder long gun 18 × 12 pounder long gun 4 × vessel howitzers

The Indomptable was a French ship of the line belonging to the tonnant class . It had 80 cannons and was launched on December 20, 1790.

The ship took part in the naval battle of the 13th Prairial and the Battle of Trafalgar . The ship ran aground off Rota two days later in a storm on the night of October 23-24, 1805 . The sinking claimed more than 1,000 lives. Among them were about 500 castaways from the Bucentaure . Only about 180 sailors survived.

It was not until 1936 that a ship named L'Indomptable was returned to service for the French Navy .

literature

• Tim Clayton, Craig Phil: Trafalgar: The Men, the Battle, the Storm. Hodder & Staughton, 2004, ISBN 0-340-83027-1 , preview on Google Books

Footnotes

1. ↑ http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?215904
2. ↑ http://php4-pro.online.net/www.histofig.com/naval/n_scenarios_01.php ( Memento from July 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ^{a b} Sam Willis: In the Hour of Victory: The Royal Navy at War in the Age of Nelson, Atlantic Books, 2013, preview on Google Books