Captain, HMS

Vessel summary

Name: Captain, HMS
Class: Third Rate
Type: ship of the line
Builder: Batson's Yard; Limehouse Dockyard
When launched (Date built): 1787
Place built: United Kingdom, England

Description

74-gun; flagship of Lord Horatio Nelson 1796; served during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars before being placed in harbor service 1799; burned and broken up 1813

Related organizations

Batson's Yard

Builder

Limehouse Dockyard

Builder

Related objects

Portraits of H.M. Ships Agamemnon, Captain, Vanguard, Elephant, & Victory.

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The "Captain," Commodore Horatio Nelson, 74 Guns, Boarding the Spanish Flagships "San Jose" 112 guns and the "San Nicholas" 80 guns, off St. Vincent, February 14, 1797.

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