HMS Implacable (1805)
The Russian ship Vsevolod burning, after the action with the Implacable and Centaur, destroyed in the presence of the Russian Fleet near Rogerwick bay on 26 August 1808.
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 France
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| Name: | Duguay-Trouin |
| Laid down: | 1797 |
| Launched: | Rochefort, 24 March 1800 |
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| Captured: | 3 November 1805, by Royal Navy |
 United Kingdom
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| Name: | HMS Implacable |
| Acquired: | 3 November 1805 |
| Renamed: | Foudroyant in 1943 |
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| Fate: | Scuttled 2 December 1949 |
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| Class and type: | Téméraire-class ship of the line |
| Tonnage: | 3,223 tons (as measured from 1882) |
| Tons burthen: | 1,896 22⁄94 bm |
| Length: | 181 ft 6 in (55.3 m) |
| Beam: | 48 ft 11 in (14.9 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 20 ft 7 in (6.3 m) |
| Sail plan: | Full-rigged ship |
| Complement: | 640 officers and crew |
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HMS Implacable was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was originally the French Navy's Téméraire-class ship of the line Duguay-Trouin, launched in 1800.
She survived the Battle of Trafalgar only for the British to capture her at the subsequent Battle of Cape Ortegal. In British service she participated in the capture of the Imperial Russian Navy 74-gun ship of the line Vsevolod (Russian: Всеволод) in the Baltic in 1808 during the Anglo-Russian War. Later, Implacable became a training ship. Eventually, she became the second oldest ship in the Royal Navy after HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar. When the Royal Navy finally scuttled Implacable in 1949, she flew both the French and British flags side-by-side as she sank.
Originally named Duguay-Trouin after René Trouin, Sieur du Gué. Construction, to a plan by Rolland but updated to a plan by Sané, began in 1794 but was interrupted in 1795. She was finally laid down in 1797, and launched at Rochefort in 1800.
On 22 November 1802, under Captain Claude Touffet, she departed Toulon as part of a squadron commanded by Commodore Quérangal, also comprising the frigate Guerriere and the flagship Duquesne, a sister Téméraire-class vessel armed en flûte. Bound for Santo Domingo, the squadron found itself blockaded in Cap Français during the Blockade of Saint-Domingue by HMS Elephant, Bellerophon, Theseus and Vanguard. After a successful sortie in the dark, the squadron split up. Guerrière and Duguay-Trouin managed to escape but Vanguard, with Tartar, captured Duquesne.
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