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Total Victory: The Battle of Trafalgar

The scuttling of HMS Implacable in 1949 marked the poignant end of one of Britain’s oldest surviving warships. Originally launched in 1795 as the French ship Duguay-Trouin and captured by the Royal Navy at the Battle of Trafalgar, she served for over a century before being preserved as a historic relic. Despite efforts by historians and naval enthusiasts to save her, postwar austerity and lack of funds sealed her fate. On 2 December 1949, Implacable was towed out to the Solent and ceremonially s