INTREPIDE 1799 ship-of-the-line

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INTREPIDE 1799 ship-of-the-line

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Sep 10, 2009 9:48 pm

1799 Built in Ferrol, Spain as a Spanish ship-of-the-line under the name INTRPIDO.
1800 Sold to France and rename INTRÉPIDE
A 2nd Rate armed with 74 guns.

21 October 1805 under command of Louis-Antoine Infernet, who had his 10-year-old son on board, was she one of the ships of Vice Admiral Pierre Dumanoir le Pelley in the Battle of Trafalgar.
Dumanoir commanded the six-ship vanguard of the French fleet, with SCIPION, DUGUAY-TROUIN, MONT-BLANC, INTRÉPIDE and NEPTUNE.
Nelson’s attacks left this ships downwind of the main confrontation and Dumanoir did not immediately obey Villeneuve’s orders to return to the battle. When the ships did turn back, most of them only exchanged a few shots before retiring.

Captain Infernet and his crew were of a other caliber, and want to join the battle, eventually he disobeyed Dumanoir’s orders and joined the battle, followed by the Spanish NEPTUNO, INTRÉPIDE fought against the British LEVIATHAN, AFRICA, AGAMEMNON, AJAX, ORION and CONQUEROR.
At 17.00 when badly damaged with half of her crew killed she did strike her colours.
She got 306 casualties during the battle.
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Captain Infernet wounded, and his son were taken to the ORION.

Later the INTRÉPIDE was burnt and scuttled on the orders of Admiral Collingwood, to avoid recapture by a counter attack of a six-ship French squadron under commando of Captain Julien Cosmao of the PLUTON, two days later.

Cayman Islands 2005 $2 sg?, scott?
Jamaica 2005 $70 sg?, scott1019

Source: mostly copied from http://www.treeforall.org.uk/trafalgar/ ... ods/Orion/
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/NO.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Intrépide
Watercraft Philately vol.49 page 55.
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