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Thursday, December 2, 2021

HMS Implacable.

On This Day in 1949, the second oldest ship in the Royal Navy, HMS IMPLACABLE, was towed HMNB Portsmouth, to be scuttled off the Isle of Wight. She began life as the French Duguay-Trouin and was at Trafalgar. She was captured by the Royal Navy a few days later at Cape Ortegal.






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