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  1. Depictions of the ships behind the SoG-miniatures

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    Duguay-Trouin.

    Part 1 (In French Service.)


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    Originally named Duguay-Trouin after René Trouin, Sieur du Gué who was a famous Breton corsair of Saint-Malo. He had a brilliant privateering and naval career and eventually became "Lieutenant-General of the Naval Armies of the King."


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    Construction, to a plan by Rolland but updated to a plan
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  2. Depictions of the ships behind the SoG-miniatures

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    Duguay-Trouin.

    Part 2 (In British Service.)


    HMS Implacable.

    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.


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    She survived the Battle of Trafalgar only for the British to capture her at the subsequent Battle of Cape Ortegal.
    Capture.

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  3. Tordenskjold: Song of a naval hero

    I admit it is only in Danish, but a beautiful melody:

    http://youtu.be/mSeeyBACoD8

    Morten
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  4. Depictions of the ships behind the SoG-miniatures

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    FRENCH FRIGATE COURAGEUSE.




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    Courageuse was a 12-pounder Concorde class frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in 1778. The British captured her in 1799 and thereafter used her as a receiving ship or prison hulk at Malta before breaking her up in 1802.
    The Concorde class was a type of 32-gun
    frigate of the French Navy, designed by Henri Chevillard, carrying 12-pounder long guns as their main armament. Three
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  5. Depictions of the ships behind the SoG-miniatures

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    FRENCH FRIGATE COURAGEUSE.

    Not quite so much info available on some of the Frigate Captains I'm afraid.



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    Courageuse
    was a 12-pounder
    Concorde class frigate of the French Navy. She was launched in 1778. The British captured her in 1799 and thereafter used her as a receiving ship or prison hulk at Malta before breaking her up in 1802.
    The Concorde class was a type of 32-gun
    frigate of the French Navy, designed by Henri
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