Trafalgar Day 21 October

[krtek a houby]

some utter pillocks tagged Nelson's column. they ought to end up in the SBS's dark room in Poole and discover what the Nations naval traditions are all about think pulp fiction

Tell us about your rape fantasies without telling us about your rape fantasies.

 

[spitfire]

"Modelling Hero of the day (like many days before) is Marijn van Gils who is building a diorama of HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar in 1/300 scale...Treat yourself to his thread over at The Ship Model Forum: "

Spoiler: tweet

The Ship Model Forum • View topic - HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

 

[A380]

219 th anniversary today.

 

[rubbershoes]

219 th anniversary today.

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Only 31 years until a milestone anniversary. Can't wait.

 

[PTK]

A former Blue Peter presenter was given the job of promoting the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. He said that it was important that school children learned about it, because if Nelson had lost, we would all be speaking Spanish.

 

[A380]

A former Blue Peter presenter was given the job of promoting the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. He said that it was important that school children learned about it, because if Nelson had lost, we would all be speaking Spanish.

TBF it was a French Spanish fleet at Trafalgar…

 

[StoneRoad]

That battle must have been hell afloat for the crews involved, a lot of whom would have been press-ganged into the Royal Navy [and other navies].
Very loud and very bloody indeed

 

[A380]

That battle must have been hell afloat for the crews involved, a lot of whom would have been press-ganged into the Royal Navy [and other navies].
Very loud and very bloody indeed

Yes,
Many many of the people there would have had no choice in it. And the injuries caused in wooden ships getting hit were horrendous. Add that to the medical interventions available and it must have been like hell.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The current set up if you visit Victory is really very well done, take the audio guide and point at the QR codes, when you get down in to the bowels of the ship where they took the injured it's a horrific place to be, you really can get a feel as to how awful it would have been down there, blood sloshing around, limbs in buckets and so on.

 

[StoneRoad]

I've read the Patrick O'Brian novels ...

 

[PTK]

TBF it was a French Spanish fleet at Trafalgar…

Yes, but it would have been France ruling Britain, not Spain.
Actually, I don't think that French rule would have lasted long, and furthermore, I don't think Napoleon wanted all the people conquered by his state to become French speakers.

 

[A380]

Yes, but it would have been France ruling Britain, not Spain.
Actually, I don't think that French rule would have lasted long, and furthermore, I don't think Napoleon wanted all the people conquered by his state to become French speakers.

It was the earlier revolutionary government that were quite effective in stamping out the various regional languages of France and getting Parisian French to be the single national language (almost) as you say I’m not sure Bonaparte* was that bothered…

* worried about calling politicians by their first name on here…

 

[JimW]

limbs in buckets

Generous of Nelson to order in KFC for the ratings.

 

[CNT36]

Generous of Nelson to order in KFC for the ratings.

And I always thought it was invented by an army lad.

 

[bcuster]

play the vids simultaneously for a multi-media experience well worth your admission fee!

 

[Chilli.s]

Probably have better railways and no monarchy to support if not for fun sponge nelson

 

[PTK]

Probably have better railways and no monarchy to support if not for fun sponge nelson

Yep. And the metric system.