12:22 pm Thu Apr 23, 2026

The Battle of Trafalgar is generally considered settled history: a decisive British victory over Napoleon's fleet. But in 1949, the Royal Navy found one last loose end in HMS Implacable, a rebadged, captured French warship that had survived for nearly a century and a half.

Nelson's flagship, the HMS Victory, is a national icon. The Victory gets preservation, reverence, and schoolchildren. The last remnant of Napoleon's navy gets scuttled after being put to a century and a half of hard labor. Some knives turn slowly.

Previously:

• Mass photo-shoot in Trafalgar Square this Saturday

• Reenactment of Nelson's funeral on the Thames

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