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World of warships hms bellerophon review8/25/2023 ![]() Despite heavy casualties, including Captain Derby, she remained at her station and was the nearest vessel to L’Orient when the latter finally blew up during the night. ![]() In a fierce action exactly reminiscent of what had happened at the ‘Glorious First of June’, Bellerophon pounded her greatly superior adversary but was completely dismasted in so doing. Because of the damage she had sustained aloft, Bellerophon had then to withdraw from the scene but her conduct at this opening fleet action of the War laid the foundations for what was to follow.īy the time Nelson located the French fleet anchored in Aboukir Bay on 1st August 1798, Bellerophon was commanded by Captain Henry Derby and when he took his ship in to engage the enemy she found herself pitted against Admiral Bruey’s 120-gun flagship L’Orient. By 1794 Pasley had been promoted to Rear-Admiral and Bellerophon acted as his flagship at the battle of the ‘Glorious First of June’ where she engaged the huge 110-gun Révolutionnaire alone for an hour-and-a-half before the Russell and the Marlborough came to her assistance. Completed at Chatham in March 1787 at a total cost of £38,608, she was laid up for three years until fitted for sea in August 1790 and commissioned under Captain Thomas Pasley. Launched on 17th October 1786, she was measured by her builder at 1,613 tons and was 168 feet in length with a 47 foot beam. One of the fourteen ‘Arrogant’ class 74-gun Third Rates designed by Surveyor Slade in 1758, Bellerophon was built in Edward Greaves’ yard on the Medway at Frindsbury, near Rochester, where her keel was laid in May 1782. In the original gilt-wood frame.įootnote: Despite a service career as illustrious as any fighting ship in the Royal Navy, Bellerophon is principally remembered as the vessel to whose captain Emperor Napoleon surrendered after Waterloo and which then conveyed him to Plymouth, via Torbay, on the first stage of his long journey into exile. Thomas Luny (British, 1759-1837) HMS Bellerophon leaving Torbay with the defeated Emperor Napoleon aboard, 26th July 1815, this oil on panel shows the crew manning the yards to bring in the sails, having just dropped anchor in Torbay, with another battleship anchored astern and a further ship under sail in the distance, the foreground with working boats approaching, signed and dated ‘Luny 1827’(lower left).
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