1949: HMS IMPLACABLE's Last Voyage | BBC Television Newsreel | Retro Transport | BBC Archive

Описание: HMS Implacable, a 149 year-old ship of the line - which survived the Battle of Trafalgar - embarks on her final, solemn voyage.

The figurehead, deck and stern cabin of this captured French ship are to be kept at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, but her hulk is to be towed out from Portsmouth dockyard and scuttled.

Originally broadcast 5 December, 1949.





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