Brave? On the wood! .. Bashny.Net

"Brave" was built in the shipyard of Chatham in 1793. It was a beautiful three-deck high-speed 98-gun ship. Its construction has gone 5,000 trees (English oak). Masts of Baltic pine. Rig 5400 square meters. 40 kilometers of rope stretched across 750 blocks. 60-meter mast.
It cost incredibly expensive - £ 73,241
The hold mooing, bleating animals and cackled. Each man had to get a week 4 pounds of beef, pork 2 pounds, 2 pounds of peas, 11 ounces of oatmeal, 6 oz of sugar, 6 ounces of butter and 12 ounces of cheese. And a pound of crackers and half a pint of rum a day. And lemon juice for scurvy.
The crew consisted of 720 people. Junge The youngest was just 11 years old.
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The Battle of Trafalgar British (7 trёhpalubnyh, 20 double-decker, 2312 guns) fought against the combined fleet of France and Spain (1 Four-3 trёhpalubnyh, 29 double-decker, 2864 guns)
"Brave" fought almost suicidal bravery against the Spanish Four-"Santísima Trinidad" (the largest ship of the XVIII century) and two French ships.
In "Brave," 47 people were killed and another 76 were injured. The ship was on fire. Masts were bare - from the sails virtually nothing left. Nevertheless, the ship remained afloat.



Total British lost 451 people. And not a single ship
French Spaniards lost 4,400. And 20 battleships
Perhaps if the French won the battle, Napoleon, instead of going to the Russian would have landed in England

"Brave" was later sold for firewood ...

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