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“A man should witness a battle in a three-decker from the middle deck, for it beggars all description: it bewilders the senses of sight and hearing”

Lewis Roatley, age 20, 2nd Marine Lieutenant aboard Victory at Trafalgar

Camperdown by W.A. Knell
National War Museum of Scotland

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2023-03-05

The battle of Camperdown (Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was fought 1797. The British fleet defeated the Batavian Navy (the Dutch were allied of Revolutionary France).
In 1801 Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg RA painted the flagship ‘Vryheid’ at the moment of her surrender.

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2022-10-11

HMS Nile in the Mediterranean
Nile was a participant (and almost a casualty) in the infamous manoeuvres that led to the disastrous collision between Victoria and Camperdown in 1893.

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2020-10-24

The BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, due to be held in Camperdown Park in Dundee over the weekend Friday 22 May to Sunday 24 May, has been cancelled https://t.co/RAJ37qMiFR

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2020-03-14

2010 , the last of the Type 45 Destroyers was launched Govan 213 years to the day since Admiral Duncan defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown in HMS VENERABLE

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2019-10-11

“Blackwall Yard” by Francis Holman

On the north bank of the Thames near Greenwich in 1784s. The 74 on the stocks in the middle is thought to be HMS Venerable. She will go on to be Admiral Duncan's flagship at the Battle of Camperdown

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2019-05-17

Iconic Cox's stack designed by James MacLaren & George A Cox for Camperdown, 1865-6

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2016-05-25