Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
Quick Facts
- Date
- 1805
- Location
- Off Cape Trafalgar, Spain
- Belligerents
- Britain vs France and Spain
- Result
- Decisive British victory
- Era
- Age of Sail
- Conflict
- Napoleonic Wars
Ships in this Battle
British (23)
- HMS Spartiate (1798) – Battle line
- HMS Sirius (1797) – Frigate – Supporting role
- HMS Phoebe (1795) – Frigate – Supporting role
- HMS Euryalus (1803) – Frigate – Observing and dispatch duties
- HMS Prince (1788) – Battle line
- HMS Defence (1763) – Battle line
- HMS Thunderer (1783) – Battle line
- HMS Defiance (1783) – Battle line
- HMS Dreadnought (1801) – Battle line
- HMS Revenge (1805) – Battle line
- HMS Belleisle (1764) – Battle line
- HMS Tonnant (1798) – Battle line
- HMS Mars (1794) – Battle line
- HMS Colossus (1787) – Battle line
- HMS Orion (1787) – Battle line
- HMS Ajax (1798) – Battle line
- HMS Leviathan (1790) – Battle line
- HMS Conqueror (1801) – Battle line
- HMS Royal Sovereign (1786) – Flagship – Collingwood's flagship
- HMS Temeraire (1798) – Battle line
- HMS Bellerophon (1786) – Battle line
- HMS Neptune (1797) – Battle line
- HMS Victory (1765) – Flagship – Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson onboard