Scuttling the Trafalgar survivor HMS Implacable

2020-11-06T11:21:31+00:00December 2nd, 2019|Heritage|

 Short film showing the scuttling of the 18th century wooden-wall 74-gun ship HMS Implacable by the Royal Navy in 1949, after she was towed from Portsmouth out to Saint Catherine's Deep, a spot east of the Isle of Wight on December 2. Charges were placed in her bilges and in the film she sinks quickly [...]