HMS Spartiate (1793)

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HMS Spartiate (1793) a 74-gun 3rd rate ship of the line which fought at Trafalgar.

Spartiate was one of nine French ships captured at the Battle of the Nile and was afterwards pressed into service in the Royal Navy.

In 1805, she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar. With Minotaur, she forced the surrender of the Spanish ship Neptuno (80).

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