HMS Triumph (1764) explained

HMS Triumph was a 74-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 3 March 1764 at Woolwich.

In 1797, she took part in the Battle of Camperdown, and in 1805 Triumph was part of Admiral Calder's fleet at the Battle of Cape Finisterre.

21 July, 1802 she was at Gibraltar to prevent Algerian corsairs from passing through the Straits.^[1]

In 1810 Triumph and, salvaged a large load of elemental mercury from a wrecked Spanish vessel near Cadiz, Spain. The bladders containing the mercury soon ruptured, poisoning the crew with mercury vapour.

Triumph was on harbour service from 1813 but was not broken up until 1850.

References

• Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .

External links

• M. P. Earles: A Case of Mass Poisoning With Mercury Vapour on Board H.M.S. Triumph at Cadiz, 1810. In: Medical History. July 1964, vol. 8(3), p. 281–286, online at [//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1033393/?page=1 NCBI]
• National Maritime Museum - HMS Triumph in 1808

Notes and References

1. Book: Naval Documents related to the United States Wars with the Barbary Powers Volume II Part 2 of 3 January 1802 through August 1803 . 210 . U.S. Government Printing Office . Ibiblio . 6 November 2024.