Trafalgar
In 1805, Captain Robert Redmill took command of Polyphemus off Cadiz. Later that year, she took part in the Battle of Trafalgar, where she fought in the lee column, with six killed and wounded. She engaged the French ships Neptune and Achille and after the battle captured the Spanish ship Argonauta. She towed HMS Victory, carrying Nelson's body, back to Gibraltar.
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“Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air
Nelson stylites in Trafalgar Square
Reminds the British what once they were.”
—Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)