flag ship [flag-ship]

French ship Pluton (1804)

Pluton was a 74-gun French ship of the line built at Toulon which took part in the Battle of Trafalgar under Captain Julien Cosmao.

Two days later, on 23 October 1805 she was the flag-ship of the counter-attack from Cádiz, together with Indomptable, Neptune, Rayo, and San Francisco de Asis, to recapture some of the British prizes. They managed to re-take Santa Anna and Algésiras.

To prevent their recapture, the British scuttled Intrépide, and Neptuno. Rayo and San Francisco de Asis were wrecked on their journey back.

She was captured by Spain in Cadiz in 1808 and commissioned in the Spanish Navy as Pluton. She was later renamed Montañes, and was eventually broken up in 1816.

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