Apart from a very brief[one month and three new gearboxes]dalliance with a VdP 3 litre my dad always drove Super Snipes from the late '50s until '67 when production ended,they were fine cars indeed,the Imperial was a slightly posher version of the same car.I'd agree with Lizzie and go for Trafalgar.Last of the great fleet battles under sail-although there were other smaller scale battles after that.Collingwood breaking the combined fleets line first in Royal Sovereign.The last signal nelson caused to be hoisted aboard Victory[and was still flying until her masts came down being "Engage the enemy more closely"This whilst a lot of the ships were so close that the lower gunports could not be opened if shut nor closed if open.Must have been a magnificent if gruesome sight.
Vice Admiral Lord Collingwood took HMS
Royal Soveriegn into the rear of the combined fleet line about (eye witness and official ship logs vary on this) 20 minutes before Nelson launched his attack with the heavy weights of his fleet on the head part of the Spanish and French line as that is where the French and Spanish Flagships were together. Indeed Nelson aimed to go to the aft of the latter, the
Santissima Trindad, a 140 gun monster, but the combined fleet closed up at that point and instead went aft of the next in line, the
Bucentaura, just 80 guns (compared to the Victory's 100).
What a sight indeed as the Royal Navy ship opened up there full broadsides as they crossed through the line!