The 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 2005 will give us a waterfall of stamps who will depict important scenes and events highlighting the battle between the Royal Navy and the combined Spanish and French fleet of Trafalgar 200 years ago.
Gibraltar has used on 05 January 2005 four stamps and a MS of which two depict warships the 40p gives the HMS ENTREPENANTE and the £1.60 the HMS VICTORY depict on many stamps.
The smallest ship in the battle, which took place 21 October 1805, was the HMS ENTREPRENANTE.
She was captured from the French in 1799 or 1801 (other source).
Included in the Royal navy as a cutter under the name HMS ENTREPRENANTE.
123 ton (bm), dim. 67 x 21.5ft.
Armament 8 guns.
Crew around 40 men.
03 April 1804 command was taken by Lieutenant Robert Benjamin Young. She was used to carry sealed orders and provisions to the warships of the British fleet.
After the Battle of Trafalgar she rescued 140 men from the French ship ACHILLE when she exploded.
She was sent to Faro with Collingwood’s dispatches announcing the victory.
1805 Lieutenant John Purver took over the command, must be after the battle, during the battle she was under Young command.
1806 Stationed in the English Channel watching the French naval forces.
1808 Under Lieutenant Peter Williams command in the English Channel.
1811 Transferred to the Mediterranean.
While she was in Malaga Bay on 25 April 1811 delivering a letter to General Sabastini, the Governor under the flag of truce, Lieutenant Williams saw a French privateer and her prize coming in and as he was working his way out of the bay with an answer for Governor Campbell at Gibraltar, he brought the ENTREPENANTE to action. After about 15 minutes the privateer was driven ashore, holed in many places. The ENTREPRENANTE since she was in three fathoms of water, she had to tack. Lieutenant Williams fired a few shots at the prize, boarded and took her. She was the Spanish brig ST. JOSEPH from Cadiz and Gibraltar, and the privateer had been taken her while she was underway to Tarragona.
The brig was taken in tow watched by hundreds of spectators on the mole head at Malaga two miles away
The ENTREPRENANTE had no casualties.
Till she was broken up on June 1812 she was thereafter used in Gibraltar waters.
Gibraltar 2005 40p sg?, scott?
Great Britain 2005 1st sg 2574, scott?. 42p sg 2576, scott ? 42p sg 2577, scott?
Mostly copied from http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/E.HTM