The only surviving sail from HMS Victory during the 1805 Battle of Trafalgar is being brought out of storage to go on display to the public at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.
Trafalgar Day is an annual celebration of British victory over the French and Spanish fleets by the Royal Navy in the 19th Century. On 21 October 1805, Royal Navy Commander Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson ...
It is being sold by a private collector who swapped it for a piece of £50 furniture. A letter of authenticity dated 5 February 1980, is being sold along with the sail that was sent to the owner by The ...
The 3,600-tonne ship featured in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory will be viewable by the public from below for the first time in 100 years thanks to a £35m ...
Every day hundreds more photographs are added to the database recording progress on Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory in Portsmouth’s Historic Dockyard, its ribs gaping as shipwrights strip out wood ...
A cannonball was fired into HMS Victory's foremast during the Battle of Trafalgar A wooden foremast from HMS Victory featuring a hole punched into it by a cannonball during the Battle of Trafalgar is ...