How Nelson was carried home

2020-11-06T11:21:46+00:00October 21st, 2019|Heritage|

Trafalgar Day, 21 October, not only marks one of Admiral Nelson's great sea victories, in 1805, but also his demise and the beginning of a tradition known as the Immortal Memory – where basically you toast him and his deeds. Without advocating any drunkenness on watch at sea, the proposal to splice the mainbrace to [...]

HMS Victory’s fore topsail goes on display

2020-11-06T11:24:47+00:00July 30th, 2018|Heritage, News|

Nelson's fore topsail goes on display at the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth for a limited time this summer. Even as the admiral lay dying, deep below decks aboard HMS Victory, during the Battle of Trafalgar on 21st October 1805, the fore topsail of his 104 gun flagship was taking a terrible [...]

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