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 [...]