The coin dates to 1894, the year a set of masts were installed on HMS Victory A 127-year-old farthing has been discovered under the mast of Lord Nelson's ... installed on the ship after the ...

4.30pm With the knowledge he has secured victory, but before the battle had officially concluded, Lord Nelson died. 5.30pm French ship Achille blew up signalling the end of the battle - in all ...

Sievers wrote from Gibraltar on October 27, 1805: 'Lord Nelson in the Victory engaged ... Although Sievers was not present on the Victory, he was on an adjacent ship and would have picked up ...

Rotting planks are to be replaced as part of the latest phase of work to renovate Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory. The £35m project marks the 100th anniversary of the ship being ...

Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the powder monkeys, the brave young boys who ferried the gunpowder to the guns, ...

Born on 29 September 1758 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, Horatio Nelson was the sixth of the 11 children of a clergyman. He joined the navy aged 12, on a ship commanded by a maternal uncle.

As Nelson lay dying he asked that some hair be kept for Lady Hamilton. Could this lock, now for sale, be some of that hair.

The Abbey collection contains one of the best likenesses of the great Admiral, Horatio, Viscount Nelson ... surround showing ships at sea (no longer displayed with the effigy). Ironically on this case ...

The Claxton village hall committee has defended its use of the White Ensign in the face of criticism from the Ministry of Defence.

Will you travel back to Tudor England and marvel at Henry VIII’s ship, walk in the footsteps of Lord Nelson on HMS Victory or walk through Cold War era submarine HMS Alliance? Get out on the sea ...