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Shaffer's Maritime Museum
HMS Victory
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·        English Ship-of-the-line- the ancestor of the battleship. Launched in 1765

·        104 Guns; Crew of  850 - fought at the Battles of the Nile and Trafalgar

·        The HMS Victory is the oldest actively commissioned warship in the world.

·        She was Admiral Lord Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805

·        Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar insured that the French, under Napoleon Bonaparte, would not be able to invade England.

·        Nelson died at Trafalgar and was sent home in a wine cask for a hero’s funeral

·        Nelson had had quite an affair with Lady Emma Hamilton whose husband, Lord Hamilton- Ambassador to Sicily, appreciated the stand in! They even had a child. Nelson’s wife overlooked the whole thing. She had to!

·        The HMS Victory is in dry dock today in Portsmouth, England, where she serves as the flagship of the First Sea Lord of the Admiralty.

·        This model has a piece of wood from the original HMS Victory incorporated into it.The two "catheads" used to retrieve the anchors are made from wood from the original ship.

 

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