London’s summer season of Modern and Contemporary Art sales at Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Phillips took another step backwards ...

The Royal Sovereign flag is being sold for only the second time. It remained in the family of Charles Aubrey Antram, one of the ship’s officers, until the 1970s.

It certainly is the first Nelson that I’ve come across that talks about sheep. “And here he is, writing from HMS Victory in June 1805, a few months before the Battle of Trafalgar.

HMS Victory: New Commanding Officer appointed to Royal Navy flagship after ten year tenure By Freddie Webb Defence Reporter Comment Published 27th May 2025, 13:25 BST ...

The Battle of Tsushima was the decisive naval action between Japan and Russia that effectively ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 and one of the most important naval battles in history. It was the ...

Sharman is thus immortalised in literature. A much-respected figure around the town, Sharman passed away in 1867, one of the last surviving members of HMS Victory’s crew at Trafalgar.

The designation HMS, then, is primarily for commissioned ships of the British Royal Navy. Since 1913's Ships' Names Committee, there has been a British body in charge of naming vessels.

In the early 1980s, John McKay wanted to build a model of the HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. But when he searched for architectural drawings ...

There's a running joke in family history circles, says Bruno Pappalardo, naval expert at the National Archives. "If every man said to have served in the Battle of Trafalgar actually did," he says, ...

The Royal Navy flagship, known for Admiral Lord Nelson’s famous victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is undergoing major restoration work. Much of the vessel is covered ...