Sotheby's auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for 297,000 pounds ...

The British naval hero is primed for action as he writes from on board HMS Victory that he 'hopes for a good battle which God of his infinite mercy grant us very soon'.

Sievers, a master-at-arms on HMS Belleisle, is reported to have fought in the battle, but he was not present at the death of the Admiral. The letter is expected to be sold for $2,000 (£1,600).

LONDON (AP) — Sotheby's is auctioning a scrap of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar.

HMS Victory, which has been in ... Famous as the flagship of Lord Viscount Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson when he defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, ...

The HMS Victory, commissioned in 1778, is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line. ... On the quarterdeck there's a plaque noting where Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson fell.

His great hero was Admiral Lord Nelson, and although he had been dead for 80 years when my grandfather joined up, the nation’s premier naval hero still had his mark on the traditions of the service.

A replica of Nelson's HMS Victory has been set alight in front of thousands of spectators to mark the Battle of Trafalgar's 200th anniversary. The Torrington Cavaliers fund-raising group, of Devon, ...

Conservation workers discovered a 127-year-old coin in the mast of the HMS Victory.

A leather fire bucket from Admiral Lord Nelson’s ship, HMS Victory and a Victorian Scottish silver tea service were some of the discoveries at a charity antiques valuation day in the ...

LONDON (AP) — Sotheby's auction house says a fragment of the red, white and blue "Victory Jack" flag that flew from Adm. Horatio Nelson's flagship during the Battle of Trafalgar has sold for ...