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With the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in October 2005, HMS Victory found herself back in the historical spotlight.
Constructed from the wood of more than 6,000 trees (mainly English oak), the Victory was a state-of-the-art fighting vessel. It was on her quarterdeck on October 21, 1805, that Admiral Horatio Nelson was shot by a French sharpshooter during the Battle of Trafalgar.
Her permanent home is a dry dock at the Royal Naval Dockyard at Portsmouth.
Biography
HMS Victory is the most iconic ship in English naval history. We tell the story of when and how she came to be built, and look at the career she had before her defining moment at Trafalgar
Features
Relive the Battle of Trafalgar, and experience a little of what it was like to serve in the 19th-century Navy. And what about Admiral Nelson's famous affair with Lady Hamilton? We spill the beans…
