Last year, we reported on the restoration of HMS Victory at her permanent home by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth.
Victory was the flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson and is most famous for her role during the Battle of Trafalgar, in which the British Royal Navy, under Nelson’s command, defeated the combined force of the French and Spanish navies off the coast of Spain on 21 October 1805.
The only first-rate ship to survive that era, Victory has been housed at Portsmouth since 1922, but even as a museum piece she continued to see drama. In 1941, she was hit by a Luftwaffe bomb, which broke her keel and required a hasty repair job as the Blitz raged in the skies above.
