A 213-year-old biscuit dating from the Battle ... Trafalgar is to be sold at auction. The biscuit, which belonged to a sailor on board HMS Defence in 1805, is believed to be the oldest surviving ...

The 3,600-tonne ship featured in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory will be viewable by the public from below for the first time in 100 years thanks to a £35m ...

By 1805, France pretty much ... Nelson's strategy was to arrange his ships in two smaller squadrons at right angles to the enemy – one column lead by Nelson in HMS Victory, captained by Thomas ...

This led to the development of "all big gun" ships, culminating in HMS Dreadnought ... to the line of battle. Fisher ...

The claim is made by George Sievers, a master-at-arms on HMS Belleisle near Nelson ... by a French musket ball off Cape Trafalgar, Spain, in October 1805. Sievers’ two-page letter to his ...

The British naval hero was fatally shot in 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar ... led the 27-ship fleet charge in HMS Victory, while Vice Admiral Collingwood sailed in Royal Sovereign.

The 149 year-old ship, which survived the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is sailed out to be scuttled. Expensive restoration efforts were ruled out in an era of postwar austerity.

This dial can be fairly accurately dated at around 1805 as ... Lord Nelsons ship HMS Victory. The dial was probably commissioned by its first owner to celebrate the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Sievers, a master-at-arms on HMS ... 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). The Battle of Trafalgar saw the ...