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HMS Victory May 2011
What lies beneath?!
| Colin Bishop | 13/05/2011 18:09:54 |
 Moderator 4708 forum posts 6077 photos 402 articles | I visited Portsmouth today and found that HMS Victory has had part of the outer planking to her port bow removed for repairs. Quite an interesting sight. The figurehead has also been removed for a while.
 More photos in my album here: http://www.modelboats.co.uk/albums/member_album.asp?a=15740
Colin |
| ashley needham | 14/05/2011 11:08:00 |
 6845 forum posts 200 photos | Colin, the amount of work beggars belief. It is truly amazing that the skill existed to make something that big out of that much wood
Ashley PS I wonder how much Ronsons wood seal and filler they get through???  |
| Bob Abell | 15/05/2011 17:35:50 |
 8951 forum posts 2824 photos | Colin
Is there any battle damage to be seen?
I once saw a book in the local library, many years ago and it showed the battle damage to the Victory
It was very interesting and the drawings were done by J M W Turner
No cameras in those days!
Bob |
| Colin Bishop | 15/05/2011 18:12:07 |
Moderator 4708 forum posts 6077 photos 402 articles | It's probably all been repbuilt since then Bob, I think very little or the original now remains, notably the deck planking in the Orlop where Nelson died..
Still, you could probably say the same for most of us by now...
 Colin |
| Lance White | 09/06/2011 16:09:42 |
| 6 forum posts |
Just seen this (don't get in here very much...).
You wouldn't see any battle damage, because the bow on it now isn't what was on it at Trafalgar (although it looks like it).
She was rebuilt in 1814, with the latest style round bow, which she kept until being rebuilt again in 1922 when she was put into dry dock. and it was decided to rebuild her her to her Trafalgar condition (she was apparently extremely rotten at this point - getting clobbered by HMS Neptune being towed to the breakers and making a break for freedom in 1908 couldn't have helped...)
If you look on here : http://www.worldnavalships.com/hms_victory.htm
you can see what she looked like for most of her life.CheersLance
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