Vehicle    From 7/5/1765 

HMS Victory

Categories: Armed Forces

HMS Victory was built in the Old Single Dock in Chatham's Royal Dockyard. From her website "she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War. In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. ... In 1922 she was saved for the nation and placed permanently into dry dock where she remains today." In Portsmouth.

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HMS Victory

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Hurlingham Yacht Club

1922 is the year that the Club took on its current name, though we don't know...

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Lieutenant Gerald Maurice Clive Toft

Lieutenant Gerald Maurice Clive Toft

Resident of Golders Green killed serving in WW2. Gerald Maurice Clive Toft was born in 1923, the elder son of Edmund Toft (1894-1941) and Violette Maud Hélène Toft née Duché (1895-1966). His birth...

Person, Armed Forces, France

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Gunner Reginald George Henry Pullen

Gunner Reginald George Henry Pullen

Reginald George Henry Pullen was born on 14 August 1911 the eldest of the six children of George Henry Pullen (1889-1950) and Rose Mary Pullen née Bailey (1891-1980). The birth of George Pullen was...

Person, Armed Forces, Malaysia, Singapore

War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Richd. T. Gates

Richd. T. Gates

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Owen L. Soar

Owen L. Soar

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Walter Moss

Walter Moss

Resident of the Central Ward, Hendon who served and died in WW1.

Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial

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St Margaret's Barking

Church. Originally a small chapel built outside the walls of Barking Abbey.  Altered and enlarged in the 15th and 16th centuries. Captain Cook was married here in 1762.

Building, Religion

1 memorial