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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

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T. W. Latimer

T. W. Latimer

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Person, Armed Forces

War served, WW1
1 memorial
M. N. Houghton

M. N. Houghton

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Person, Armed Forces

War dead, WW1
1 memorial
Charles Lightoller

Charles Lightoller

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Person, Armed Forces, Tragedy, Transport

1 memorial
RAF POWs lost in Borneo

RAF POWs lost in Borneo

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Group, Armed Forces, Borneo

1 memorial

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2 memorials
Francis Crick

Francis Crick

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1 memorial
Linton Henry Nightingale

Linton Henry Nightingale

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Person

War dead, WW2
1 memorial