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 ...

4.30pm With the knowledge he has secured victory, but before the battle had officially concluded, Lord Nelson died. 5.30pm French ship Achille blew up signalling the end of the battle - in all ...

Sievers wrote from Gibraltar on October 27, 1805: 'Lord Nelson in the Victory engaged the French Admiral most closely, during the heat of the action his Lordship was wounded with a grapeshot in ...

Lord Nelson's last words were not "kiss me ... a master-at-arms on HMS Belleisle near Nelson's HMS Victory. His account comes from a letter written six days after the battle in October 1805 ...

The Claxton village hall committee has defended its use of the White Ensign in the face of criticism from the Ministry of Defence.

As Nelson lay dying he asked that some hair be kept for Lady Hamilton. Could this lock, now for sale, be some of that hair.

Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the ...

Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, and was the sixth child of the Reverend Edmund Nelson and his wife Catherine A brooch containing a lock of Lord Nelson's hair that was given to ...