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🌟 #MaritimeMonday Announcement 🌟

HMS Victory, Nelson’s flagship and one of the main attractions at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, will be featured as part of the upcoming Naval Dockyards Society 26th Annual Conference.

Hosted at the National Museum of the Royal Navy between 9th – 11th June, this 3-day hybrid international conference promises to be an outstanding event. 🛳️
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Keynote speeches will include Dr Antony Firth’s ‘Placing Warships: Reconnecting vessels and dockyards’ and Clare Hunt’s presentation, ‘HMS Trincomalee: Design, Construction and Modification, 1812 – 1900’.
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We’re looking forward to seeing how studies of historic warships are contributing to new international perspectives on dockyards as global hubs and regional centres of maritime culture. ⚓
#maritimemonday #HMSVictory #Nelson #maritime #maritimehistory

We’re looking forward to seeing how studies of historic warships are contributing to new international perspectives on dockyards as global hubs and regional centres of maritime culture.
#maritimemonday #HMSVictory #Nelson #maritime #maritimehistory

The National Museum of the Royal Navy has the UK’s largest collection of naval vessels and artefacts, including internationally famous ships such as HMS Victory, HMS Warrior, and HMS Caroline.
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Wessex Archaeology has worked closely in providing Conservation Management plans for vessels at the National Museum of the Royal Navy Dockyard for nearly a decade.
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Following our 2014 project, putting together a Conservation Management Plan for Nelson’s flagship HMS Victory, we’ve completed Conservation Management Plans and recording work for the WW1 cruiser HMS Caroline, last survivor of the Battle of Jutland and the submarine HMS Alliance.

The HMS Victory, pictured here, represents our most in-depth study to date. We produced a Conservation Management plan for the HMS Victory at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

Conservation Management Plans require a full study into the fabric and social history of the ship.

This included surveying timber marks left by shipwrights and dockyard workers so we could identify timbers used in construction and repairs. Paint analysis allowed a replication of the Trafalgar paint scheme, demonstrating how Georgian period navy would have looked in full effect

The HMS Victory still serves as a commissioned vessel and, as flagship of the First Sea Lord, is visited by more than 350,000 people annually.

🔗Check out the link below to read the full story of our work at the National Museum of the Royal Navy -
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