Included are The Redoutable, a Temeraire class 74-gun ship of the French Navy engaging with the flag ship of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, HMS Victory at The Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Four different incredible engravings that depict the wounding and death of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson on the quarterdeck of his flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar fought between the Royal Navy and the combined fleets of France and Spain during the Napoleonic War of the Third Coalition on 21 October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar, Spain and the ‘HMS Victory’ being towed into Gibraltar with the body of Nelson afterwards.
You will also see an earlier image of HMS Victory, flagship of Admiral Sir John Jervis delivering a full broadside to the Spanish ship Salvador del Mundo at the Battle Cape St Vincent during the French Revolutionary Wars on 14 February 1797 near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal.
9. HMS Victory from the past
1931: The sailing ship HMS Victory, the flagship of Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, at Portsmouth naval dockyard in Hampshire. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) Photo: The News archive
10. HMS Victory from the past
1926: Nelson's ship, HMS Victory, in dry dock but still flying the ensign. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) Photo: The news archive
11. HMS Victory from the past
Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson lays mortally wounded in the cockpit of his flagship the HMS Victory and is attended by Dr William Beatty and Captain Hardy at the Battle of Trafalgar fought between the Royal Navy and the combined fleets of France and Spain during the Napoleonic War of the Third Coalition on 21 October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar, Spain. An engraving by William Holland after an original painting by Arthur William Devis. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: The News archive
12. HMS Victory from the past
British sailors loading a cannon of the 'HMS Victory' whilst at close quarters with the French ship 'Redoutable' at the Battle of Trafalgar, during the Napoleonic Wars, 21st October 1805. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Photo: The News archive