The exhibit is the world's only known scale model of HMS Victory from the time of the Battle of Trafalgar A scale model of HMS Victory made more than 200 years ago has been put on permanent display.
The bone ship is believed to have been carved during the Napoleonic Wars A model ship carved from bone by a French prisoner during the Napoleonic Wars and a replica of a "cursed" vessel have gone on ...
Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their full-sized counterparts will behave at sea. Freshwater is used to avoid ...