In the early 1980s, John McKay wanted to build a model of the HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of ...

Captain Suckling’s Raisonnable was swapped for the 74-gun HMS Triumph but remained off the Thames Estuary. Nelson, barely 14 years old, was entrusted with command of the Triumph’s tender ...

the battleship HMS Nelson played a crucial role in the fight. This aging, accident-prone warship, built in the 1920s, had a unique design with all her guns positioned at the front. Facing the ...

The Royal Navy flagship, known for Admiral Lord Nelson’s ... Trafalgar in 1805.” HMS Victory was commissioned in 1778 and took 6,000 trees to construct - holding 104 guns and being over ...

John Rigby—born in 1758—founded his famed gunmaking firm, John Rigby & Co., in 1775, and year 2025 marks the company's semiquincentennial celebration.

At the age of nineteen he was promoted to lieutenant and at the age of twenty-three became a captain of the HMS Gibraltar. As a serving Royal ... with an extra four ships as well as a 50-gun frigate.

On May 10, 1972, the YA-10A made its first flight, flown by Fairchild-Republic chief test pilot Howard “Sam” Nelson ... batteries or anti-aircraft guns. An Inertial Navigation System (INS ...

TORONTO - Jayden Nelson and Ralph Priso, two young Canadians deemed surplus to requirements by Toronto FC, return to BMO Field on Saturday as members of the Vancouver Whitecaps. With the Whitecaps ...