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| 21st October 2000 | THE
IMMORTAL MEMORY |
| The official website of HMS Victory has been launched at www.hms-victory.com. HMS VICTORY is the oldest commissioned warship in the world, and is still manned by Officers and Ratings of the Royal Navy. She is now the flagship of the Second Sea Lord and Commander in Chief Naval Home Command and lies in No 2 Dry Dock at Portsmouth Naval Base, Portsmouth. England. She was of course Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar. HMS classes this site amongst the Best of the Web. | |
| Congratulations to Surgeon Harrison and Miss Leach to be married at 2.00pm today at Wath upon Dearne. | |
| 19th October 2000 |
New Tall Ships ring added to Webrings |
| 8th October 2000 | In
an exciting new outreach initiative the Royal
Naval Museum has launched 'The Naval Academy'. This comprises
a range of lectures and one-day seminars. They are designed to appeal
to all those with an interest in the history and development of
the Navy, and not just scholars and experts. |
| The
Royal
Naval Museum are also launching 'The Nelson Weekends' on
24/26 November 2000 and 10/11 February 2001. To book, or to obtain a special brochure giving more details please contact Mrs Helen Gooding, Royal Naval Museum, (PP66) HM Naval Base, Portsmouth PO1 3NY Tel 023 9272 7565. |
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| 18th September 2000 | It has been a very busy summer for HMS so we have not had much time to update the website! We have been busy with events at Kings Lynn (the birthplace of explorer George Vancouver), Kirby Hall, Portland Castle and the Captain Cook Memorial Museum at Whitby. Thanks particularly to the good turnout of members who made it to Whitby on 16/17 September despite the UK fuel crisis. |
| Our preliminary list of HMS events for 2001 has been published. | |
| The trustees of the Ben Burgess Nelson Memorabilia collection intend to provide a museum relating to the life and times of Lord Nelson at 26, South Quay, Great Yarmouth. Anyone wishing to help with funding should contact the Appeals Office, 38 Europe Way, Marineau Lane, Norwich, NT1 2EN. | |
| 17th July 2000 | Ships of the Old Navy (1780-1840) has been added to the Best of the Web links section. This is an excellent and comprehensive guide to Royal Navy ships (by name) of this period. |
| 13th July 2000 | This website has been selected as a Key Resource in the Historical Re-Enacment section of www.links2go.com. |
| The Hull University 'Bounty and Bligh' Symposium scheduled to take place 3rd to 7th July has been postponed until 2001. | |
| 19th June 2000 | 'Above and Under Hatches' by James Gardner is the latest in the series of original sailors memoirs published by Chatham. Unlike most of the sailors' memoirs of the Nelsonic navy, Gardner's was not written for publication: it was purely intended for the entertainment of his family and friends, and did not see publication until long after his death. As a result potential problems of libel did not constrain him to bite his tongue when it came to opinions of individuals, high and low, in the naval service. Order your copy now from our Bookshop. |
| 11th June 2000 | The UK National Maritime Museum have launched the Journal for Maritime Research (JMR). JMR is the first electronic journal in the field of maritime research. From contemporary issues to the political, economic, cultural and social aspects of maritime history, JMR publishes innovative, multi-disciplinary research on maritime subjects. An article of interest to readers is some research in progress on 'The Sick and Hurt Board and the health of seamen, c. 1700 - 1806'. |
| 15th May 2000 | New Bookshop (in association with Amazon.co.uk) added to the Resources section. Now you can buy books about Nelson and his navy online or search for other titles. |
| 12th May 2000 | The 'Grog Conundrum' and 'Revolutionary Calendar' added to the Nelsons Navy section, together with a fascinating update to 'Santa Cruz and Nelsons Arm' from a local of Tenerife. |
| 9th May 2000 | The BBC are showing the BBC 2 History Zone film 'Myths of Nelsons Navy' in the UK on Saturday 13th May at 8.05pm. The film aims to dispell the popular 'rum, sodomy and the lash' view of Nelsons Navy with a much different picture of a well fed navy where victory could ensure a fabulous profit from prize money. HMS did the historical recontructions for the flim. |
| The 1805 Club have launched the official home page of Vice Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson KB. A new and innovative approach being to make the website appear to be the personal one of an historical character. | |
| A new series of the Hornblower films starts production this month. | |
| Funding has fell through for the construction of a visitors centre for HMS Trincomalee in Hartlepool. A new partner or funds must be raised, meanwhile the ship will remain (now alfoat) in the Historic Quay. | |
| A conference on 'Health in the Royal Navy during the Age of Nelson' is being held an the Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport on 1st July. More details from Peter Goodwin, Keeper & Curator, HMS Victory, HM Naval Base, Portsmouth, PO1 3NH. | |
| The website has been completed updated with new layouts, text and backgrounds. This News section has been added and will be constantly updated. |
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