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As the flagship of Nelson at Trafalgar, and the sole survivor, anywhere in the world, of those ships of the line on which Britain’s naval supremacy was founded, HMS Victory well deserves a book to herself. The present volume, written for the general reader as well as the specialist, and illustrated both with contemporary paintings and modern photographs, devotes little space to the battles in which she took part (she was in commission at sea for only 18 years) but a great deal more to the details of her construction and of the numerous alterations made during her protracted career....
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