Picture No | 10221319 |
Date | 1805 |
Description | A powder primer from the 'Victory'. |
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A powder primer bearing an inscription that says it is from Nelson's flagship the H.M.S. Victory. These primers were as food for Nelson's guns on the 'Victory' which led in the famous Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
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Source | Photograph by Leon in 'The Illustrated London News', 21 October 1905, page 564 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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