THE OLD VICTORY.
NELSON'S FAMOUS SIGNAL. FLOWN Ab AT TRAFALGAR. [from our own corrispondent.] LONDON. Oct. 27. H.M.S. Victory flew Nelson's signal from her rigging last Sunday in honour of Trafalgar Day. Under the reconstruction scheme the Victory's rigging has been restored to what, it was at Trafalgar; consequently the historic .signal was flown in the same fashion as Nelson made it for the first time for many years. Bunches cf laurel decorated the Victory's yard arms, and wreaths virero hung between her masts. A laurel wreath encircled the spot on the quarterdeck where Nelson fell, and new wreaths and flowers were placed in/the cockpit'where he died. The ship's "knee," against which Nelson was reclining when he died, is now restored to the Victory. This was taken out of the vessel after she was damaged in a collision in 1905, and given by King Edward to the British Sailors' Society, The society has now returned it to the ship. A party of boys from the Prince of Wales Hostel took the to Portsmouth, where it was handed to Admiral Sir Osmond Brock, the Comman-der-in-Chief, and replaced in its original position in the Victory's cockpit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20131, 17 December 1928, Page 14
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194THE OLD VICTORY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20131, 17 December 1928, Page 14
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