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Description: | Silver box with oak lid. In a silver mount on the lid is a miniature of Nelson in a hat. The box is rectangular with rounded corners. A silver plaque inside the lid is inscribed: 'The oak of this Box is part of a plank from the starboard gunnel of the Victory severed by a 36 lb shot in the Glorious Battle of Trafalgar 21 Octob. 1805.'
Relics | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Subjects: | Victory (1765) Horatio Nelson boxes | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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