Trafalgar Night aboard HMS VICTORY

The Second Sea Lord, Vice Admiral Tony Radakin CB, hosted a dinner for affiliates of HMS PRINCE OF WALES at Admiralty House and aboard HMS VICTORY, the flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson.  Lord-Lieutenant for Bristol Mrs Peaches Golding OBE and Mr James Durie from the West of England Initiative of Business West were among the guests.  Other guests included Lord-Lieutenant for Merseyside Mark Blundell (representing Liverpool), representatives from Greenwich Hospital Trust and the Goldsmiths’ Livery Company as well as Brigadier Graeme Fraser RM (Naval Regional Commander for Wales and Western England).  Dinner was served in Admiral Lord Nelson’s cabin on the 213rd anniversary of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar.  Despite being mortally wounded Nelson lived long enough to learn that, due to his instructions of how to fight the battle, England defeated the French fleet and established England’s legacy as a naval power.  HMS VICTORY is the flagship of the First Sea Lord and, as a national monument, is a major tourist attraction in Portsmouth.