A team of historic paint experts has recovered hundreds of ... admiral's and captain's cabins would have been painted light blue. HMS Victory first saw battle in 1778 in the first Battle of ...

“It’s a work of art,” says O’Sullivan. He believes even nowadays ship builders would struggle to replicate parts of HMS Victory. Over the centuries she’s undergone maintenance, but ...

HMS Victory is undergoing her biennial painting at the National Museum of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Since 2015, the ship has been painted in the colours she had at the time ...

A £35 million conservation project to renovate HMS Victory which will include ... the recently completed and new state-of-the-art support system.' Victory has been undergoing a 20-year period ...

After extensive research by experts, HMS Victory has been returned to the colour scheme she had at the time of Trafalgar in 1805. Some say there's a definite hint of pink....as Richard Jones reports.

For more than two centuries, Peter Monamy’s dramatic painting was one of the few images available of the tragic end of HMS Victory, which mysteriously disappeared, along with its crew of 1,100 ...

How HMS Victory will look when the painting is finished Dave Bishop, a painter in the Historic Ships team, is no stranger to painting Victory. He said: ‘Last time we painted her it took nearly ...

Conservationists examined 72 layers of paint from an original timber part under a microscope, and discovered the ship Nelson sailed to Trafalgar was actually a terracotta or pink hue. HMS Victory ...

open image in gallery HMS Victory's recently 'rediscovered' early 19th-century figurehead sculpture (coat of arms, crown and two angels) featured in this painting of the historic vessel undergoing ...

“It’s a work of art,” says O’Sullivan. He believes even nowadays ship builders would struggle to replicate parts of HMS Victory. Over the centuries she’s undergone maintenance, but ...

The nation’s most famous ship, HMS Victory, is to be painted green ... is no stranger to painting Victory. He said: 'Last time we painted her it took nearly five months, but this time I reckon ...