Officials at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard welcomed a royal visitor amid the ongoing restoration of HMS Victory. The Princess Royal was welcomed at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard yesterday (May 9).

Simon Williams, project manager for HMS Victory The Big Repair, said the scheme has a long timeframe due to it being a conservation project that goes far beyond the restoration of the vessel.

The Royal Navy’s HMS York on the last leg of her five-month ... a national holiday commemorating victory at the Battle of Iquique in 1879. With two Chilean pilots aboard it was only right ...