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Dive onto seabed at site of Victory mooring
Courses and Posters by the Friends
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Artefacts recovered from the dive onto Victory's anchorage site near Gosport
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Location: City of Southampton
This year we celebrate Britain's historic maritime past marking the 200th anniversary of the SeaBritain celebrations. To mark this occasion the Friends of HWTMA have launched the project entitled Dive onto Victory where the aim is to bring together the last two centuries of maritime activity from the victory at Trafalgar to the present day.
With the help of Friends of the Trust artefacts brought from the Gosport mooring site ranging from early 19th Century to the present day, and a video, were displayed in a room next to the magnificent Victory sail. This allowed us a prime position kindly donated to us by the Royal Naval Museum.
Posters and a heritage trail leaflet were also produced. The heritage trail proved popular during the festival. Children were invited to follow the trail around the dockyard answering the questions and returning their forms for the chance to win a family trip to the Isle of Wight donated by Wightlink. Professor Archie O'Logy was on hand to mark the start of the trail.
A major objective of this project is to get people to come forward with their maritime experiences. We are keen to follow up stories from anyone with the own or a family maritime tale to tell, this will form part of a travelling display and education pack. One lady from London came to see us with a fascinating story of how she is related to John Quillian who served on Victory at trafalger. She had her whole family tree for us to view.
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