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Extracted from BBC News and from National Sea Cadets websites:      Tuesday 28th June 2005

The Queen and Prince Philip conducted a massive international fleet review of 167 ships in the Solent to mark the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. More than 250,000 spectators then watched a fly-past by maritime aircraft and sail-pasts ahead of the evening's mock Napoleonic battle.

The day was part of a series of celebrations marking Britain's 1805 victory over France and Spain. It took about two hours for Endurance to sail up and down the lines of anchored vessels.

The 167 naval, merchant and tall ships came from 36 countries.

Photo of tall ship

Above: J Cooke sent this photograph in to the BBC. It shows one of the many tall ships taking part in the celebrations.

Right: M Thornton sent this picture in to the BBC. It shows the sun setting over Portsmouth harbour.

Photo of sunset over Portsmouth harbour

TS Royalist in mock battle

 

Left: In a mock-up of the battle and with TS ROYALIST in the thick of it, fireworks - carefully set and arranged to represent gunfire - allowed the opposing fleets to seem to fire broadsides at each other. Smoke and noise and flame everywhere gave a hint of the real horror and terror of that day.

 

 

Trafalgar ships compared: Nelson's HMS Victory versus the French Le Redoutable.

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