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16/09/2005
Thames flotilla marks Nelson's funeral
The historic water-borne funeral procession held for Admiral Lord Nelson is being re-enacted on the Thames today.
Part of the SeaBritain 2005 and the Trafalgar Festival’s bicentennial commemorations, a flotilla of boats manned by volunteers will recreate Admiral Lord Nelson’s grand water-borne funeral procession along the River Thames, following the route from Greenwich to Westminster taken by the original procession on 8th January 1806.
The flotilla includes the Jubilant, HMS Victory’s cutter, which will act as the funeral barge, as well as shallops and barges from the City Livery Companies, and traditional Thames cutters.
The crews, on the 40 vessels forming the Flotilla proper, are wearing period costume and the boats are dressed to ensure the procession closely reflects the appearance of the original spectacle.
The boats are carrying representatives of those offices and organisations present in 1806, which today include the Lord Mayors of London and Westminster, the Chief of the Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West. Among the party are descendents of the sailors at the Battle of Trafalgar and members of the Nelson family.
In place of a coffin, Jubilant is carrying the New Trafalgar Dispatch, a document that pays homage to all the heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar and honours the acts of humanity shown after victory and stresses the importance of the sea to everyone.
Later the Dispatch will be presented to St Paul's Cathedral where Nelson was laid to rest.
The New Trafalgar Dispatch is a symbolic re-creation of the dramatic delivery of Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood’s famous dispatch bearing the first news of the British victory off Cape Trafalgar and the death of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson.
(SP/KMcA)
Part of the SeaBritain 2005 and the Trafalgar Festival’s bicentennial commemorations, a flotilla of boats manned by volunteers will recreate Admiral Lord Nelson’s grand water-borne funeral procession along the River Thames, following the route from Greenwich to Westminster taken by the original procession on 8th January 1806.
The flotilla includes the Jubilant, HMS Victory’s cutter, which will act as the funeral barge, as well as shallops and barges from the City Livery Companies, and traditional Thames cutters.
The crews, on the 40 vessels forming the Flotilla proper, are wearing period costume and the boats are dressed to ensure the procession closely reflects the appearance of the original spectacle.
The boats are carrying representatives of those offices and organisations present in 1806, which today include the Lord Mayors of London and Westminster, the Chief of the Naval Staff and First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Alan West. Among the party are descendents of the sailors at the Battle of Trafalgar and members of the Nelson family.
In place of a coffin, Jubilant is carrying the New Trafalgar Dispatch, a document that pays homage to all the heroes of the Battle of Trafalgar and honours the acts of humanity shown after victory and stresses the importance of the sea to everyone.
Later the Dispatch will be presented to St Paul's Cathedral where Nelson was laid to rest.
The New Trafalgar Dispatch is a symbolic re-creation of the dramatic delivery of Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood’s famous dispatch bearing the first news of the British victory off Cape Trafalgar and the death of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson.
(SP/KMcA)
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