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A retired sailor is finally completing his painstaking model of HMS Victory - 51 years after he started it. Michael Byard first began work on the five feet long replica of Nelson's flagship in 1969.

The exhibit is the world's only known scale model of HMS Victory from the time of the Battle of Trafalgar A scale model of HMS Victory made more than 200 years ago has been put on permanent display.

A retired sailor has completed a 54-year quest to create a five foot model of HMS Victory equipped with gun ports and life boats. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The News, you can get ...

A man is putting the finishing touches to a model of HMS Victory he started working on about half a century ago. Michael Byard, 80, from Oxfordshire, began creating the replica of Horatio Nelson's ...