Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent courtesan Scene of a bull rampaging

Scene of a bull rampaging through Smithfield Market

Animal skeletons at the Hunterian Museum

Sir James Shaw

holding an oar on the boom of which is inscribed 'Moll Muggins

View of Cheapside as seen from a rooftop

Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent courtesan Scene of a bull rampagingLaunch of HMS 'Trafalgar', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent, 1841. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were among those attending the ceremony, which was watched by an estimated 500,000 people. 'Trafalgar' was a 120 gun first rate ship of the line. Woolwich Dockyard was founded by Henry VIII in 1512 to build his flagship 'Henri Grace a Dieu' (the 'Great Harry'), the largest warship of its time.