The 37-year-old said when the National Museum of The Royal Navy started ... UK have a lot of 'ancient' oak - this timber is often hard to use in ship building. HMS Victory was built in 1759 ...

Painstaking engineering to conserve HMS Victory for future generations is “continuing at pace”. The Royal ... oak frames which no one knew had survived. “We’re still adding to the ship ...

Rock stars of the beetle world” that were found gnawing on the historic timbers of HMS Victory are on display to the public.