In 1637, HMS Sovereign of the Seas was launched, featuring the largest and most costly figurehead in the history of the Royal Navy. A huge gilded figure of the Anglo-Saxon King Edgar mounted on a ...

This is a photo of the figurehead on the 3/16” scale model of the HMS Royal George, a first rate 108 British gunship built in 1756, that is on display at the Maritime Museum at Channel Islands ...

A restored figurehead from a 19th century Royal Navy ship, HMS Calcutta, has begun its journey from Devon to the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. The ship was built from teak in ...

Two specialist conservation teams have spent more than two years working on the figureheads, which are on loan from the National Museums of the Royal Navy. The largest is King Billy, a 13ft-tall ...

A wooden figurehead of the oldest warship still afloat is to be restored. The so-called Turbaned Man was carved for HMS Trincomalee, which itself was built of teak for the Royal Navy in India in 1817.

The 10ft-tall wooden piece of art is from HMS Victory ... National Museum of the Royal Navy - which now tends to Victory - launched an investigation into the wrecked figurehead in its vaults.

The spectacular ten foot tall early 19th-century wooden figurehead is from the historic Royal Navy warship HMS Victory, the vessel which had been commanded by Admiral Nelson at the Battle of ...

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A collection of 19th-century wooden figureheads from ... National Museums of the Royal Navy. The largest is King Billy, a 13ft-tall figure of William IV carved for HMS Royal William in 1833.

a 13ft-tall figure of William IV carved for HMS Royal William in 1833. Phenomenal 😲 This image really gives a sense of the scale of our largest Royal Naval ship's figurehead Royal William ...