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An early 20th century colour print showing a stern view of the Royal Navy warship HMS Victory, once flagship of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. (Library of Congress)

A colourised photograph of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood. The ship was the most famous vessel in the Royal Navy in the years before the Second World War. Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941.

The bow of the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought battleship, built in 1906 and used in the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

A photograph of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland (May-June 1916) during the First World War (1914-18). (Imperial War Museums)

Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) was an English navigator and hydrographer. He was the first person to map the coastal outline of Australia in 1801-1803, following his circumnavigation of the 7.692 million square kilometres (2.96...

Detail from an 1807 painting by Nicholas Pocock showing HMS Victory, once flagship of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)

An etching by Australian maritime historian Geoffrey Ingleton (1908-1998) from 1937 and showing the HMS Investigator. The Investigator was commanded by Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) and circumnavigated New Holland (Australia) in...

Destruction of the schooner Gaspé in the waters of Rhode Island 1772, engraving by John McNevin, depicting the Gaspee Affair, during which the Royal Navy schooner HMS Gaspee was burned by American colonists on 10 June 1772...

Officers of the USS Chesapeake surrender their swords to the officers of HMS Leopard in the aftermath of the Chesapeake-Leopard affair of 22 June 1807. Illustration from Story of one...

Construction of the sloop-of-war HMS Sir Isaac Brock at York, Upper Canada. Named after a fallen British general, the ship was intended to give Britain superiority on Lake Ontario; it was still unfinished...