Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent Size:XS: 40 x 20cm with decorative moulding on front

with decorative moulding on front

St Paul's church with a semi-circular columned entrance

With the River Thames in the distance on the right

guns are fired and flags waved

Red Primrose with surrounding leaves

Launch of HMS 'Trafalgar', Woolwich Royal Dockyard, Kent Size:XS: 40 x 20cm with decorative moulding on frontLaunch 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.