Now on to the next phase in the multi-year project to protect and restore HMS Victory. With the ship stabilized with her new supports feeding data second by send on how she is sitting and where stresses can be relieved or supporting pressure gently increased. So now the shipwrights are working towards the much-needed restoration of her hull planking. Much depends on what they and their team of shipwrights find as the shell planking comes off – what state are the ribs are in, and where are the needs for restoration most pressing. Only one way to find out – remove the planking and look. You might think modern electric gadgets would make this easier, but in fact it requires many tools and techniques recognizable to the 18th century shipwrights who built Victory. The prime one: muscle power. The new planking: oak.
HEARTS OF OAK
21 April 2023
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About Rob
Rob is a TV producer, reporter and camera operator with 30 years’ experience at the BBC, Channel 4 and ITN, in news, factual and documentary production. He is a four times award winner, whose awards include a coveted Royal Television Society award for his work on Channel 4 News. His association with The Maritime Foundation goes back to 1995, when he won the first Desmond Wettern Maritime Media Award for a series of reports that led to a major documentary on the loss of the bulk carrier Derbyshire.