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HMS Victory is the Royal Navy's most famous warship. The Victory is the only surviving warship that fought in the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. Now moored in permanent dry dock in Portsmouth, UK

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The Courage To Do The Impossible Lies In The Hearts of Men", is the tagline for the movie "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World". | | Plotline: During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, "HMS Surprise", and a much larger French warship, the "Acheron", with greater fire power, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. While the naval battle sequences are quite fantastic, the film is successful because director, Weir, chose to build the story to get to know the men who are locked aboard the tight quarters of a small ship and how they interact everyday. | | The ship featured in the movie is the subject of this photo, and yes I was able to walk around inside of it to get a feel for how small the ship actually was. To me, it is inconceivable that 197 men could live, work (and die) in such tight quarters
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