Nelson remembered by Warrington Club

MEMBERS of the Warrington Club commemorated Trafalgar Day with a special dinner at their premises on Bold Street in the town.
Hosted by Chairman Richard Shaw members raised a glass of “grog” to the memory of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson who was mortally wounded during the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21 1805, becoming one of Britain’s greatest war heroes.
Trafalgar Day was widely commemorated by parades, dinners and other events throughout much of the British Empire in the 19th century and early 20th century.
It is still widely celebrated in navies of the Commonwealth of Nations.
The battle was the most decisive British naval victory of the war. Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Pierre-Charles Villeneuve off the south-west coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar. The Franco-Spanish
fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost.
Picture shows members of the Warrington Club raising a glass to the memory of Nelson.