HMS Agamemnon - Navigating the Legend

Mary Montagu-Scott, director of the Buckler’s Hard Maritime Museum will tell the story of Lord Nelson’s favourite ship, built and launched in 1781 and after a very distinguished 28-year Naval service record, including the Battle of Traflagar, ended up wrecked in 1809 on the River Plate off Uruguay.

Mary has recently returned from diving on the wreck with a team of maritime archaeologists from the UK and Uruguay, who seek to record and preserve the wreck and its famous memory, before she is lost by time and tide. Mary has recently fulfilled her long held dream to see the wreck, those huge timbers, made from Beaulieu Oak planted around us in the 17th century, survive against all the odds, miles from home under the sea.

What does the wreck reveal? And how can we protect her? What can we learn about her, the only surviving Buckler’s hard built ship in the world?

Mary will tell the story of all the 6 Royal Navy “Agamemons" including the latest and soon to be launched this summer, a new Astute class hunter killer nuclear submarine.