In honour of Trafalgar Day, I present one of the gun decks on the restored HMS Victory at Portsmouth. Cramped, isn’t it? And imagine the noise…

The guns are replicas, but they have one that they say was actually used at Trafalgar.

There’s a little plaque on the deck where Admiral Lord Nelson is supposed to have been shot, by an enemy sniper. ‘Aim for the one-armed guy with the shiny gongs!’