Collection of letters and newspaper articles relating to the restoration of HMS VICTORY including letters from Sir Phillip Watts, Admiral Blackett, Turner, Proffesor Geoffrey Callender. There is also some minutes of the VICTORY subcommittee Jun-Jul 1924.

Administrative / biographical background
Robert Lionel Foster (1870-1952) of Egton Manor. In 1922 HMS VICTORY was placed into dry dock for extensive repair guided by the Society for Nautical Research. She was placed in dry-docked at Portsmouth following the launch of a national appeal - the 'Save the Victory Fund' - to restore and preserve her in her Trafalgar condition, shorn of later additions. The ship was refloated for the last time on 8 April 1925 to adjust her cradle and so that her waterline was level with the top of the dock.