Thursday 25 September 2025 06:30pm
HMS Agamemnon Mary Montagu- Scott  ::  Meetings

Location : Beaulieu Village Hall

Mary Montagu-Scott, director of the Buckler’s Hard Maritime Museum, will tell the story of how Lord Nelson’s favourite ship, built and launched at Buckler’s Hard in 1781, ended up wrecked in 1809 on the River Plate off Uruguay.
A team of maritime archaeologists from the UK and Uruguay, seek to record and preserve the wreck before she is lost by time and tide.

Mary has dived on the wreck and seen its Beaulieu Oak timbers which survive against all the odds under the sea.

Thursday 13 November 2025 06:30pm
Anglo-Saxon Southampton Andy Skinner, Sea City Museum, Southampton  ::  Meetings

Location : Beaulieu Village Hall

Little is known about Anglo-Saxon times (400 to 1066 AD). During this period Southampton was an important trading town.

Jutes from what is now called Denmark settled in the area around the Isle of Wight and the New Forest from the mid-400s. The region was ruled by the Kings of Wessex from the 500s onwards. From the mid-800s Vikings from Norway mounted a succession of often brutal raids on England and overcame Southampton from the sea. The history that is known makes a fascinating story.