Nelson

[panthertom]

What was the name of the barge that carried Nelson's body up the Thames?

[shaneystar2]

The Royal Barge.. Jubilant.

[shaneystar2]

No scrap that...must learn to read posts. that was the one in the Trafaglar recreation.

[La Diva]

The royal barge of Charles II, lent for the funeral by George III.

The barge was preserved as a Nelson relic and is now displayed in the Royal Naval Museum in Portsmouth.

[Grunty]

It seems that the barge either had no name, or is little known. As stated above, it is at the Royal Naval Museum, alongside HMS Victory. Their contact details are

Royal Naval Museum
HM Naval Base (PP66)
PO1 3NH
Telephone: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]

[Octavius]

As suggested above, I think it is just knwon as The Funeral Barge ... etc.

nelson

His body was placed inside four coffins. The inner one was of wood from the mainmast of the French flagship 'L'Orient', destroyed at the Battle of the Nile (1798). This was cased in lead with an outer wooden coffin, the whole having lain in state in a gilt outer casket designed by the Ackermann brothers. Thus enclosed the body was carried from Greenwich to Whitehall Stairs on a black-canopied funeral barge and was accompanied by over sixty boats including the barge of the Lord Mayor, admiralty and city livery barges.

[Peachtree]

100% correct, Jubilant was the name of the barge that carried Nelson remains up the Thames