The Greenwich Hospital in London was founded in 1694 as the Royal Naval Hospital for sailors.
The charity still exists; though no longer based at the site which is now the Old Royal Naval College. It is a Royal Charity for the benefit of seafarers and their dependents, with the Secretary of State for Defence acting as the Crown's sole Trustee.
The hospital at Greenwich was established as a residential home for injured sailors, on the model of Les...
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The Greenwich Hospital in London was founded in 1694 as the Royal Naval Hospital for sailors.
The charity still exists; though no longer based at the site which is now the Old Royal Naval College. It is a Royal Charity for the benefit of seafarers and their dependents, with the Secretary of State for Defence acting as the Crown's sole Trustee.
The hospital at Greenwich was established as a residential home for injured sailors, on the model of Les Invalides and the Chelsea Hospital. It occupied its riverside site on the south bank of the river Thames in Greenwich, London for over 170 years, closing to pensioners in 1869.
On the 5 January 1806 Lord Nelson's body was laid in state in the Painted Hall of the Greenwich Hospital before being taken up the river Thames to St Paul's Cathedral for a State funeral.
The remains of thousands of sailors and officers, including those who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar were removed from the Hospital site in 1875 and reinterred in East Greenwich...
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