On the final night, HMS Victory deputy project director Patrizia Pierazzo said: “The removal of the mizzen mast and bowsprit was a great success and lessons learnt from the foremast removal earlier in the week really helped the team.
“This was a precise operation that required input from a wide range of specialists, and we’re very pleased with the outcome.”
Executive director of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, Andrew Baines, said it was the first time Victory was without all its masts since the early 1890s.
He said the work was carried out overnight so the team could “work safely and without interruption for several hours at a time”.
