PORTSMOUTH, United Kingdom — HMS Victory has survived the cannonballs of Napoleon's navy, being rammed by another warship, a World War II bomb, even UK navy plans to scrap her.
But nearly 260 years after it was launched, Victory — emblem of British maritime heritage and scene of naval hero Horatio Nelson's death during the Battle of Trafalgar — is facing another equally deadly threat: the deathwatch beetle.
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