1 Crown - Elizabeth II HMS Victory

Tristan da Cunha's geographic isolation — the most remote permanently inhabited archipelago on Earth, sitting roughly equidistant between South Africa and South America — gives its commemorative program an odd coherence. The island's dependency status under the British Crown makes HMS Victory a natural subject, though the ship itself never came within thousands of miles of the South Atlantic.

Victory was already a museum ship at Portsmouth by 2008, having been in continuous commission since 1778. She remains the world's oldest naval vessel still on the active list.