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HMS Victory

• She was ordered in1758
• Laid down at Chatham Dockyard 1759
• Launched 1765
• Commissioned in 1778
• Designed to carry 104 guns. However in 1808 reduced to 98 but was reclassed as a 104 1817.
• Displacement 3550 tonnes (Type 23 Frigate 4900 tonnes and a Type 45 Destroyer 7350)
• Length 227feet overall, beam 52feet.  (Type 23 Frigate 436 feet by 53 feet and a Type 45 Destroyer 499 feet by 59 feet)
• Compliment 850 men, (destroyer 190 men and frigate 185).
• Although Lindsey was appointed as first Captain, Keppel replaced him in the same year.

• Battles
  1. First battle of Ushant 1778
  2. Second battle of Ushant 1781
  3. Cape  St Vincent 1797
  4. Battle of Trafalgar 1805

 

• 1798 she was unfit for service and converted as a hospital ship at Chatham.
• 1799 HMS Impregnable was lost off Chichester and the Victory replaced her.
• In 1800 work was started to update her and was completed in 1803.
• In 1803 Nelson first joined the ship with Sutton as the Captain.
• Her active career ended in 1812 and was moored in Portsmouth as a depot ship.
• During 1889 she was fitted as a school of Telegraphy until 1904.
• 1921 a fund started to save her.
• The next year she was moved to No.2 dock in Portsmouth.
• She was damaged in 1941.
• And today she is the oldest commissioned warship in the world.