HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 247 years of service as of 2025, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. [Note 1] She was ordered for the Royal Navy in 1758, during the Seven Years' War and laid down in 1759.

2022年10月25日 · Explore HMS Victory : a deck by deck guide. Publication date 2005 Topics Victory (Ship) Publisher [England] : Phrogg Design Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 189.4M . …

Rarity - Not in themselves rare, but they form a major part of Victory’s unique deck structure. Completeness - Almost 100%; Many of Victory’s 173 pillars are original to launch. They sit upright between decks and provide additional support for the deck beams.

HMS Victory had a crew of 820 men commanded by Captain Thomas Masterman Hardy. There were 9 Commissioned Officers, 21 Midshipmen and 77 Non-commissioned Warrant and Petty Officers, the rest of the crew comprised of Able and Ordinary Seaman, Landsmen, Supernumeries and …

Letters concerning the restoration of HMS VICTORY - includes plan of 'Proposed Accommodation Ladder' to HMS VICTORY, prepared in accordance with Callender's letter of 29 May 1928. (Manuscript) (SNR/7/14)

Victory (1765) Date made: 1889 Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Measurements: Sheet: 185 x 234 mm Plate: 137 x 186 mm Parts: Naval Scrap Book belonging to Edward Alfred Dingley (Album) H.M.S. Victory (Print) (PAI3063)

Meet the HMS Victory, one of the most famous warships in history, and flagship of Vice Admiral Nelson at his decisive victory over the Franco-Spanish Combined Fleet at Trafalgar in 1805. We look at the crucial role played by Britain's Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, before beginning a deck-by-deck exploration of HMS Victory, a first-rate ...

2019年3月8日 · The upper gun deck of HMS Victory, showing her 12-pounder cannons and deck support pillars. Along both sides, a single row of 12-pounder cannons was present, together with the gun crews that operated them.

Built with three decks, three elaborately decorated open galleries at the stern and armed with up to 110 bronze cannon, Victory was the last British First Rate to be armed entirely with bronze guns. This man of war was constructed at Portsmouth Dockyard by master shipwright Joseph Allin between 1726 and 1737.

This, the second episode, looks at the gun decks where the sailors lived and fought Victory’s 104 guns; the first episode looked at the lowest two decks, the hold and the orlop deck; and episode three will look at everything open to the elements – the …