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M Qq Victory. HMS Victory HMS Victory is now open Prebooking is essential On 7th May 1765 HMS Victory was floated out of the Old Single Dock in Chatham&#39s Royal Dockyard Over an unusually long service she would gain renown leading fleets in the American War of Independence the French Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic War.

ConstructionEarly ServiceReconstructionNelson and TrafalgarAfter TrafalgarExternal LinksIn December 1758 Pitt the Elder in his role as head of the British government placed an order for the building of 12 ships including a firstrate ship that would become Victory During the 18th century Victory was one of ten firstrate ships to be constructed The outline plans were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756 and the naval architect chosen to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who at the time was the Surveyor of the Navy She was designed to carry at least 100 guns The commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction The keel was laid on 23 July 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No 2 Dock and now Victory Dock) and a name Victory was chosen in October 1760 In 1759 the Seven Years&#39 War was going well for Britain land victories had been won at Quebec and Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay It was the Annus Mirabilis or Wonderful Year a First battle of Ushant Victory was commissioned (put on active duty) in March 1778 under Captain John Lindsay He held that position until May 1778 when Admiral Augustus Keppel made her his flagship and appointed Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain) Keppel put to sea from Spithead on 9 July 1778 with a force of around twentynine ships of the line and on 23 July sighted a French fleet of roughly equal force 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant The French admiral L Second Battle of Ushant In March 1780 Victory&#39s hull was sheathed with 3923 sheets of copper below the waterline to protect it against shipworm On 2 December 1781 the ship now commanded by Captain Henry Cromwell and bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt sailed with eleven other ships of the line a 50gun fourthrate and five frigates to intercept a French convoy that had sailed from Brest on 10 December Not knowing that the convoy was protected by twentyone ships of the line under the comman Siege of Gibraltar Victory&#39s armament was slightly upgraded in 1782 with the replacement of all of her 6pounders with 12pounder cannon Later she also carried two carronade guns firing 68lb (31 kg) round shot In October 1782 Victory under Admiral Richard Howe was the fleet flagship of a powerful escort flotilla for a convoy of transports which resupplied Gibraltar in the event of a blockade by the French and Spanish navies No resistance was encountered on entering the straits and the supplies were succe On her return to England Victory was examined for seaworthiness and found to have significant weaknesses in her stern timbers She was declared unfit for active service and left anchored off Chatham Dockyard In December 1798 she was ordered to be converted to a hospital ship to hold wounded French and Spanish prisoners of war However on 8 October 1799 HMS Impregnable was lost off Chichester having run aground on her way back to Portsmouth after escorting a convoy to Lisbon She could not be refloated and so was stripped and dismantled Now short of a threedecked ship of the line the Admiralty decided to recondition Victory Work started in 1800 but as it proceeded an increasing number of defects were found and the repairs developed into a very extensive reconstruction The original estimate was £23500 but the final cost was £70933Extra gun ports were added taking her from 100 guns to 104 and her magazine lined with copper The open galleries along her stern were remo ViceAdmiral Nelson hoisted his flag in Victory on 18 May 1803 with Samuel Sutton as his flag captain The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Nelson (Volume 5 page 68) record that “Friday 20 May am  Nelson  came on board Saturday 21st (iethe afternoon of the 20th) Unmoored ship and weighed Made sail out of Spithead  when HMShip Amphion joined and proceeded to sea in company with us” – Victory&#39s Log Victory was under orders to meet up with Cornwallis off Brest but after 24 hours of searching failed to find him Nelson anxious to reach the Mediterranean without delay decided to transfer to Amphionoff Ushant The Dispatches and Letters (see above) record on page 71 “Tuesday 24 May (ie 23 May pm) Hove to at 740 Out Boats The Admiral shifted his flag to the Amphion At 750 Lord Nelson came on board the Amphion and hoisted his flag and made sail – Log” On 28 May Captain Sutton captured the French Ambuscade of 32 guns bound for Rochefort Victory Final years afloat The Admiralty Board considered Victory too old and in too great a disrepair to be restored as a firstrate ship of the line In November 1807 she was relegated to secondrate with the removal of two 32pounder cannon and replacement of her middle deck 24pounders with 18pounders obtained from other laidup ships She was recommissioned as a troopship between December 1810 and April 1811 In 1812 she was relocated to the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour off Gosport for service as a floating de Victorian era In 1831 the Admiralty issued orders for Victory to be broken up and her timbers reused in other vessels A public outcry against the destruction of so famous a ship led to the order being held in abeyance and Victory was left largely forgotten at a Portsmouth mooring The Admiralty officially designated the ageing vessel as a tender for the port admiral&#39s flagship HMS Wellington and permitted civilian visitors to come aboard for tours The ship briefly returned to the public gaze on 18 Jul In dry dock By 1921 the ship was in a very poor state and a public Save the Victory campaign was started with shipping magnate Sir James Caird as a major contributor On 12 January 1922 her condition was so poor that she would no longer stay afloat and had to be moved into No 2 dock at Portsmouth the oldest dry dock in the world still in useA naval survey revealed that between a third and a half of her internal fittings required replacement Her steering equipment had also been removed or destroye HMS VictoryOfficial websiteHMS VictoryIllustrated article about HMS Victory.

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