Commander: Captain Thomas Masterman Hardy
Flag, Mediterranean Fleet: Admiral Horatio Nelson
Victory at Trafalgar: a painting
by Turner, the greatest English landscape painter, from
www.kokopelli.org.uk/
The Statistics
1st Rate 100 guns.
- L/B/D: 226.5 × 52 × 21.5 dph (69m × 15.8m × 6.6m)
- Tons: 2,162
- Hull: wood
- Complement: 850
- Designer: Sir Thomas Slade
- Launch: Chatham Dockyard; 1765
- Commissioned: 1778
Armament
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THE FIVE "VICTORY'S"
http://www.paintedships.com/fivevictorys.asp
| No. | Launched | Details | Battle Honors |
| 1st | 1559 | Originally a merchantman, the Christopher, purchased for the Navy in 1561 and re-named the Victory. Rebuilt 1586. 800 tons: 34 guns: 300 mariners: 34 gunners: 400 soldiers. 1588 Flag of Sir John Hawkins. | 1588 The Armada. |
| 2nd | 1620 | 875 tons: 42 guns: 270 men. Designed by Phineas Pett. 1627. Expedition to La Rochelle 1635. Ship Money Fleet 1665. Rebuilt. 1029 tons: 82 guns. |
1652 Dover 1653 Portland 1653 Gabbard 1653 Scheveningen 1666 Orfordness |
| 3rd | 1675 | 1486 tons: 100 guns: 754 men. Originally the Royal James, renamed the Victory in 1691. | 1692 Bartfleur |
| 4th | 1737 | 1020 tons: 110 guns: 900 men. Built at Portsmouth. Lost in the Channel with all hands, 1744. | |
| 5th | 1765 | 2162 tons: 104 guns: 850 men. Built at Chatham. The 5th (and present) H.M.S. Victory, now in No. 2 Dock at Portsmouth, and is the Flagship of Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command. |
1781 Ushant 1797 St. Vincent 1805 Trafalgar |
