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HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth Dockyard, and launched on 23 February 1737.
HMS Victory (1695), a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched in 1675 as Royal James, renamed 7 March 1691. Great repair 1694-1695. Burnt by accident in February 1721. HMS Victory (1737), a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line launched in 1737. She was wrecked in 1744 in the Western Approaches to the English Channel, and found again in 2008.
HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years of service as of 2024, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. Victory is best known for her role as Horatio Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805.
A £35 million conservation project to renovate HMS Victory including replacing rotting planks has been announced on the 100th anniversary of the warship being brought into dry dock.
The first of these was HMS Ardent, which ushered in the Ardent-class. Slade also designed smaller vessels, such as the 10-gun Board of Customs cutter, HMS Sherborne. HMS Victory in Portsmouth Harbour with a coal ship alongside, 1828. Etching by Edward William Cooke based on his own drawing. Victory was his most famous
Pages in category "1730s ships". The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . List of ship launches in 1730. List of ship launches in 1731. List of ship launches in 1732. List of ship launches in 1733. List of ship launches in 1734. List of ship launches in 1735.
Victory class (Slade) Victory 100 (1765) – "great repair" 1801–03, flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar 1805, 1805–08 modernised and re-rated as 98-gun second rate, hulked at Portsmouth 1824, dry-docked 1922, converted during the 1920s to her 1805 appearance, preserved in commission at Portsmouth as the only remaining ship of the line [ 5 ]
3 October – HMS Victory (1737) is wrecked on the Casquets in the Channel Islands with the loss of around 900 lives. 28 December–8 January 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Quadruple Alliance of Britain, Austria, Saxony-Poland and the United Netherlands is formed against Prussia. [3] Undated. Northampton General Hospital ...