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2. HMS Victory - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Pyro Plastics Corporation - Wikipedia

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   Plastic model cars, motorcycles, aircraft, ships, military vehicles, animal and human figures. The Pyro Plastics Corporation was an American manufacturing company based in Union Township, NJ and popular during the 1950s and 1960s that produced toys and plastic model kits. Some of the scale models manufactured and commercialised by Pyro were ...

4. 32-pounder gun - Wikipedia

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   6.3–6.41 in (160–163 mm) Muzzle velocity. ~487 m/s [1] The 32-pounder guns (and the French 30-pounders) were sets of heavy-caliber pieces of artillery mounted on warships in the last century of the Age of sail, during the 18th and early 19th centuries. It was usually the most powerful armament on a warship.

5. HMS Victory (1737) - Wikipedia

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   100 guns: Gundeck: 28 × 42-pdrs. Middle gundeck: 28 × 24-pdrs. Upper gundeck: 28 × 12-pdrs. Quarterdeck: 12 × 6-pdrs. Forecastle: 4 × 6-pdrs. 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 ...

6. Ship of the line - Wikipedia

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   Ship of the line. A 1784 painting of French ship of the line Saint-Esprit by Nicholas Pocock. Two fleets in their line of battle during the Battle of Cuddalore. HMS Hercule as depicted in her fight against the frigate Poursuivante. A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid ...

7. List of ships named HMS Victory - Wikipedia

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   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.