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Victory | 17 | ||
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Nominal Guns | 100 | BWAS-1714 | |
Nationality | Great Britain | ||
Operator | Royal Navy | ||
Ordered | 13.12.1758 | BWAS-1714 | |
Keel Laid Down | 23.7.1759 | BWAS-1714 | |
Named | 30.10.1760 | BWAS-1714 | |
Launched | 7.5.1765 | BWAS-1714 | |
First Commissioned | 9.3.1778 | BWAS-1714 | |
How acquired | Purpose built | BWAS-1714 | |
Shipyard | Chatham Dockyard - Chatham | BWAS-1714 | |
Designed by | Sir Thomas Slade (1703-1771) | BWAS-1714 | |
Constructor | Edward Allin (d.1795) | BWAS-1714 | |
Category | First Rate | BWAS-1714 | |
Ship Type | Ship of the Line | BWAS-1714 | |
Sailing Rig | Ship Rigged | BWAS-1714 | |
Still in Existance | 2019 | BWAS-1714 |
Sailed from Chatham
BWAS-1714Paid off at Portsmouth .
W009Paid off at Portsmouth
BWAS-1793Sailed for The Mediterranean Sea
BWAS-1714Recommissioned as a Hospital ship at Chatham
BWAS-1714Sailed for The Mediterranean Sea
BWAS-1714Paid off at Chatham
W009Evacuation of La Coruña
BWAS-1714Placed in ordinary at Portsmouth
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Dates | Fleet | Fleet Commander | Source | 9.1782-12.1782 | Fleet for the relief of Gibraltar 1782 | Lord Richard Howe (4th Viscount Howe) (1725/26-1799) |
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 31 boys.
Also within this complement was a detachment of 146 Royal Marines from the Chatham Division, commanded by Captain Charles Adair
Apart from the 700 English, Irish, Scots and Welsh, 18 different nationalities were represented on the Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar.
She suffered some of the worst casualties of the Allied Fleet at the battle with 57 of her crew killed or dying of their wounds a few days later, and a further 102 wounded.