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| Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson |
HMS Victory
A look inside HMS Victory as Lord Nelson's 250-year-old
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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy launched in 1765. She is best known as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
He served during the American war for independence, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. It was the flagship of Keppel during the battle of Ouessant in 1778, that of the Jervis during the batlle of the cape St.Vincent and finally taht of the Admiral Nelson during the battle of Trafalgar. AFter 1824n the ship was removed from the active service and put in a dry dock in 1922 to Portsmouth. Currently he sis protected as ship museum.
The ship embarked on board a crew of 850 people. The HMS Victory is a ship of the line with great mensaruation. A length of 57m for a displacement of 3,500 tons, the maximum speed of the boat is 8 to 9 knots ( approximaly 16km/h).
The HMS Victory was armed with smooth bore, cast iron cannon.
Initially she carried thiry 42 ponders (19kg) on her lower deck, twenty-eight 24 pounders (11kg) on her middle deck and thirty 12 pounders (5kg) on her upper deck.
"850 people lives in the boat"
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| Inside of HMS Victory |
Panorama HMS Victory
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| The prow of HMS Victory with bow, flag and figure. |
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| The stern of HMS Victory |
By Benjamin MARTY
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