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Assembly Instructions: Victory Art. 776
Mantua Model Group August 2001 Page 2
A SHORT HISTORY OF H.M.S. VICTORY
H.M.S. Victory is the fifth ship of the Royal Navy to bear this name. The first Victory, launched in 1559, of
800 tons, was the flagship of Sir John Hawkins at the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
The second Victory, launched in 1620, of 875 tons, took part in the first and second Dutch wars, 1652-
1667. Rebuilt in 1666, she took part in the third Dutch war, 1672-1674.
The third Victory, launched in 1675, of 1486 tons, took part in the Battle of Barfleur in 1692. She was
rebuilt in 1695.
The fourth Victory, launched in 1737, of 1920 tons, was lost with all hands in the Channel in 1744.
The story of the present H.M.S. Victory carries us back to 1758. In that year the ministers of George II
decided on an ambitious programme of building twelve ships of the line. At the head of the list stood a
ship -as yet unnamed -a first rate of 100 guns to be built at Chatham. It was singularly appropriate that
this particular ship should be put in hand in the year 1759. This was the "Year of Victories" the climax of
the Seven Years War. On land Britain’s armies had triumphed at Surat, Minden and Quebec; at sea, at
Lagos and Quiberon Bay. How fitting it was, therefore, that the ship laid down in July of that year should
receive the proud name of H.M.S. Victory.
Designed by Thomas Slade, Senior Surveyor of the Navy, the Victory’s building was supervised by Mr.
Allen, Master Shipwright at Chatham. The usual period for building a first rate was then five years, but
British successes at sea in the Seven Years War had lessened the sense of urgency, and it was not until
7th May 1765, that H.M.S. Victory was launched. Meanwhile in 1763, the Peace of Paris had ended the
Seven Years War, and for thirteen years after her launching H.M.S. Victory remained in the River
Medway. There in January, 1771, she must have been seen for the first time by the young Horatio
Helson, then aged twelve, on joining his first ship H.M.S. Raisonnable.
In 1778 France entered the American War of Independence on the side of the American colonists, and
H.M.S. Victory was hurried to Portsmouth, where in May she hoisted the flag of Admiral Keppel in
command of the Channel Fleet. In July of that year H.M.S. Victory was in action for the first time in an
indecisive engagement off Ushant.
After wearing successively the flags of Admirals Hardy, Geary, Hyde Parker and Kempenfelt, she became
the flagship of Lord Howe, and in 1782 took part in the relief of Gibraltar and the Battle of Cape Spartel.
On her return to Portsmouth she was paid off in 1783, in which year the Treaty of Versailles brought a
temporary peace. In 1793 Britain joined the First Coalition against Revolutionary France. In May of that
year Lord Hood in H.M.S. Victory left England for the Mediterranean with a strong fleet of twenty-one
ships. Toulon was captured, but had to be evacuated, mainly due to the exertions of a young artillery
officer, Napoleon Bonaparte. In 1794 operations were undertaken against Corsica. At the siege of Calvi,
men and guns were landed from H.M.S. Victory and placed under the command of Captain Horatio
Nelson, who lost the sight of this right eye from a wound sustained during these operations.
Returning to Portsmouth for a brief refit, H.M.S. Victory returned to the Mediterranean as flagship of
Admiral Man, second-in-command to Admiral Hotham, and in July 1795, she took part in the indecisive
action off Cape Hyeres. Hotham's failure to force a decision at Hyeres led to Spain throwing in her lot
with France and the Mediterranean was lost, until Nelson made reoccupation possible by his victory at the
Nile three years later.
In November 1795, the command of the fleet was placed in the strong, capable hands of Admiral Sir John
Jervis, with his flag in H.M.S. Victory. On 14th February 1797, came the timely victory of Cape St.
Vincent. Commodore Nelson in H.M.S. Captain played a most effective part by leaving the line of battle,
throwing his ship across the path of the Spaniards, and himself receiving the surrender of two of them.
In November 1797, H.M.S. Victory returned to Chatham and was paid off. From 1798 to 1800 her
distinguished fighting career was temporarily interrupted, and she became a hospital ship for the prison
hulks. In 1801, she was docked and for the next two years she underwent a very large refit. She was, in
fact, almost rebuilt and her appearance altered to that she bears today. The figurehead was completely
redesigned, the open galleries removed, the stern made "flat" and the chains moved from below to above
the upper gun deck ports.
H.M.S. Victory was again commissioned in April 1803, and in July of that year she arrived in the
Mediterranean as flagship of Lord Nelson, Commander-in-Chief. For the next eighteen months she took
part in the blockade of Toulon, which ended with the escape of Villeneuve, the long chase to the West
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