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HMS VICTORY model
 

HMS Victory is a first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Launched in 1765, she was the first that had three gun decks. After six years of construction, she was commissioned in March 1778, with a complement of 850 sailors. HMS Victory took over 6,000 oak trees. Hull thickness at waterline is 2 ft. She cost 63,176 British pounds to build—an equivalent to the cost today of an aircraft carrier.

HMS Victory was the most  successful 100-gun ship of the period and the flagship of half a dozen famous admirals. Forever associated with Nelson's battle at Trafalgar, HMS Victory stands second to none in the hearts of British seamen. She is the oldest naval vessel still in commission.

HMS Victory was essential to Britain's continued superiority on the high seas during the Napoleonic Wars.

Until the Battle of Trafalgar, it had been the custom for fleets to do battle by sailing past or alongside each other in two parallel lines. Nelson completely break this tradition. He divided his fleet into two groups (led by HMS Victory and Royal Sovereign) that would attack the enemy at right angles, breaking through the French and Spanish lines and cutting off their retreat. This aggressive strategy would forever change the course of naval warfare.

The English fleet sailed toward the enemy, who fired the first shot at the Royal Sovereign at noon. Because the ships were perpendicular to one another, for the twenty agonizing minutes it took to reach the enemy lines, the lead ships of the two British attack groups  were forced to endure continuous fire in silence.

The HMS Victory, under unrelenting rain of cannon shot, sighted the huge Spanish four-decker Santisima Trinidad. Nelson correctly assumed that the French admiral’s ship was nearby and bore down on the Santisima Trinidad. As he did, the Bucentaure and eight other enemy ships fired on the HMS Victory. Still she advanced. By the time she had come close enough to rake the Santissima Trinidad, 50 of her men were dead and 30 wounded.

At that point, the bloodied HMS Victory collided with the French Redoutable. Locked together, the two ships drifted slowly through the battle. A sniper kneeling in the mizzen-top of the Redoubtable aimed his musket at Nelson. 

In the meantime, the Redoubtable’s marksmen had shot down 40 British sailors. Seeing the upper deck populated only by the dead and wounded, the French tried to board the HMS Victory. Victory’s botswain’s whistle piped the tune signifying “boarders; repel boarders,” and swarms of blue-jackets immediately appeared on deck, eradicating the boarders.

Below decks, Nelson´s life was ebbing away fast. But he lived to see Captain Hardy return from the fighting above to hear the news that fourteen enemy vessels had given in. “That’s well,” Nelson said, “but I had bargained for twenty.”

The destruction of the Franco-Spanish fleet gave England the power to rule an empire that included India, Canada, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and preside over a world economy in which London was the financial heart of Europe.

This HMS Victory ship model features:

- Realistic soft sails. No dark rims, not bright white, no uniform shape that looks like plastic.

- Authentic extensive rigging system comprised of many different sizes of rope and features numerous blocks and deadeyes.

- Copper-plated bottom: individual copper pieces (no fake lines, no copper paint on wood hull.)

- Blackened metal cannons and wooden carriage. Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit on a real decks. They are not fake guns, as explained here.

- Three sizes of gun barrels. The ones on the lowest deck are the largest.

- Scratch-built, plank-on-frame construction.
 

28" long x 21" tall x 10" wide $4,570  

36" long x 26" tall x 12" wide $5,790  

42" long x 30" tall x 14" wide $7,350

78" long. Email us for price.
 

Prices include crating, shipping, and insurance in the contiguous US ($500-$900 value) Other places: $400, $600, and $900 flat rate.