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H.M.S. Victory
HMS Victory is the only 18th Century ship of the line still to be found anywhere in the world.
She is the world's oldest surviving warship still in use and is the flagship of the Second Sea Lord, Commander in Chief Naval Home Command.
She retains her own Captain, officers and crew - and flies the flag of the Second Sea Lord, Commander in Chief Naval Home Command.
HMS Victory appears today in the form in which she fought her most famous battle, the Battle of Trafalgar (21st October 1805) at which Admiral Lord Nelson was shot by a French marine from the fighting top of the Redoutable.
Although Victory underwent a major refit between the Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797) and Trafalgar, her appearance today still gives an immense impression of the conditions aboard the flagship of Admiral Sir John Jervis on Tuesday 14th February 1797.

HMS Victory, berthed in No. 2 Dock, Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, England

One of three gun decks on the ship.

HMS Victory -
the main mast and fighting top from the quarter deck - a mass of running and standing rigging
HMS Victory carries four masts - the bowsprit, the fore mast, the main mast and the mizzen mast (bow to stern).
The masts carry the horizontal yards from which were slung the great canvas sails -
in all a total of some 4 acres of canvas (approximately 16,000m²).

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Updated 01-01-04