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HMS Victory Limited 38" Description
Total Dimensions: 38" L x 12" W x 28" HSOLD FULLY ASSEMBLED
Ready for Immediate Display - Not a Model Ship kit
Museum-quality features and finely-crafted details define this model tall ships scale replica Limited Edition of the HMS Victory. Every detail on Admiral Nelson’s flagship is ensured to match her as she fought at the Battle of Trafalgar through devoted attention to historical accuracy. Setting a patriotic nautical tone in a corporate boardroom or family living room, or perhaps as the centerpiece of a den, office or meeting room, this Limited Edition tall model ship is certain to inspire with her patriotic history and indomitable spirit.
38" Long x 12" Wide x 28" High (1:72 scale)
•Built from scratch over hundreds of hours by master artisans
•High quality woods include cherry, birch, maple and rosewood
•Individual wooden planks used in hull construction
•Museum Quality features not available in other model tall ships under $3,000 or any kit
◦Real copper-plated hull (not painted on) like the actual HMS Victory (done to prevent shipworms from destroying the wood hull)
◦Increased detail of deck features, cannon carriages, painting and other features
•200% more rigging than 30” tall model ships featuring over 200 blocks and deadeyes
•Cannon carriages tied-down to deck to reduce recoil
•Meticulous painting accurately matches the actual HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar
•Other Amazing Details, including:
◦Intricately carved hand-painted figurehead, scrollwork and stern window panes
◦Planked deck with nail holes
◦Authentic scale lifeboats with oars
◦Cannonball racks, buckets, barrels, rope coils and other nautical items adorn decks
◦Lattice grates, rudder chains, wooden ladders and planked steps
◦Gun-deck and cannon visible through open main-deck grate
◦Solid brass cannons and metal anchors
◦Masterfully stitched, heavy canvas sails hold shape and do not wrinkle
◦Taut rigging with varied thread gauge and color
•Limited production run only 50 of this tall ships model
•Certificate of Authenticity individually numbered and signed by HMS Founder and Master Builder Richard Norris
•Wooden display base features four arched dolphins
◦Pictured with marble base (available for purchase)
•Extensive research of original plans, historical drawings and paintings as well as actual photographs ensures the highest possible accuracy
HMS Victory Limited 38" HistoryHMS Victory is a 104-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759 and 1765. She is the oldest naval ship still in commission. She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship.
Construction
In December 1758, the commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction of a new 106-gun first-rate ship. This was an unusual occurrence at the time; during the whole of the 18th century only ten were constructed—the Royal Navy preferred smaller and more manoeuvrable ships and it was unusual for more than two to be in commission simultaneously.
The outline plans arrived in June 1759 and were based on HMS Royal George which had been launched at Woolwich Dockyard in 1756. The Naval Architect to design the ship was Sir Thomas Slade who, at the time, was the appointed Surveyor of the Navy.
The keel was laid on July 23, 1759 in the Old Single Dock (since renamed No. 2 Dock and now Victory Dock), and the name was finally chosen in October 1760. It was to commemorate the Annus Mirabilis or Year of Victories, of 1759. In that year of the Seven Years' War, land victories had been won at Quebec, Minden and naval battles had been won at Lagos and Quiberon Bay. There were some doubts whether this was a suitable name since the previous first-rate Victory had been lost with all on board in 1744.
Once the frame had been constructed it was normal to cover the ship up and leave it for several months to season. However, the end of the Seven Years' War meant that she remained in this condition for nearly three years, which helped her subsequent longevity. Work restarted in autumn 1763 and she was finally launched on May 7, 1765 having cost £63,176 and 3 shillings (present day £50 million) and used around 6000 trees, 90% of which were oak and the remainder elm, pine and fir.
Because there was no immediate use for her she was placed in ordinary—in reserve having been roofed over, demasted and placed under general maintenance—moored in the River Medway for 13 years until France joined the American War of Independence.
In March 1778 John Lindsay was appointed her very first captain, but he was transferred to captain HMS Prince George in May 1778 when Admiral the Honorable Augustus Keppel decided to raise his flag in Victory. She was commissioned in May 1778 under the command of Rear Admiral John Campbell (1st Captain) and Captain Jonathan Faulknor (2nd Captain), with the flag of Admiral Keppel. She was armed with smooth bore, cast iron cannon 30 × 32 and 42 pounders (15 and 19 kg), 30 × 24 pounders (11 kg), and 40 × 12 pounders (5 kg). Later she also carried two carronade guns, firing 68 lb (31 kg) round shot.
In service
First Battle of Ushant
Keppel put to sea from Spithead on July 9, 1778, with a force of thirty ships of the line and, on July 23, sighted a French fleet of twenty-nine ships 100 miles (160 km) west of Ushant. The French Admiral, Louis Guillouet, comte d'Orvilliers, who had orders to avoid battle, was cut off from Brest but retained the weather gage. Two of his ships escaped into port leaving him with twenty-seven. The two fleets manoeuvred during shifting winds and a heavy rain squall until a battle became inevitable with the British more or less in column and the French in some confusion. However, the French managed to pass along the British line with their most advanced ships. At about a quarter to twelve Victory opened fire on the Bretagne of 110 guns, which was being followed by the Ville de Paris of 90 guns. The British van escaped with little loss but Sir Hugh Palliser's rear division suffered considerably. Keppel made the signal to follow the French but Palliser did not conform and the action was not resumed. Keppel was court martialled and cleared and Palliser criticised by an inquiry before the affair turned into a party political squabble.
In March 1780 the hull below the waterline was sheathed with 3,923 sheets of copper to protect it against shipworm.
Second Battle of Ushant
On December 2, 1781, Victory, now commanded by Captain Henry Cromwell and bearing the flag of Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt, sailed with eleven other ships of the line, a 50-gun fourth-rate, and five frigates, to intercept a French convoy that sailed from Brest on December 10. Ignorant of the fact that the convoy was protected by twenty-one ships of the line under the command of Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, Kempenfelt ordered a chase when they were sighted on December 12 and began the Second Battle of Ushant. When he noted the French superiority he contented himself with capturing fifteen sail of the convoy. The French were dispersed in a gale and forced to return home.
Battle of Cape St. Vincent
In 1796 Captain Robert Calder (First Captain) and Captain George Grey (Second Captain) commanded Victory under Admiral Sir John Jervis's flag. Sir John Jervis sailed from the Tagus on January 18, 1797, and after being reinforced on February 6 by five ships from England, his fleet consisted of fifteen sail of the line and six frigates. On February 14, the Portuguese frigate Carlotta, commanded by a Scotsman named Campbell with a Portuguese commission, brought news that a Spanish fleet was close. Jervis manoeuvred to intercept, and the Battle of C
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