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Handcrafted, scratch built and ready
made. Absolutely nothing to do, except to remove from their boxes!
This model ship of the HMS Victory was customised further, including new figureheads, special name plates etc. This model ship was the centrepiece for a bicentennial anniversary of the battle of Trafalgar.
Hi Rehaz I'm now in Sudbury MA.and have unpacked HMS Victory and the cross- section of Surprise. I'm delighted with both.
Hi Rashid,
Looks wonderful.
When can you deliver it? October 18 is the last possible day before the Trafalgar Dinner at which it will be the centrepiece.
David Thomas (UK Buyer of HMS Victory, September 2005)
Thanks
for the HMS Victory ship model, our M.D was pleased. I have been
approached by another member of staff who has shown an interest in this
ship model. I mentioned to him the model ship was with a special
discount. He’s still interested in spite of me trying to dissuade him
not to waste your time. Could you let me know what can be done for him?
I thought that I would let you know that the HMS Victory ship model
arrived safely the other day. Even after seeing the level of finish and
attention to detail of your other model ships, when we met on your
stand at the London Boat Show, I was still immensely impressed and
pleased with the actual ship model. Thank you for taking the time to
add the additional paint to the hull. It was certainly worth waiting
for and will now be a happy and permanent reminder of my childhood in
Pompey.
I
hope PSM continues to succeed as it deserves (hopefully helped by our
picture in Canal Boat Magazine this month!!) and I would be most
grateful if you would send me a copy of your catalogue so so that I can
'spread the word' to others who will no doubt be equally impressed when
I put the HMS Victory on display.
Many thanks, once again, Matt & Jane Strange (Buyer of HMS Victory)
Works of art - all of them.
Buyer of the HMS Victory at Southampton Boat Show 2002
Original specifications of HMS Victory: 1st rate 100 (3m), L/B/D: 69m * 15.8m * 6.6m, Hull: Wood, Complement: 850, Armament: 2 * 68 pdr, 28 * 42 pdr, 28 * 24 pdr, 28 * 12 pdr, 16 * 6 pdr, Designer: Sir Thomas Slade, Built: Chatham Dockyard; 1765.
The HMS Victory was launched in 1765, but was not commissioned until 1778. When France signed a treaty of cooperation with the U.S., HMS Victory was made flagship of Admiral Sir Augustus Keppel’s Channel Fleet.
In July 1778, she took part in an indecisive battle off Ushant, Brittany, where thirty-five of her crew were injured or killed. In December of that same year, she captured a French convoy off Ushant bound for America. In 1782, HMS Victory was Lord Howe’s flagship in the relief of Gibraltar. Paid off at Portsmouth the following year, HMS Victory remained in ordinary for eight years.
In 1792, HMS Victory became the flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood’s Mediterranean Fleet, which occupied Toulon and captured Bastia and Calvi (Corsica).
The next year, Admiral Sir John Jervis broke his flag in HMS Victory. With only half as many ships of the line as the French and Spanish combined fleets, Jarvis consolidated his force at Gibraltar. On February 14, 1797 he sailed with 15 British ships to intercept a large Spanish convoy guarded by 27 ships of the line. The British broke the Spanish line and inflicted terrible damage on the Spanish flagships and captured a number of vessels. Their success was due in no small part to Admiral Lord Nelson, then in HMS Captain.
In 1800, it was decided to rebuild HMS Victory, and on May 16, 1803, she became the flagship of Lord Nelson’s Mediterranean Fleet. At this time, Napoleon had begun formulating plans for the invasion of England, and Nelson was ordered to contain Vice Admiral Pierre Villeneuve’s squadron at Toulon.
Villeneuve arrived at Cadiz on August 21st and was blockaded by Nelson. Daunted by the prospect of an engagement with the British fleet, Villeneuve stayed put until Napoleon relieved him of command, but on October 21st, he turned back to face Nelson.
As the British lines approached the combined fleet (eighteen French and fifteen Spanish Ship of the line), Nelson ordered his most famous signal run up HMS Victory’s masts; “England expects that every man will do his duty”. HMS Victory was engaged by a number of French vessels including Bucentaure, Redoutatable, and Neptune. Nelson had insisted on wearing his full allotment of medals and decoration and at 1325, and he was wounded by a French sharp shooter. Nelson was taken below and at 1630, having been informed of capture of fifteen of the enemy ships, the hero of Copenhagen, the Nile, and now Trafalgar died.
Towed to Gibraltar by HMS Neptune, HMS Victory sailed for England on December 22, from where Nelson’s body was carried to St Paul’s Cathedral for a state funeral. His death was not in vain, for he had destroyed the French and any threat of a Napoleonic invasion of Britain.
After a refit at Chatham, in 1808, HMS Victory re-entered service as the flagship of Sir James Saumarez’s Baltic fleet, which blockaded the Russian fleet and kept opened the supply of naval stores from Sweden. She remained in the Baltic until paid off in 1812.
Since 1824, HMS Victory has served as the flagship of the Commander in Chief at Portsmouth. In 1922, she was dry docked and opened as a museum. Ironically, she received her last battle wound in World War II, when a German bomb exploded in her dry-dock.
Bennett, Nelson the Commander. Bugler, HMS Victory. Fraser, HMS Victory. Longridge, Anatomy of Nelson’s ships. McKay, 100-gun ship Victory. Mackenzie, Trafalgar role. Schom, Trafalgar.
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