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    HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She was ordered in 1758, laid down in 1759, and launched in 1765. With 246 years...
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    HMS Victory was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built to the dimensions of the 1733 proposals of the 1719 Establishment at Portsmouth...
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  • Six ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Victory: English ship Victory (1569), a 42-gun ship, originally named Great Christopher, purchased by...
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    crossfire as they approached the Franco-Spanish lines. Nelson's own HMS Victory led the front column and was almost knocked out of action. Nelson was...
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    day, with Victory coming to the aid of the dismasted HMS Loyal London when that vessel caught fire in the midst of battle. Two of Victory's crew distinguished...
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  • in the Philippines Victory Motorcycles, an American motorcycle manufacturer Victory Records, an American record label HMS Victory, six Royal Navy ships...
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    1854) was a Scottish nurse who was working aboard Vice-Admiral Nelson’s HMS Victory when he died in The Battle of Trafalgar. She tended to Nelson's body...
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    immediately astern of Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. During the battle Temeraire came to the rescue of the beleaguered Victory, and fought and captured two French...
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    S2CID 162165859. "Service Life". HMS-Victory. 12 January 1922. Archived from the original on 23 July 2008. Retrieved 19 July 2009. "HMS Victory to be re-painted in...
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    Trafalgar. The battle became one of Britain's greatest naval victories, but Nelson, aboard HMS Victory, was fatally wounded by a musket ball fired from the French...
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    second-oldest ship in Royal Navy service, after the ship-of-the-line HMS Victory. Caroline was converted into a museum ship after she was decommissioned...
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    HMS Belfast is a Town-class light cruiser that was built for the Royal Navy. She is now permanently moored as a museum ship on the River Thames in London...
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    Portsmouth, the Mary Rose Trust, the Warrior Preservation Trust Ltd and the HMS Victory Preservation Company. Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Ltd was created to...
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    Francisco on 23 Sept 1854 HMS Victory – 18th-century first rate ship of the line USS Constitution – 18th-century US Navy frigate HMS Unicorn – a surviving...
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    HMS Neptune was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She served on a number of stations during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic...
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    the Brest squadron, served in the Caribbean in 1803, and duelled with HMS Victory during the Battle of Trafalgar, killing Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson during...
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    Wars. He served as flag captain to Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars...
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    Trafalgar Day (category Victory days)
    depicting Admiral Lord Nelson minutes before he was killed on board HMS Victory in 1805. It is believed[by whom?] that this is the only memorial on the...
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    near HMS Victory. HMS M.33 is listed as part of the National Historic Fleet, she is now located at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, close to HMS Victory. She...
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    housed the French Naval Academy under the name Borda from 1864 to 1890. HMS Victory at drydock in Portsmouth Harbour, 2007 A contemporary diagram illustrating...
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    Commonwealth War Graves Commission until 30 June 2019. A Trustee of the HMS Victory Preservation Company, his transport interests also include membership...
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    Royal Fleet Auxiliary and vessels operated by Serco Marine Services HMS Victory, Flagship of the First Sea Lord Vanguard (Vanguard class) Ambush (Astute...
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    HMS Bronington is a former Ton-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy, named HMS Humber between 1954 and 1958. This mahogany-hulled minesweeper was one of...
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    Horatio Nelson. He briefly commanded HMS Victory, before surrendering her to Thomas Hardy, who would go on to command Victory at Trafalgar, and be present at...
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  • Nelson wrote to Atkinson personally asking him to serve as master in HMS Victory. They served together until Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar...
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    Flotilla. HMS Victory HMS Queen Elizabeth HMS Prince of Wales HMS Daring – completing refit, scheduled to return to the fleet in 2024 HMS Dauntless HMS Diamond...
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    commissioned ships (including submarines as well as one historic ship, HMS Victory) in the Royal Navy, plus 13 ships of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA)...
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    flagship, HMS Victory (the world's oldest naval ship still in commission), and HMS Warrior, the Royal Navy's first ironclad warship. The former HMS Vernon...
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    Furzer, and launched in 1675. She was renamed HMS Victory on 7 March 1691 after the old second rate Victory of 1666 was condemned by survey and taken to...
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    the Royal Navy Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson from his flagship HMS Victory as the Battle of Trafalgar was about to commence on 21 October 1805....
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