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HMS Victory (disambiguation)
Five ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Victory.
- The first Victory was a 42-gun ship, originally Great Christopher, purchased by the Royal Navy in 1569 and broken up in 1608.
- The second Victory, launched in 1620 at Deptford, was a 42-gun ship. She was rebuilt in 1666 as an 82-gun second-rate ship of the line and broken up in 1691.
- The third Victory, launched in 1737, was a 100-gun first-rate ship of the line. She was wrecked in 1744 on the Casquets off Alderney.
- The fourth Victory, launched in 1764, was an 8-gun schooner. She served in Canada and was burned in 1768.
- The fifth and most famous Victory (1765), is a 100-gun first-rate. She served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. She was Keppel's flagship at Ushant, Jervis's flagship at Cape St Vincent and Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar. She served as a habour ship after 1824 and was moved to a dry dock at Portsmouth in 1922 where she is preserved as a museum ship.
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