Item  #  A0104

HMS Victory 30"

• 30" long x 9 " Wide x 23" High (1:135 scale). 20 Lbs.
• Amazing details (cannonball racks between the cannons, planked deck where you can see the nail holes, oars in the lifeboats, lantern of the main mast).
• Meticulously painted to the actual HMS Victory as she was at the Battle of Trafalgar.
• 18 masterfully stitched, thick canvas sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
• Turned brass cannons.
• Advanced rigging techniques over 100 blocks/deadeyes.
• Perfectly taught rigging of various colors and thickness to increase authenticity.
• Authentic lifeboats - not flat bottomed.
• Visible lower deck below the life boats where you can see the full cannons and cannonballs lined up!
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans.
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as oak, maple, cherry and white pine.
• The model rests perfectly on a large, wood base between four arched metal dolphins.
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.

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 maneuverable 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.