HMS Victory– First Rate – Flagship at 5 Battles: First Ushant (Keppel) – Second Ushant (Kempenfelt) – Cape Spartel (Howe) – Cape St Vincent (Jervis) – Trafalgar (Nelson)
Launched at Limehouse (London) in 1787, Captain was with the Mediterranean fleet in Toulon helping French Royalists against Revolutionary troops in 1793 when Napoleon made his name in an action driving the Royalists and the fleet out. This soon led to Admiral John Jervis transferring Captain Horatio Nelson from Agamemnon to Captain (later Nelson would…
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