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HMS VICTORY model

ModelShipMaster produces the most accurate model of the famed HMS Victory. Our model has natural looking sails which are not dead stiff like plastic. The guns under the main deck are 'real', with metal barrels sitting on wooden carriages. Making tall ships is an art that not any company can achieve. The ships must look tough, not shiny new like a plastic accessory. Click here to learn more: what to look for in a tall ship model.

ModelShipMaster never cuts the bowsprit and masts short in order to save shipping cost like numerous models out there. The small boats on deck are painstakingly crafted from wood, not resin casting. When you are acquiring a HMS Victory, don't be tempted by the ridiculous low prices from junk shops. Those models are a disgrace to the historic HMS Victory and also to their owners.



The HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She is best known for her role as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar which was essential to Britain's continued superiority on the high seas during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Victory was the world's first ship that had three gun decks. Her hull thickness at waterline was astonishing 2 feet. Her construction took over 6,000 oak trees and cost 63,176 British pounds—an equivalent to the cost today of an aircraft carrier. She required 850 sailors! 

Until the Battle of Trafalgar, it had been the custom for fleets to do battle by sailing past or alongside each other in two parallel lines. Nelson broke this tradition by attacking the enemy at right angle, breaking through the French and Spanish lines and cutting off their retreat. This aggressive strategy would forever change the course of naval warfare.

Under Nelsons' strategy, the English fleet, under two columns, sailed toward the enemy. At about noon, a French ship started to fire at the HMS Royal Sovereign (lead ship of one of the columns.) For the twenty agonizing minutes it took to reach the enemy lines, Royal Sovereign and HMS Victory endured continuous fire in silence. 

On one column, HMS Victory led on, suffering unrelenting rain of cannon shot. She was searching for the French admiral’s ship. When seeing the huge Spanish four-decker Santissima Trinidad, Nelson correctly assumed that the French admiral’s ship was nearby and bore down on the Santissima Trinidad. As he was doing so, the French flagship Bucentaure and seven other enemy ships fired on HMS Victory. By the time she had come close enough to fire on the Santissima Trinidad, 50 of her men were dead and 30 wounded.

On the other column, the HMS Royal Sovereign drew astern of the Spanish three-decker Santa Anna. She raked her decks with a murderous double-shot volley that put 400 Spanish sailors out of action.

Then Victory collided with the French Redoubtable. Locked together, the two ships drifted slowly through the battle. The Redoubtable’s marksmen shot down 40 British sailors. Seeing the upper deck populated only by the dead and wounded, the French tried to board the Victory. HMS Victory’s botswain’s whistle piped the tune signifying “boarders; repel boarders,” and the order immediately summoned swarms of blue-jackets to the deck, where they killed every enemy who had managed to board. During this defense that a sniper on the mizzen-top of the Redoubtable aimed his musket at Nelson. 

Below decks, Nelsonīs life was ebbing away fast. But he lived to see Captain Hardy return from the fighting above to hear the news that fourteen enemy vessels had been captured. “That’s well,” Nelson said, “but I had bargained for twenty.”

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About the construction of the HMS Victory model:

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Construction reference: The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships by Charles Longridge, First Rate: The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail by Rif Winfield, Copies of the original ships plans obtained from the National Maritime Museum, The 100-Gun Ship Victory (Anatomy of the Ship) by John McKay

- Built from scratch,
Plank-on-frame construction
 
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Copper-plated bottom: individual copper pieces (no copper color paint on wood, no fake lines)

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Under the main deck, all guns are "real" guns which have proper barrels and wooden carriages which sit on 2 real decks under the main deck. These guns are not simple barrels inserted into a solid hull like in other models.

- Authentic extensive rigging system comprised of many different sizes of rope and features numerous blocks and deadeyes

- Full length masts and bowsprit per original blueprints

- Correct boats. These small boats are not easy to make, and we make them beautifully. Wooden, not resin casted.

- Beautiful and accurate three-dimensional stern gallery. It is comprised of numerous pieces, not a flat piece of prefabricated metal glued on the hull as seen in many models.

hms victory model

28" long x 21" tall x 10" wide $4,570  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous US included. Other places: $400 flat rate.

36" long x 26" tall x 12" wide $6,490  Shipping and insurance in the contiguous US included. Other places: $600 flat rate.

Model is built per commission only. We require only a small deposit (not full amount, not even half) to start the process.Click here to view lead time.

Add light feature to delight your guests in a dimly lit room: $300. Powered by a standard 9v battery under the base, with on/off switch.    

Model is built per commission only. We require only a deposit of 1/3 of the amount to start the process. The remaining balance won't be due until the model is completed. Click here for lead time.   

If you want a larger model, click here: HMS Victory

hms victory

Learn more about the HMS Victory here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Victory

To learn more about the accuracy of a Victory model: https://www.hms-victory.com/