Victory, HMS

HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Chatham in 1765 and best known as Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805, where he was killed. She served as a flagship in several earlier actions and later as a harbor and depot ship. Preserved in dry dock at Portsmouth since 1922, she is the oldest commissioned warship in the world and the centerpiece of the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, undergoing long-term timber conservation.