Scale: 1:48. A block design model of the 100-gun, three-decker ship of the line (1735). The model is decked.

The only 100-gun first-rate built to the 1733 Establishment was the ill-fated ‘Victory’, which was being built around the same time as this model. It was launched in 1738. It was only marginally longer (by nine inches), and wider (by six inches) than the 1719 Establishment ships like the ‘Royal William’. It was, however, armed with heavier guns, carrying twenty-eight 32- or 42-pound guns on the gun deck, 28 24-pounders on the middle deck, twenty-eight 12-pounders on the upper deck, twelve 6-pounders on the quarterdeck and four 6-pounders on the forecastle. It was the last first rate to be armed only with brass guns.

The ‘Victory’ joined the Channel fleet in 1741 after being repaired following a collision with the ‘Lion’ in 1740. In April and May 1744, it served on the Lisbon convoy before becoming Admiral Balchen’s flagship later that year. The ship is best known as ‘Balchen’s Victory’, after the Admiral, lost when it sank without trace in October 1744.