HMS Victory (1765); Warship; First rate; 100 guns

Scale: 1:24. Model depicting the foremast of Victory (1765), a first rate 100 gun ship, made from a single piece of wood, which is a light yellow ochre and varnished, with the cheeks, fishes, and platform knees attached. The whole model is then finished with metal hoops, made from paper and then painted black. The model also shows from the level of the forecastle up, the damaged received to the mast during the battle of Trafalgar 1805. The damage includes areas where the shot has ripped through the mast as well as actual scale shot, which has been impregnated into the mast itself. The level above the fighting top or platform to the square headed top for the topmast cap position has been painted black. The model comes complete with its original mahogany storage box with a sliding lid.

A hand written paper label on model reads "A model of the foremast of His Majesty's Ship the Victory representing the shot holes which it received in the glorious Battle of Trafalgar, made from a piece of the Mast that was in the ship on the day of the battle". A smaller label reads "Scale half an inch to a foot", and on the lower section of the mast the annotations read "Forecastle", "Upper deck", "Middle deck" and "Gun deck".

Object Details

ID: SLR2468
Collection: Ship models
Type: Equipment model; Mast model
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Events: Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar, 1805
Vessels: Victory (1765)
Date made: Unknown
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Overall: 1360 mm x 60 mm x 45 mm; Box: 85 x 1375 x 70 mm