20 Dec 2013
What’s in a name? HMS ‘Victory’ and the naming of ships in the long 18th Century
Prominently placed in the new ‘Nelson, Navy, Nation’ gallery is a ship model of the Victory. Visitors might expect this to represent Nelson’s Trafalgar flagship, but instead we chose to display an earlier vessel of the same name – built in 1737, and the fourth Royal Navy ship to be called Victory.