HMS Victory (1620)
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For other ships with the same name, see List of ships named HMS Victory.
Victory was a great ship of the English Navy, launched in 1620 and in active service during the seventeenth century's Anglo-Dutch Wars. After a seventy-year naval career, she was broken up at Woolwich Dockyard in 1691 and her timbers reused in other vessels.
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Portrait of Victory by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1655 | |
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Name | Victory |
Ordered | 10 March 1620 |
Builder | William Burrell, Deptford Dockyard |
Launched | 1620 |
Commissioned | 1627 |
Fate | Broken up, 1691 |
Notes | |
General characteristics as built[1] | |
Class and type | 42-gun great ship |
Tons burthen | 87079⁄94 bm |
Length | 108 ft 0 in (32.92 m) (keel) |
Beam | 35 ft 9 in (10.90 m) , later raised (probably through girdling) to 37 ft 6 in (11.43 m) |
Depth of hold | 17 ft 0 in (5.18 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Complement | 260–300 |
Armament | 42 guns |
General characteristics after 1666 rebuild[2] | |
Class and type | 82-gun second-rate ship of the line |
Tons burthen | 1029 74⁄94 bm |
Length | 121 ft (37 m) (keel) |
Beam | 40 ft (12 m) |
Depth of hold | 17 ft 6 in (5.33 m) |
Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Armament | 82 guns of various weights of shot |
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