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1759, 23rd July
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Work begun on laying the keel at Catham Dockyard.
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1765, 7th May
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Launched at Chatham.
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1779
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Flagship of Sir Charles Hardy
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1780
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Flagship of Admiral Frederick Geary and Rear Admiral Samuel Drake
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1781
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Flagship of Admiral Hyde-Parker
Flagship of Admiral Kempenfelt
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1782
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Flagship of Admiral Lord Howe
Flagship of Admiral Lord Hood
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1787 - 1790
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Large repair, cost £33,500.
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1791
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Flagship of Admiral Lord Hood
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1793
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At the reduction of Toulon
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1794
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Siege of Calvi and Bastia.
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1795
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Flagship of Admiral Man and Sir John Jervis
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1797
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Battle of St Vincent, Admiral Jervis created Earl St Vincent.
Nearly wrecked in Lagos Bay.
Blockade of Cadiz, Paid off.
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1798
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As hospital ship, nearly converted to convict hulk.
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1801 -1803
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Large repair. Ship virtually rebuilt.
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1803
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Flagship of Admiral Lord Nelson
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1805
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Blockade of Cadiz. Battle of Trafalgar. (Badly damaged)
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1806
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Middle repair at Chatham.
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1807
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Re-rated as a Second Rate, masts and yards reduced, 24Pdr cannons replaced by 18Pdrs, 2 x 32Pdr cannons removed and ships company reduced by one hundred men.
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1808
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Flagship of Admiral Saumarez, serving the Baltic.
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1809
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Brought home part of Sir John Moore's army from Corunna.
Blockade of Kronstadt.
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1811
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Flagship of Admiral York, carried reinforcements to Lisbon
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1812
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Last time under sail on entering Portsmouth Harbour on 3rd November.
Paid off on the 30th November.
Became the flagship of the Port Admiral.
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1817
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Re-rated as First Rate
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1824
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Flagship of the Port Admiral.
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1830
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Became the Reidence of the Captain of Ordinary.
Headquarters of the Reserve Fleet.
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1831
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Flagship of the Port Admiral.
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1832
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Flagship of the Admiral Superintendent.
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1847
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Flagship of the Commander in Chief Portsmouth.
Lieutenant Pascoe, the signal Lieutenant at Trafalgar was her captain, before his promotion to rear-admiral.
She was growing old, her first admiral, Keppel, had died as long ago as 1786 and in 1836 Saumarez, her last admiral as a sea going ship, died in his beloved Guernsey.
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1869
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Tender to H.M.S. Duke of Wellington.
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1889
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Flagship of the Commander in Chief Portsmouth, and is until this day.
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1903
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Rammed by H.M battleship Neptune, on 23rd October (on its way to be scrapped). Neptunes ram bow pierced the side where Nelson died. Ship docked to stop her sinking. Repaired and moored at her usual bouys.
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1905
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Saluting ship, sun-set gun custom by Victory.
Up to 1906 in company with H.M.S. St Vincent as a training ship for boys.
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1922
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Ship's hull now rotten, moved back into dry dock.
Money raised by Society for Nautical Research to restore the ship back to her ‘Trafalgar' appearance.
On completion inspection by His majesty King George V. (1928)
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1928
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Ship open to visitors.
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1936
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Victory first used for important visitors by Admiral Sir William Fisher.
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1939
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All relics removed to Fort Southwick, at the outbreak of World War II.
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1941
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Damaged by a German 500lb bomb, port-side forward on the night of 10th/11th March.
Admiralty House damaged, Nelson's cabin used by the Commander in Chief, Admiral Sir William James.
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1945
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Re-opened for visitors.
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1946
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Rerigged and was visited by 193,443 people, being floodlit for the victory celebrations.
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1954-6
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She was fumigated against death watch beetle, which had eaten into her timbers.
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1971
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Major repairs to the stern.
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1987
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Major repairs to the Bow Sprit, Beak, Upper Gundeck, Middle Gundeck, Lower Gundeck, these repairs on the for end of the ship. Starboard side planking still being replaced, and the futtocks replaced as required.
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1989
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The sailors who used to guide the visitors around the ship were replaced by the ‘Victory Corps of Guides'.
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1993-94
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Main mast struck for repair and re-rigging.
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1994
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Nelson's cabin refurbished.
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1994-95
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Mizzen Mast struck and rerigged.
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1995
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Work on the starboard side carried out.
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