HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar

[Stevebee]

I am looking for information on the repairs carried out to HMS Victory following the Battle of Trafalgar.

I know she was towed into Gibraltar for repairs before being able to continue back Home.

She was assisted through the Bay of Biscay and across the Channel by HMS Warrior and was anchored up in the Solent at Spithead Bank where further repairs were made before she was able to sail to Chatham, her final destination for the body of Lord Nelson which had remained on board all the time.

Steve Bennett

Edited October 16, 2007 by Stevebee

[Simon F]

Hi Steve

Here is an interesting link to some info that may give you a lead.

http://www.voodoo.cz/victory/victory.html

Also some information cut and paste from a online word document.

1759 HMS Victory started to be built at Chatham. The designer was Thomas Slade.

1765 7th May, HMS Victory was launched.

1778 Fitted out for service and commissioned. Battle of Ushant.

1780 Hull sheathed with copper.

1782 Relief of Gibraltar.

1787-1788 Major repairs at Portsmouth.

1789-1792 Served with the Channel Fleet.

1792-1793 HMS Victory refitted with armaments increased.

1793 Served with the Mediterranean Fleet as Lord Hood?s flagship.

1797 Battle of Cape Vincent. Later, HMS Victory was converted to a hospital ship.

1801-1803 HMS Victory repaired, refitted and modernised.

1803 After France declared war on Britain, Lord Nelson joined the Mediterranean Fleet and HMS Victory to blockade Toulon.

1805 21st October, Battle of Trafalgar.

1806 Extensive repairs at Chatham.

1808 Served in the Baltic as Admiral Saumarez?s flagship.

1808-1809 HMS Victory helped evacuate troops from Corunna.

1809-1810 Served in the Baltic as Admiral Saumarez?s flagship.

1811 Transported troops to the Peninsular War.

1812 HMS Victory ends her sea-service.

1814-16 Major refit and moored in Portsmouth.

1842-1922 Moored off Gosport.

1922 Moved to dry dock for restoration.

1928 HMS Victory opened to the public.

1941 HMS Victory damaged by a 500lb bomb.

2005 Recent major restoration to a high standard makes HMS Victory the only 18th century 100-gun ?line of battle? ship now in existence. She is the oldest commissioned warship in the world.

Sources of information:

http://www.hms-victory.com/

http://www.answers.com/topic/hms-victory

http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org