Location
HMS Victory is in a dry dock adjacent to the Naval Museums. The Nelson Plaque is on the Quarterdeck. The Victory Muster is by the gangway leading into the Victory.
Victory Plaque
Nelson Plaque
HMS Victory Muster
LAID DOWN 1759. LAUNCHED 1765
WAS AFTER 157 YEARS OF SERVICE
PLACED 1922 IN HER PRESENT BERTH.
THE OLDEST DOCK IN THE WORLD
AND RESTORED TO HER CONDITION
AS AT TRAFALGAR
UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE
SOCIETY FOR NAUTICAL RESEARCH
TO COMMEMORATE THE COMPLETION OF
THE WORK THIS TABLET WAS UNVEILED
ON 17TH JULY 1928 BY
H.M. KING GEORGE V
Inscription - Nelson Plaque
21ST OCT 1805
Inscription - Victory Muster
Further Information
At the Battle of Trafalgar, HMS Victory had a crew of 820 men commanded by Captain Thomas Masterman Hardy. The crew were comprised of 9 Commissioned Officers, 21 Mishipmen and 77 Non-commissioned Warrant and Petty Officers, the rest being Able and Ordinary Seaman, Landsmen, supernumeries and 31 boys. Also within this complement was a detachment of 146 Royal Marines from the Chatham Division, commanded by Captain Charles Adair.
A few days before the battle the Victory muster book listed 441 English, 64 Scots, 63 Irish, 18 Welsh, 3 Shetlanders, 2 Channel Islanders, and 1 Manxman. There were also 71 foreigners aboard comprising 22 Americans, 7 Dutch, 6 Swedes, 4 Italians, 4 Maltese, 3 Frenchmen volunteers, 3 Norwegians, 3 Germans, 2 Swiss, 2 Portuguese, 2 Danes, 2 Indians, 1 Russian, 1 from Africa and 9 from the West Indies.
The casualties of the Victory at the battle numbered 57 of her crew killed or dying of their wounds a few days later, and 102 wounded.
For an account of the Battle of Trafalgar see Nelson's Navy
See also the Trafalgar Memorial on Southsea Seafront
