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Note: Delivery may take around 2-4 weeks

What you get:

• Real authentically aged copper plated hull, like the actual HMS Victory (done to prevent the toredo worm from destroying the hull).
  
• Amazing details (cannonball racks between the cannons, planked deck where you can see the nail holes, oars in the lifeboats, lantern of the main mast).
  
• Meticulously painted to the actual HMS Victory as she was at the Battle of Trafalgar.
  
• 18 masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle.
  
• Turned brass cannons.
  
• Advanced rigging techniques over 100 blocks/deadeyes.
  
• Perfectly taught rigging of various colors and thickness to increase authenticity.
  
• Authentic lifeboats - not flat bottomed.
  
• Visible lower deck below the life boats where you can see the full cannons and cannonballs lined up!
  
• Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by master artisans.
  
• Built with rare, high quality woods such as oak, maple, cherry and white pine.
  
• The model rests perfectly on a large, wood base between four arched metal dolphins.
  
• To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship.
  

The memory of England´s greatest sea battle after Drake´s defeat of the Spanish Armada is kept fresh in all our minds by the continued existence of HMS Victory, which is preserved in a dry dock at Portsmouth. Launched in 1765, she was already an old ship by the time of Trafalgar, which makes her survival to this day even more remarkable.

Walking her immaculate gun decks it is difficult to imagine now just how terrible the conditions must have been for her crew, sweating over their belching guns, with the decks slippery with the blood of their dead or wounded comrades.

A 100-gun First Rate ship designed by Sir Thomas Slade, the Surveyor of the Navy (1755-1771), according to the Establishment of 1745 as the only ship of its class and built in 1759-1765 at the Chatham Dockyard for the Royal Navy.

The Victory's main guns were 12 pounders (top), 24 pounders (middle) or 32 pounders. The big gun (left) was called a carronade, named The Smasher. Once the powder hole had been filled, it was fired by a slow match or flintlock. The cartridge and shot were laid by a rammer after the "worm" had removed cartridge fragments, and the damp sponge had put out any sparks there might be in the barrel.

Delivery to: UK, USA, Canada, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark. France, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

P+P ADDED AT CHECKOUT (Some non-uk destinations may require an additional delivery charge for heavier items).