HMS Victory
A visit on board HMS Victory at Portsmouth Dockyard, the Royal Navy's oldest commissioned warship. Built at Chatham Dockyard and launched on 7th May 1765, this 104 gun first rate top of the line battleship was commissioned into the fleet in 1778 and is most noted for being the flagship of Lord Horatio Nelson during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. During her career, HMS Victory participated in the First Battle of Ushant (1778), the Second Battle of Ushant (1781), the Siege of Gibraltar (1782) and the battles of Cape Spartel (1782), Cape St Vincent (1797) and finally Trafalgar (1805). With a displacement of 3,500 tons, HMS Victory was moved to her present dry dock, the oldest dry dock in the world, in 1922, and is today the flagship of the First Sea Lord, the oldest warship in the world still in commission.