#HMS Victory

[smashorpassgilf]

[vox-anglosphere]

Nelson's Flagship

[clove-pinks]

Reblog if you think the girl afloat is just as pretty as the girl in dry dock. 🙏🏻♥️

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Victory anchored off the Isle of Wight, John Wilson Carmichael, 1847

[neylo]

Before Trafalgar

As you noticed I have been experimenting with a new drawing style. I found inspiration in 1700s and 1800s coloured drawings and I used your requests as an inspiration. Thank you!

Here we have the results - Horatio Nelson in his HMS Victory cabin. I have visited HMS Victory last Friday and I loved it. Then I saw my partner standing there, listening to their audio guide… so I grabbed the pose and used it as a reference.

Nelson’s features are based on his life mask so I’m very satisfied with the accuracy of the picture!

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Trafalgar; Victory at noon - H.M.S. 'Victory' breaking the enemy line and raking the stern of the French flagship by Montague Dawson

[falling-through-a-trapdoor]

Guys I got a necklace made out of wood salvaged from the HMS Victory. I’m never taking it off. Now I need them to just scrape off a tiiiiiiiny piece of Erebus for me

[i-am-countess-olivia]

HMS Victory / HMS Warrior photo dump below the cut. A very happy day spent in Portsmouth.

Victory

Warrior

[kelvinthegoatt]

Small sketch

[nix-xon]

It's my birthday today!

I bought myself a sextant lmao

It goes well on my Napoleonic Wars shelf, and is a good pair with my bosun's whistle

(and yes, those are HMS Victory bookends that my brother got for my birthday a few years back)

[jamesfitzjamesdotcom]

Age of Sail ❤️

Ships: HMS Dreadnought (1906) and HMS Victory (1765)

[ltwilliammowett]

HMS Victory's upper gun deck: thirty 12-pounder cannon, photo by Maritime Photographic

[rulebaetannia]

Parties? On HMS Victory? Oh, the shame of it!

There is nothing funnier to me than this piece from some years ago, in which the Daily Mail tries to lazily fear monger about allowing small and respectable receptions and dinners on the over two hundred year old warship, HMS Victory.

"The Great Cabin, where Admiral Lord Nelson plotted his strategy during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, is available for fine dining by a group of 20 people for a minimum cost of £30,000." Trying to make it sound so grandiose and therefore undignified to have a dinner party in the room that Nelson planned his battles in! And that Nelson lived in. And that Nelson invited people into to come visit him. And...had dinner parties in.

"[. . .]dinner on the Lower Gun Deck – where the lower ranks survived on stale biscuits and ale – starts at £240 a head." What an affront to history! Eating fancy food where battle hardened sailors once survived on dusty crumbs! Never mind that Nelson constantly went out of his way to make sure his sailors ate well, but no one writing this actually cares one whit about Nelson or Victory.

"The use of the vessel – which led Britain to victory against the French and Spanish fleets – will dismay traditionalists who believe treasured parts of the nation’s heritage should not be exploited for commercial benefit." The money is specifically going toward the on going restorations of Victory, of course. Unfortunately these traditionalists don't seem to be aware that Nelson loved dinner parties so much that his two closest companions, Captain Hardy and Lady Hamilton, were both known for their knack and grace when hosting dinner parties. Honestly, eating overpriced food and pretending to know about wine is probably the most historically accurate thing you could do on this ship.

Also funny, they quote people who have much reason to care about the ship--a descendant of Nelson's, the Nelson society, the National Museum of the Royal Navy--all of whom were generally of the opinion this is fine, as long as the ship is taken care of and respected. But surely the dignity of Victory shouldn't be the site of some brat teenager's 16th birthday! Or a hen night (bachelorette party) oh, the indignity of penis shaped candles on Lord Horatio Nelson's hallowed ship!

But then they have a quote from the man who books the parties saying that they are very selective and have strict rules regarding allowing parties on the ship. Most of these are to do with preserving the ship's condition, though they say they are also careful about choosing what to allow on the ship. They even specifically rule out 18th birthday parties and the aforementioned hen nights. It's nice when conservative rage bait pieces helpfully debunk themselves.

But my friends, this is the best punchline to this article:

You can have a party around Nelson's crypt! He's entombed in the black marble sarcophagus above the plinth in the centre. They even gave him lovely lesbian lighting.

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The Battle of Trafalgar: HMS 'Victory' Steering for the Enemy by Eduardo de Martino

[not-a-fool-entire]

found this lithograph of HMS Victory at an antique/thrift shop!

apparently it's from the early 1960's

[angryblueoat]

“who would win in a fight between hms victory and uss constitution” they would kiss sloppy style. they would have lesbian sex. do you understand?