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List of HMS Victory's Admirals is a stand-alone list of admirals who have flown their flag aboard HMS Victory, and their commanding officers. As Victory is still a commissioned ship of the Royal Navy that serves as the flagship to the First Sea Lord,[1] it is recognised that the list cannot yet be completed.

Admirals who have hoisted their flag in Victory

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HMS Victory is a 104-gun first-rate wooden sailing ship of the line. With 248 years of service as of 2026, she is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.[Note 1] Partly because of her long service, she has been the flagship of many a British admiral, beginning with Augustus Keppel who hoisted his flag on 24 March 1778 during the American Revolutionary War.[2][3] He had received the rank of full admiral the month previous on 29 January and boarded the ship at Portsmouth as the Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet. Keppel commanded Victory in her first major action, when his fleet engaged the French at the First Battle of Ushant on 27 July. Keppel resigned his commission in February 1779 following a political row with his subordinate, Sir Hugh Palliser.[3] Keppel was so infuriated by the affair that he refused to serve again and Sir Charles Hardy, at the age of 65, was brought out of retirement as the most suitable replacement, raising his flag in March 1779. He never had an opportunity to take her into battle, dying from a seizure on 19 May 1780.[4][5]

Admirals who hoisted their flag aboard HMS Victory during her service at sea
AdmiralFromUntil1st Captain2nd Captainrefs
Admiral Augustus Keppel 16 May 1778 18 March 1779 Rear-Admiral John Campbell Captain Jonathan Faulknor [6]
Admiral Sir Charles Hardy 19 March 1779 18 May 1780 Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt Captain Henry Collins [6]
Admiral Francis Geary 24 May 1780 28 August 1780 Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt Captain S. W. Collins [6]
Rear-Admiral Francis William Drake 11 September 1780 29 December 1780 Captain S. W. Clayton None [6]
Vice-Admiral Hyde Parker 20 March 1781 31 May 1781 Captain S. W. Clayton None [6]
Commodore John Elliott June 1781 August 1781 Captain John Howorth None [6]
Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt 10 September 1781 11 March 1782 Captain John Howorth Captain Henry Cromwell[Note 2] [6]
Admiral Lord Howe 20 April 1782 14 November 1782 Captain John Levenson-Gower Captain Henry Duncan[Note 3] [6]
Admiral Lord Howe 17 July 1790 August 1790 Sir Roger Curtis[Note 4] None [6]
Vice-Admiral Lord Hood August 1790 August 1791 Sir Hyde Parker Captain John Knight [6]
Rear-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker 5 February 1793 6 May 1793 Captain John Knight None [8]
Admiral Lord Hood 6 May 1793 15 December 1794 Rear-Admiral Sir Hyde Parker[Note 5] Captain John Knight [8]
Rear-Admiral Robert Mann 8 July 1795 27 September 1795 Captain John Knight None [8]
Vice-Admiral Robert Linzee October 1795 November 1795 Captain John Knight None [8]
Admiral Sir John Jervis 3 December 1795 30 March 1797 Captain Robert Calder Captain George Grey [8]
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson 18 May 1803 23 May 1803 Captain Samuel Sutton None [8]
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson 30 July 1803 19 August 1805 Captain George Murray Captain Thomas Hardy [8]
Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson 14 September 1805 22 December 1805[Note 6] Captain Thomas Hardy None [8]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 18 March 1808 9 December 1808 Captain George Johnstone Hope[Note 7] Captain Philip Dumaresq [9]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 8 April 1809 20 December 1809 Captain George Johnstone Hope Captain Philip Dumaresq [9]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 11 March 1810 3 December 1810 Captain Philip Dumaresq None [9]
Rear-Admiral Sir Joseph Yorke December 1810 March 1811 None None [9]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 2 April 1811 25 December 1811 Captain Philip Dumaresq Captain Lewis Shepherd [9]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez 14 April 1812 15 October 1812 Captain Philip Dumeresq None [9]

Harbour service

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Following inspection and repairs in January 1824, Victory was considered too weak for active service and suitable only for use as the Port admiral's flagship. She remained in that role at Portsmouth Harbour until April 1830.[10] In 1831, a public outcry stopped an Admiralty order for the aging ship to be broken up and she was instead re-assigned as home to the Captain of Ordinary, whose responsibility was to look after all the ships that had been laid up.[11] In 1832 however, she was recommissioned as flagship to the port admiral once more.[12] The port admiral moved his flag to the 120-gun HMS Britannia in August 1836 and Victory was without a role until August 1837, when she became flagship to the Admiral Superintendent of the Dockyard.[12] In 1847 Victory was the flagship to the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth but she was docked again in 1857 for further repairs and recoppering.[12][11] She resumed her role on her return to service in 1858, but in 1869 the Commander-in-Chief's flag was transferred to the steam line of battle ship Duke of Wellington and Victory was designated her tender.[12]

Admirals who hoisted their flag aboard HMS Victory while she was on harbour service at Portsmouth
AdmiralFromUntilCommanding Officerrefs
Admiral Sir George Martin January 1824 April 1827 Captain Charles Inglis [13]
Admiral Robert Stopford 1 May 1827 30 April 1830 Captain George Elliot [13][14]
Admiral Sir Thomas Foley 6 October 1831 14 January 1833 Osborne Foley[Note 8][Note 9] [13]
Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland 22 January 1833 28 January 1833 Captain Hyde Parker [13]
Admiral Thomas Williams 29 January 1833 31 August 1835 Captain Edward R. Williams[Note 10] [13]
Rear-Admiral Sir Frederick Maitland 25 August 1836 25 July 1837 Captain Thomas Searle [13]
Rear-Admiral Duncombe Pleydell-Bouverie July 1837 August 1842 Captain Thomas Searle[Note 11] [13]
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker 6 August 1842 12 June 1845 Captain William Henderson[Note 12] [13]
Admiral Sir Charles Rowley 13 June 1845 19 August 1845 Captain George Moubray [13]
Rear-Admiral James Richard Dacres 20 August 1845 5 September 1845 Captain George Moubray [13]
Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker 23 September 1845 5 June 1846 Captain George Moubray[Note 13] [13]
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle 6 June 1846 30 September 1848 Captain John Pasco[Note 14] [13]
Admiral Sir Thomas Capel 1 October 1848 30 September 1851 Captain Charles Eden[Note 15] [17]
Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs 1 October 1851 26 December 1852 Captain George Bohun Martin [17]
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane 27 December 1852 31 December 1855 Captain John Shepherd[Note 16] [17]
Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour 1 January 1856 1 March 1859 Captain George Thomas Gordon[Note 17] [17]
Admiral Sir William Bowles 20 March 1859 19 March 1860 Captain Arthur Farquhar [17]
Vice Admiral Sir Henry Bruce 20 March 1860 19 December 1864 Captain Robert Coote [17]
Vice Admiral Sir Michael Seymour 20 December 1864 19 March 1866 Captain Francis Scott [19]
Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley 20 March 1866 20 March 1869 Captain Francis Egerton[Note 18] [19]
Tender to HMS Duke of Wellington from 20 December 1869 until 1 September 1891
Admiral The Earl of Clanwilliam 1 August 1891 17 September 1894 Captain Robert Woodward[Note 19] [21][20]
Admiral Sir Nowell Salmon VC 18 September 1894 31 August 1897 Captain Wollaston Kerslake[Note 20] [22][20]
Admiral Sir Michael Culme-Seymour 1 September 1897 17 November 1900 Captain Francis Bridgeman [23][24]
Admiral Sir Charles Hotham 18 November 1900 30 September 1903 Captain Edward Jones [25][24]
Admiral Sir John Fisher 1 October 1903 18 March 1904 Captain Robert Arbuthnot [26][24]
The Port Admiral's flag moved to HMS Hercules and on 1 February 1905, to Firequeen
Admiral Sir Archibald Douglas 18 March 1905 1 March 1907 Captain Spencer Login[Note 21] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Day Bosanquet 2 March 1907 17 March 1908 Captain Archibald Moore[Note 22] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe 18 March 1908 30 April 1910 Captain Edward Hyde Parker [28][24]
Admiral Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe 1 May 1910 17 March 1911 Captain John Hutchinson [29][24]
Admiral Sir Arthur Moore 18 March 1911 31 July 1912 Captain John Hutchinson[Note 23] [23][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Hedworth Meux 1 August 1912 17 February 1916 Captain Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair[Note 24] [30][24]
Admiral The Hon Sir Stanley Colville 18 February 1916 17 April 1919 Captain Richard Stapleton-Cotton[Note 25] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Cecil Burney 18 April 1919 17 June 1920 Captain Colin Mackenzie [31][24]
Admiral Hon Sir Somerset Gough-Calthorpe 18 June 1920 31 May 1923 Captain Colin Mackenzie[Note 26] [32][24]

Dry dock

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At the end of 1921, Victory was brought into Portsmouth Dockyard for a detailed inspection, where it was discovered that she had hogged so badly that the bow and stern had dropped by 457 millimetres (18 in) and 203 millimetres (8 in) respectively, and that the scarph joints of the keelson had opened up by more than an 25.5 millimetres (1 in). Concerns about her ability to remain afloat led to Victory being dry docked indefinitely. She was moved to No. 2 dock on 20 March 1922.[33] The ship continued to fly the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth until the post was amalgamated with Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth in 1969, when she became flagship to the newly formed Commander-in-Chief, Naval Home Command.[34] This position was merged with that of Second Sea Lord in 1994. He flew his flag aboard the ship until October 2012, when the distinct Commander-in-Chief posts were discontinued and full command responsibility was vested in the First Sea Lord, who has since flown his flag from her.[35] In May 2025, The First Sea Lord, Sir Ben Key was suspended while an investigation into his behaviour was carried out.[36][37] [Note 27] He was provisionally replaced by acting Chief of Naval Staff, Second Sea Lord Vice Admiral Sir Martin Connell. A new First Sea Lord, Sir Gwyn Jenkins was appointed on 27 May 2025. He is not an admiral but a general in the Royal Marines.[41]

Admirals who hoisted their flag aboard HMS Victory after she was permanently dry-docked in March 1922
AdmiralFromUntilCommanding Officerrefs
Admiral Sir Sydney Fremantle 1 June 1923 1 April 1926 Colin Maclean[Note 28] [34][24]
Admiral Sir Osmond Brock 18 May 1926 30 April 1929 Captain Gilbert Owen Stephenson[Note 29] [42][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes 1 May 1929 17 June 1931 Lieutenant P. C. Organ[Note 30] [43][24]
Admiral Sir Arthur Waistell 18 June 1931 17 February 1934 Lieutenant H. F. Edwards[Note 31] [34][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Kelly 18 February 1931 31 August 1936 Lieutenant J. C. Ackerman[Note 32] [44][24]
Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of Cork and Orrery 18 August 1937 30 June 1939 Lieutenant T. H. Coulter[Note 33] [45][24]
Admiral Sir William James 1 July 1939 30 September 1942 Lieutenant W. G. English[Note 34] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Charles Little 1 October 1942 28 September 1945 Captain A. Grant [23][24]
Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton 29 September 1945 29 June 1947 Commander W. J. Stride [23][24]
Admiral The Lord Fraser of North Cape 30 June 1947 21 July 1948 Commander W. J. Stride[Note 35] [46][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Willis 22 July 1948 17 October 1950 Lieutenant S. R. Williams[Note 36] [47][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Power 18 October 1950 17 October 1952 Lieutenant H. A. Southcott [48][24]
Admiral Sir John Edelsten 18 October 1952 17 October 1954 Lieutenant H. A. Southcott [23][24]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Creasy 18 October 1954 17 July 1957 Lieutenant H. A. Southcott[Note 37] [49][24]
Admiral Sir Guy Grantham 18 July 1957 17 July 1959 Lieutenant S. S. Noble[Note 38] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Manley Power 18 July 1959 17 January 1962 Lieutenant Commander A. McLangley[Note 39] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley 18 January 1962 17 January 1963 Lieutenant Commander V. H. Bracher [23][24]
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods 18 January 1963 9 September 1965 Lieutenant Commander V. H. Bracher [23][24]
Admiral Sir Varyl Begg 10 September 1965 9 June 1966 Lieutenant Commander V. H. Bracher[Note 40] [50][24]
Admiral Sir Frank Hopkins 10 June 1966 30 October 1967 Lieutenant Commander C. W. Whittington [23][24]
Admiral Sir John Frewen 31 October 1967 27 February 1970 Lieutenant Commander C. W. Whittington[Note 41] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Horace Law 28 February 1970 28 February 1972 Lieutenant Commander W. E. Pearce[Note 42] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Andrew Lewis 29 February 1972 29 June 1974 Lieutenant Commander A. Hardy[Note 43] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Derek Empson 30 June 1974 30 October 1975 Lieutenant Commander P. C. Whitlock [23][24]
Admiral Sir Terence Lewin 31 October 1975 30 October 1976 Lieutenant Commander P. C. Whitlock [51][24]
Admiral Sir David Williams 31 October 1976 30 October 1978 Lieutenant Commander P. C. Whitlock[Note 44] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Richard Clayton 31 October 1978 30 June 1981 Lieutenant Commander J. A. Barker [23][24]
Admiral Sir James Eberle 1 July 1981 31 December 1983 Lieutenant Commander J. A. Barker[Note 45] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Desmond Cassidi 1 January 1983 30 October 1984 Lieutenant Commander C. P. Addis [23][24]
Admiral Sir Peter Stanford 31 October 1984 30 October 1987 Lieutenant Commander C. P. Addis[Note 46] [23][24]
Admiral Sir John "Sandy" Woodward 31 October 1987 30 October 1989 Lieutenant Commander L. McAjay[Note 47] [23][24]
Admiral Sir Jeremy Black 31 October 1989 30 March 1991 Lieutenant Commander J. D. D. Whitehead [23][24]
Admiral Sir John Kerr 31 March 1991 30 March 1993 Lieutenant Commander D. J. Harris [23][24]
Admiral Sir Michael Layard 31 March 1993 30 March 1994 Lieutenant Commander D. J. Harris [23][24]
Admiral Sir Michael Boyce 31 March 1994 30 March 1997 Lieutenant Commander M. Cheshire [23][24]
Admiral Sir John Brigstocke 31 March 1997 18 January 2000 Lieutenant Commander M. Cheshire[Note 48] [23][24]
Vice Admiral Sir Peter Spencer 19 January 2000 28 January 2003 Lieutenant Commander F. Nowosieiski [23][52]
Vice-Admiral Sir James Burnell-Nugent 29 January 2003 25 October 2005 Lieutenant Commander F. Nowosieiski [23][24]
Vice-Admiral Sir Adrian Johns 25 October 2005 15 July 2008 Lieutenant Commander F. Nowosieiski[Note 49] [23][24]
Vice-Admiral Sir Alan Massey 15 July 2008 19 July 2010 Lieutenant Commander J. Scivier[Note 50] [53]
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Montgomery 19 July 2010 9 October 2012 Lieutenant Commander D. J. Whild[Note 51] [54]
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope 9 October 2012 9 April 2013 Lieutenant Commander R. J. Strathern [55][54]
Admiral Sir George Zambellas 9 April 2013 8 April 2016 Lieutenant Commander R. J. Strathern [56]
Admiral Sir Philip Jones 8 April 2016 19 June 2019 Lieutenant Commander B. J. Smith [57]
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin 19 June 2019 8 November 2021 Lieutenant Commander B. J. Smith [57]
Admiral Sir Ben Key 8 November 2021 9 May 2025 Lieutenant Commander B. J. Smith[Note 52] [58] [57]
Vice-Admiral Sir Martin Connell 10 May 2025 26 May 2025 Lieutenant Commander Steve Cass [57]

Notes

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  1. ↑ USS Constitution is 30 years younger. She is often referred to as the "oldest commissioned warship still afloat" because she is maintained in sailing trim; Victory is kept in dry dock.[2]
  2. ↑ Henry Duncan from 10 April 1782[6]
  3. ↑ Captain Roger Curtis from 19 October 1782 then Captain Thomas Byard from 17 January 1783.[6]
  4. ↑ Curtis was knighted in 1782 for his actions in Great Siege of Gibraltar.[7]
  5. ↑ Captain J. N. Inglefield from 19 June 1794.[8]
  6. ↑ Flying at half-mast from 22 October 1805.[8]
  7. ↑ Thomas Byam Martin from 1 September 1808 then Captain J. C. Searle from December 1808.[9]
  8. ↑ Osborne was nephew to Sir Thomas.[15]
  9. ↑ Captain Hyde Parker from 25 January 1832.[13]
  10. ↑ Captain Thomas Searle from 1 August 1836.[13]
  11. ↑ Captain Francis Erskine Loch from 6 October 1839 then Rear-Admiral William Henderson from 5 September 1841.[13]
  12. ↑ Captain George Moubray from 1 October 1844.[13]
  13. ↑ Captain John Pasco from 12 April 1846.[13]
  14. ↑ Pasco was promoted to Rear-Admiral on 22 September 1846.[16] He was replaced as Victory's captain by Captain Richard Augustus Yates on 2 October 1847, then Captain Augustus Milne from 1 December 1847, then Captain Charles Eden from 18 December 1847.[13]
  15. ↑ Captain Francis Price Blackwood from 13 November 1848.[13]
  16. ↑ Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale from 1 October 1853, then Captain John C. D. Hay from 19 January 1854 and Captain George Thomas Gordon from 1 February 1855.[17]
  17. ↑ Captain James Robert Drummond from 1 March 1856, then Captain George Henry Seymour (son of Vice Admiral Sir George Seymour[18]) from 21 August 1856.[17]
  18. ↑ Captain Frederick Seymour from 20 September 1867, then Captain George Bowyear from 20 December 1868.[19]
  19. ↑ Captain Henry Palliser from 20 September 1891, then Captain Henry Coey Kane from 20 March 1892 and Captain Wollaston Kerslake from 20 April 1894.[20]
  20. ↑ Captain William May from 18 May 1897.[20]
  21. ↑ Captain Richard Phillimore from 18 May 1905.[27]
  22. ↑ Captain William Baker-Baker from 1 September 1907.[24]
  23. ↑ Captain Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair from 1 May 1911.[24]
  24. ↑ Captain Richard Stapleton-Cotton from 1 September 1913.[24]
  25. ↑ Captain Francis Marten from 18 August 1916, then Captain Thomas Goldie from 18 August 1917, Captain Francis Mitchell from 1 November 1917, and Captain Anselan Stirling from 1 November 1918.[24]
  26. ↑ Captain Fawcet Wray from 1 September 1920, then Captain Rudolf Burmester from 1 November 1920, Captain Colin Maclean from 1 April 1922.[24]
  27. ↑ Key was subsequently dismissed on 2 July.[38][39] The BBC reported that Key had violated the military's code of conduct by having an affair with a more junior female officer.[40]
  28. ↑ Captain Gilbert Owen Stephenson from 1 September 1924.[24]
  29. ↑ Captain Francis George Gillilan Chilton from 1 August 1926, then Lieutenant Thomas Albert Herriott from 1 September1927 and Lieutenant P. C. Organ from 1 September 1928.[24]
  30. ↑ Lieutenant H. F. Edwards from 1 May 1931.[24]
  31. ↑ Lieutenant J. C. Ackerman from 1 April 1933.[24]
  32. ↑ Lieutenant G. E. Williamson from 18 June 1935.[24]
  33. ↑ Lieutenant W. G. English from 1 August 1937.[24]
  34. ↑ Commander A. Grant from 2 September 1939.[24]
  35. ↑ Lieutenant S. R. Williams from 17 January 1948.[24]
  36. ↑ Promoted to Lieutenant Commander on 19 April 1949.[24]
  37. ↑ Lieutenant S. S. Noble from 18 April 1955.[24]
  38. ↑ Lieutenant Commander A. McLangley from 18 January 1958.[24]
  39. ↑ Lieutenant Commander V. H. Bracher from 18 January 1961.[24]
  40. ↑ Lieutenant Commander C. W. Whittington from 1 October 1965.[24]
  41. ↑ Lieutenant Commander W. E. Pearce from 14 June 1968.
  42. ↑ Lieutenant Commander A. Hardy from 1 July 1970.[24]
  43. ↑ Lieutenant Commander H. A. A. Twiddy from 1 July 1972.[24]
  44. ↑ Lieutenant Commander J. A. Barker from 1 September 1978.[24]
  45. ↑ Lieutenant Commander C. P. Addis from 5 January 1982.[24]
  46. ↑ Lieutenant Commander L. McAjay from 7 January 1986.[24]
  47. ↑ Lieutenant Commander J. D. D. Whitehead from 31 October 1988.[24]
  48. ↑ Lieutenant Commander F. Nowosieiski from 1 April 1998.[52]
  49. ↑ Lieutenant Commander J. Scivier from 11 March 2006.[24]
  50. ↑ Lieutenant Commander D. J. Whild from 1 September 2008.
  51. ↑ Lieutenant Commander R. J. Strathern from 16 December 2011.
  52. ↑ Lieutenant Commander Steve Cass from 12 May 2025.[57]

References

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  1. ↑ "HMS Victory Facts". HMS Victory. The National Museum of the Royal Navy. 2025. Retrieved 27 July 2025.
  2. 1 2 Eastland and Ballantyne (2011) p. 9
  3. 1 2 McKay (2004)
  4. ↑ Lavery (2015) p. 61
  5. ↑ Davies (2004)
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Wharton (1872) p. 50
  7. ↑ Knight (2004)
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Wharton (1872) p. 52
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Wharton (1872) p. 54
  10. ↑ Winfield (2010) p. 67
  11. 1 2 Aberg, Alan (2005). "Saving the Victory". The Mariner's Mirror. 91 (2). Portsmouth, United Kingdom: Society for Nautical Research: 359–361. doi:10.1080/00253359.2005.10656955. S2CID 162312253.
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  13. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Wharton (1872) p. 56
  14. ↑ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Stopford, Robert" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  15. ↑ Marshall, John (1833). "Foley, Osborne" . Royal Naval Biography . Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman – via Wikisource.
  16. ↑ O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Pasco, John" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray – via Wikisource.
  17. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Wharton (1872) p. 58
  18. ↑ Heathcote (2002) p. 130
  19. 1 2 3 Wharton (1872) p. 60
  20. 1 2 3 4 "Victory's Commanding Officers 1778-1900". HMS Victory. The National Museum of the Royal Navy. 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
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  22. ↑ Heathcote (2002) p. 225
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  26. ↑ Heathcote (2002) p. 81
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  29. ↑ Laughton; Lambert (2004)
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  32. ↑ Heathcote (2002) p. 105
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  36. ↑ "Head of Royal Navy steps down 'over affair with female subordinate'". The Daily Telegraph. 9 May 2025. Retrieved 9 May 2025.
  37. ↑ Haynes, Deborah (9 May 2025). "Head of Royal Navy steps back after investigation into alleged relationship with female colleague". Sky News. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  38. ↑ Hughes, David (2 July 2025). "Former Navy head sacked after 'falling short of values and standards expected'". Yahoo News.
  39. ↑ "Former head of Royal Navy sacked". Sky News. 2 July 2025.
  40. ↑ Rossiter, Emma; Beale, Jonathan (2 July 2025). "Former head of Royal Navy sacked over behaviour". BBC News. Retrieved 9 July 2025.
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  50. ↑ Heathcote (2002) p. 28
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  54. 1 2 "100th Commanding Officer". BBC News (Hampshire and Isle of Wight). 16 December 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
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  56. ↑ "Admiral George Zambellas new First Sea Lord". UK Government. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2025.
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The ship occupies a special place in the British psyche and is considered a potent symbol of the Royal Navy. [1][2][3][4] The First Lord of the Admiralty, Leo Amery, once said that Victory embodied "...in a quite unique degree the history and tradition of British sea power … the central shrine of our great naval tradition" while during the Naval Review of 1924, King George V declared "...that the country possessed no better stimulus to patriotic self-sacrifice than the flagship of Nelson".[5] She has been a destination for royalty and heads of state including Kaiser Wilhelm II, who with his wife, the Kaiserin, made a state visit to Britain in 1889. The Kaiser was presented with a desk fashioned by Waring and Gillow from timber that once formed part of Victory.[6] He would later, on 1 August 1914, sign an order on the desk, that would start the First World War.[7] While serving as the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill embarked the ship in 1941 following an air raid on Portsmouth during the nights of 10 and 11 January.[8]

In 1889, it was planned to tow Victory to Greenwich for the Royal Navy exhibition, featuring a display of more than 5,000 nautical objects. When the venue was changed to Chelsea, the large number of low bridges made this an almost impossible task, and instead a full-size model of the ship was constructed.[9] WHen the exhibition was over, the replica was sold and rebuilt at its new home on the Isle of Man.[10]

Victory has featured in and provided inspiration for several films: The fictional Royal Navy ship HMS Dauntless in the 2003 Disney film Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was based on her,[11] while the Great Cabin stood in for HMS Bellerophon in the 2023 biopic Napoleon, in a fictitious scene depicting a meeting between Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington.[12] She is used used as a basis for the ship of the line in the opening song "Look Down" in the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, which was filmed in HMNB Portsmouth.[13] and a few glimpses of the ship, still afloat in 1918, are to be seen towards the end of Maurice Elvey's biopic of Nelson created in that year.[14] Persuasion, a 1995 period drama by the BBC and based on Jane Austen's 1817 novel of the same name, featured scenes aboard Victory and her cutter.[15] For the film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World the production team worked with Victory's curators to help accurately depict life aboard during the Georgian era, while Russell Crowe, who portrayed Jack Aubrey in the film, boarded the ship to garner inspiration for his role.[16][17] W. S. Gilbert visited the ship in 1868 while researching his operetta HMS Pinafore.[18]

  1. ↑ Eastland and Ballantyne (2011) p. 6
  2. ↑ McGowan (2003) p. vii
  3. ↑ Lavery (2015) p. 6
  4. ↑ Goodwin (2015) p. 4
  5. ↑ Don Legget (March 2017). "Restoring Victory: Naval Heritage, Identity, and Memory in Interwar Britain". Modern British History, Volume 28, Issue 1,. Oxford Academic. pp. 57–82. Retrieved 16 April 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  6. ↑ Lavery (2015) p. 174
  7. ↑ Lavery (2015) p. 178
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