On 7 May 1765 the HMS Victory was floated out of Chatham’s Royal Dockyard. She would become the most famous flagship in the British Royal Navy and achieve everlasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson in Britain’s greatest ever naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar. This is the extraordinary story of how the HMS Victory became the deadly fighting machine that played such an enormous part in so many historic naval battles.
