HMS Victory: Our museum quality HMS Victory model ship is an exact replica of the original vessel. Master craftsmen create the ship's form, which is afterwards sanded and puttied. Then our talented artists diligently paint on all the details of the HMS Victory model ship, no matter how big or small. Hand-casted resin and handmade metal parts complete the ship, and clear lacquer provides long-lasting protection. The HMS Victory model ship comes on a handsome display base with brass pedestals and a brass name plate, and has undergone various stages of quality control before being put in its protective wood crate. This museum quality HMS Victory model makes an ideal collectible or gift. HMS Victory History: The HMS Victory is a 104-gun ship of the line of the Royal Navy, built between 1759 and 1765. She is the oldest naval ship still in commission. She sits in dry dock in Portsmouth as a museum ship. In December 1758, the commissioner of Chatham Dockyard was instructed to prepare a dry dock for the construction of a new 106-gun first-rate ship. This was an unusual occurrence at the time; during the whole of the 18th century only ten were constructed—the Royal Navy preferred smaller and more manoeuvrable ships and it was unusual for more than two to be in commission simultaneously.