Principal Dimensions of the HMS Victory.

In 1765, on the 7th May, was launched from Chatham Dockyard the present “Victory, which had been built from designs of Sir Thomas Slade, then surveyor of the navy. Her principal dimensions are as follows :—

  feet ins.
Length from figure head to taffrail 226 6
Length of keel 151 3
gun-deck 186 0
Extreme beam 52 0
Depth of hold 21 6
Tonnage 2162 tons