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 |