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™ Assembly Guide Part 1 Packs 1-10 1 Assembly Guide Part 1 Packs 1-10 Contents HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar 3 Build it your way 8 Pack 1 13 Pack 2 17 Pack 3 21 Pack 4 29 Pack 5 31 Pack 6 33 Pack 7 42 Pack 8 44 Pack 9 45 Pack 10 63 Photo credits All photographs copyright © Continuo Creative with special thanks to the Royal Navy and the crew of HMS Victory. Visit our website www.model-space.com Editorial and design by Continuo Creative, 39-41 North Road, London N7 9DP All rights reserved © 2012 De Agostini UK Ltd, Battersea Studios 2, 82 Silverthorne Road, London SW8 3HE NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 14. THIS PRODUCT IS NOT A TOY AND IS NOT DESIGNED OR INTENDED FOR USE IN PLAY. ITEMS May Vary froM THOSE SHOWN. HMS Victory, Admiral Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar HMS (Her Majesty’s Ship) Victory is the most famous warship from the Age of Sail, and the death of her commander, Admiral Nelson, on board at the Battle of Trafalgar became one of the key moments in the history of naval warfare. HMS Victory, which is now in dry dock at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard in England, is the only surviving line-of-battle ship that dates back to the Napoleonic and French Revolutionary Wars. She is the also the oldest commissioned warship in the world, and is still crewed by officers and men of the British Royal Navy. A First Rate warship Victory was classed a First Rate ship of the line. This meant she was a warship that carried at least 100 guns. Her heavy armament made her one of the most powerful warships of the time and one of only a small number of First Raters in the British Navy. She measured 227 ft 6 in long with a beam (width) of 51 ft 10 in. She carried a maximum of 37 sails, whose total area was the same size as a football field, giving her a maximum speed of around 11 knots. Victory’s full crew was 850, although she only carried 820 at the time of her most famous action – the Battle of Trafalgar. The new vessel’s construction began at Chatham Dockyard, Kent on July 23, 1759. Britain was fighting the Seven Years’ War against the French, and the new First Rater was intended to bring the fleet up to strength. In 1760, it was announced that she would be called Victory. However, before the Since 1922, Victory has been in dry dock in Portsmouth. She is now the flagship for the Commander-in-Chief Naval Home Command as well as a popular museum of the Georgian navy. 3 Victory was almost entirely built of oak. Many of her timbers were massive, weighing many hundredweight, and her hull was several feet thick. warship was complete, the Treaty of Paris ended the war, work slowed down, and she was not launched until May 7, 1765. Building Victory was a massive undertaking. Around 6,000 trees went into her construction and her total cost was £63,176 (equivalent to over $78 million now). This was a massive investment, but as Victory was no longer needed for immediate service, she was assigned to the reserve fleet after sea trials. The massive wooden hull remained moored in the Medway River, roofed over and with bare masts for 13 years, until Britain went into battle against the American colonists in the Revolutionary War. Victory was finally commissioned as the flagship of Admiral Augustus Keppel and saw action in July 1778 during the The warship was built between 1759 and 1765 at the former Royal Dockyard on the banks of the Medway River at Chatham, which now houses exhibitions relating to the construction of warships of her era. 4 Grim reminders of 18th-century warfare on board Victory include surgical tools used in amputations and for extracting bullets. Revolutionary War, fighting the American colonists and their French and Spanish. Victory went on to sail as the flagship to nine admirals, of whom the most famous, Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson, was the eighth. Nelson’s last battle When Victory became his flagship in 1803, Admiral Nelson was already a national hero following a string of victories in Britain’s wars against the French and their European allies. The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, who dreamed of a Europe under French control, fought a long and bloody series of wars that lasted from 1793 until his final defeat at the Battle attacking Britain. He gathered a huge invasion barges could sail unopposed. of Waterloo in 1815. For most of this invasion force near the ports of The Royal Navy concentrated its time, the French army dominated Boulogne and Dunkirk, with over warships in the Channel and around Europe, while Britain, the world’s 2,000 boats to transport men and the French ports, so the Emperor greatest naval power, controlled the horses to southern England. ordered his fleet to attack British seas. A peace in 1802 only lasted The flotilla was ready on July 6, 1805, colonies and settlements overseas, briefly, and by 1805 Britain was under but Napoleon’s plans could only hoping that the Royal Navy would be serious threat. Napoleon had succeed if the ships of his own navy sent to protect them. As part of the strengthened his position on the and their Spanish allies could draw off French plan, Admiral Villeneuve’s Continent and could concentrate on or defeat the Royal Navy, so that the Mediterranean fleet joined with a The Admiral’s cabin has been restored to look as it did on the eve of battle in 1805. 4 5 Victory carries a full complement of guns on each of her three gun decks. The ship’s wheel is at the rear of the quarterdeck, which was the command center of the ship. Spanish fleet at the port of Cadiz, on the southwest coast of Spain. There, they were blockaded by a British fleet under Nelson’s command. Despite long and complicated maneuvers, the French failed to gain the upper hand. The Battle of Trafalgar The Franco-Spanish fleet finally left Cadiz on October 20, 1805. On the next day, Nelson gave the order to engage the much larger enemy force off Cape Trafalgar, some 27 miles out to sea. Nelson commanded 27 ships of the Royal Navy, carrying 17,000 men. The combined French and Spanish by a musket ball fired by a French captured or destroyed and only 11 of fleet included 33 ships, many of which marksman. He was taken below but the survivors were able to limp back to were larger than the British ships, there was nothing that the ship’s safety in the harbor of Cadiz. Nelson crewed by some 30,000 men. surgeon could do. The injury was fatal and Victory had given Britain control Nelson’s tactics were bold, brave and but before England’s greatest naval of the seas for decades to come. completely unconventional. His plan hero died on board Victory, he was to split the opposition’s forces meant brought the news that he had won a sailing straight toward the enemy devastating victory. Despite the carnage under fire, unable to return a shot until on board, not a single British ship was the moment they engaged. lost, but 18 of the enemy ships were As always, Nelson took his place in the thick of the action. He was A brass plaque on the planks of the directing operations on Victory’s quarter deck shows where the admiral was struck by a musket ball quarterdeck when he was struck down fired by a French marksman. 6 ™ Among the historical items displayed on the ship today are portraits of Admiral Nelson and his lover Emma Hamilton. 6 7 ™ Build it your way Before you start, choose whether to assemble your model with a natural finish that shows off your handiwork, or to paint it to make it as authentic a replica as possible of Victory at the time of the Battle of Trafalgar. ith each shipment, you’ll receive more packs of parts to be used to put together your model of HMS WVictory. These include precision laser-cut wooden components to build the hull, solid hardwood for the planking and masts, die-cast, turned and etched metal components for the deck fittings, guns and other equipment, cord for the rigging, and cotton cloth for the sails. Although the parts go together in the same way, you have a choice of a natural wood model or a painted finish (see below). As some of the parts need to be painted as you go, choose your paint finish before you start. Your model is made from materials that include hardwood, brass and cast white metal. You can either paint these or allow the natural colors to show. Option 1: Natural finish Option 2: Paint finish Many marine modelers prefer to display the results of their Most of Victory was painted to prevent decay, so even if the handiwork by leaving the materials in their natural state, so material was similar to the model, it was a different color. that the craftsmanship and skill can be fully appreciated. For example, the hull was painted with alternating stripes The instructions that you’ll receive pack by pack show you of black and ochre; the area below the waterline was how to put the model together this way. You simply need plated with copper; and iron parts were painted black to to ensure that the parts remain clean and free from excess protect them from corrosion.

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