HMS 1859 VICTORIA The Royal Navy's Largest Battleship Ever Built For Sale

I would just like to say we were not going to mention this but I was persuaded that it was the right thing to say even though you might think I'm crazy, I purchased this battleship many many years ago I bought it at an estate sale in Las Vegas along with the picture behind it it looks like it's been through battle itself I believe that it was sitting somewhere for a very long long time I left it the way it is it has dust and it looks like it has smoke on The masks and sails it looks like it's been in war itself I swear sometimes we think it's haunted it feels like there's tiny little military soldiers on it making noise at night in the back room, I can't figure out where it's coming from as far as I understood this ship never went to battle so maybe they're making their own battle up I have no idea. But yeah I think we've had enough with the strangeness of this battleship I'm pretty old and I think maybe I'm just imagining things but I'll leave it up to the new buyer to deal with that hopefully they'll be able to figure it out what the mystery is behind this battleship. whoever built this when it was built you really have to zoom in really tight on the pictures and look at the quality and craftsmanship they put into this the time and the hours the meticulous steadiness of their craftsmanship it really is amazing it almost looks like you can look into the windows in the doors that Lead into the galley down below and wonder what it must have been like to walk in and out of those doors what it would have been like to serve on a massive battleship like that out in the ocean I think this is a reason that we buy things like this and are so fascinated with the thought of it and like I said I haven't touched it and all the years I've had it it's just been sitting there for anyone that wanted to look at it and wonder what life must have been like serving on a battleship like that in the 1800s just a thought... good luck offerding thanks for looking here's the story.,.
HMS Victoria (1859) was the Royal Navy's largest wooden battleship ever built, and the last British three-decker first-rate ship of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion.
Key Specifications & Design
• Type: 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line
• Dimensions: 260 feet (79.2 meters) long on the gundeck and 18.3 meters wide
• Displacement: Approximately 6,959 tons (4,126 tons burthen)
• Propulsion: Powered by a 1,000-nominal-horsepower (4,400 indicated horsepower) horizontal steam engine driving a screw propeller, combined with a full rigging of sails, achieving a top speed of nearly 12 knots.
• Armament: Initially armed with 121 guns (including heavy 8-inch shell-firing guns and 68-pounders).
History & Career
• Construction & Launch: Laid down in 1856 and launched in 1859 at Portsmouth (with sister ship HMS Howe), representing the peak and twilight of traditional wooden warship engineering.
• Obsolescence: She was rendered functionally obsolete almost immediately upon completion by the arrival of the ironclad era, specifically the French Gloire (1859) and Britain's own HMS Warrior (1861).
• Active Service: Though completed in 1860, she sat in reserve until 1864, when she became the flagship of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet until 1867.
• Fate: Paid off into the reserve fleet in 1867 and eventually sold for scrap in May 1893.
(Note: HMS Victoria (1859) is often confused with the later 1887 ironclad battleship of the same name that tragically sank in a Mediterranean collision).
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