The flagship of Hood's namesake, Admiral Lord Samuel Hood, and even more famously of Nelson's namesake, Vice Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar. It is from Victory that Nelson transmitted the message by flag, "England expects that every man shall do his duty", and also onboard that he fell during the battle.
It is the very first ship that Great Britain saved and preserved for historical purposes, with Belfast being the next. In a further parallel, Belfast was opened as a museum ship to the public in her current real-life location in the Pool of London on Trafalgar Day in 1971 (the 166th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar).
Despite the ship being merely in dry dock since 1922 in Portsmouth, various admirals have still raised their flag there, and even since the dry dock, the officer whose flag flies above the ship is a knight who ranks no lower than Vice Admiral. Adding to that, she has also been the flagship of the United Kingdom's First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff since 2012 (currently Admiral Sir Tony Radakin since June 2019).
The flagship of Hood's namesake, Admiral Lord Samuel Hood, and even more famously of Nelson's namesake, Vice Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson, at the Battle of Trafalgar. It is from Victory that Nelson transmitted the message by flag, "England expects that every man shall do his duty", and also onboard that he fell during the battle.
It is the very first ship that Great Britain saved and preserved for historical purposes, with Belfast being the next. In a further parallel, Belfast was opened as a museum ship to the public in her current real-life location in the Pool of London on Trafalgar Day in 1971 (the 166th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar).
Despite the ship being merely in dry dock since 1922 in Portsmouth, various admirals have still raised their flag there, and even since the dry dock, the officer whose flag flies above the ship is a knight who ranks no lower than Vice Admiral. Adding to that, she has also been the flagship of the United Kingdom's First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff since 2012 (currently Admiral Sir Tony Radakin since June 2019).
