On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 01:39:59 +0100, "Mycroft" wrote:

these ships were used for decades. Victory was laid down before Nelson was
born and at the time he was given his choice of flagship she was a prison
hulk, but he wanted her for sentimental reasons.

Let's see...surveyed 1797, unfit for service, handed over for conversion to
hospital ship, but reconsidered as a 1st rate after IMPREGNABLE was lost.
Refit at Chatham 1800-1803, and sailed for the Med 16 May under Hardy with
Nelson aboard.

Considering the refit began 4 years before Nelson came aboard, and in the
interim Nelson had been off fighting at Copenhagen, I really don't see that he
had anything to do with her fate at that point.


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