Billings BB498 1:75 HMS Victory - Wooden hull 439623Billing Boats HMS Victory 1: 75 scale model ship kit BB498 HMS Victory was launched in 1765 at Chatham Dockyard and was commissioned in 1778. She continued in active service for the next 34 years which included her most famous moment the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. In 1812 the Victory was retired from frontline duty and anchored in Portsmouth Harbour, on the south coast of England. For the next 110 years the Victory remained at her moorings in