HMS Victoria (1859)

	HMS Victoria, painting by William Mackenzie Thomson
History
Royal NavyUnited Kingdom
Name	Victoria
Ordered	6 January 1855
Builder	HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Laid down	1 April 1856
Launched	12 November 1859
Fate	Sold for scrap, 31 May 1893
General characteristics
Class & type	Victoria-class ship of the line
Displacement	6,959 tons
Tons burthen	412671⁄94 bm
Length	260 ft (79.2 m)
Beam	60 ft 1 in (18.3 m)
Draught	21 ft 2 in (6.5 m)
Depth of hold	26 ft 10 in (8.2 m)
Installed power	8 fire-tube boilers ; 4,403 ihp (3,283 kW; 4,464 PS);
Propulsion	1 propeller shaft; 1 steam engine
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	11.8 knots (21.9 km/h; 13.6 mph)
Complement	1,000 officers and ratings
Armament	Lower gun deck: 32 × 8 in (203 mm) shell guns; Middle gun deck: 30 × 8 in guns; Upper gun deck: 32 × 32 pdr guns; Quarter deck: 26 × 32 pdr guns, 1 × 68 pdr gun;

HMS Victoria was a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line built for the Royal Navy during the 1850s. She and her sister ship HMS Howe were the only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, and were the largest wooden battleships of their time. She was the world's second-largest wooden battleship after Howe. She was also the world's second largest warship until the completion of HMS Warrior, Britain's first ironclad battleship, in 1861. Although the ship was completed in 1860, she was not commissioned until 1864 when Victoria became the flagship of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet. She was paid off in 1867 into the reserve fleet and was sold for scrap in 1893.