HMS Victory is a first rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy,This means that she had to have at least 100 guns-in fact at the time of Trafalgar she had 104. built between 1759 and 1765, and most famous as Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar.her armament consists of 100 guns on various decks as well as various small arms such as cutlasses, pikes axes,muskets and pistols. Life on board for a seaman would not have been much fun,A seaman could be flogged and given as many as thirty-six lashes for drunkenness, quarrelling, insolence or neglect of duty. food consisted mainly of beef which had been stored for ten years in the cask,fresh water also stored in casks would have turned green and slimy after a while, in fact thirteen times as many seamen died of disease as were killed in battle. HMS Victory was withdrawn from active service in 1812 and now resides at Portsmouth historic dockyard as a museum ship