Black Seas - HMS Victory

Black Seas - HMS VictoryBlack Seas HMS Victory is a 1 700th scale miniature ship for Black Seas that adds one of the Royal Navys most famous flagships to your fleet. HMS Victory enters the tabletop as a First Rate ship of the line with three gun decks and 100 guns. In Black Seas, she brings formidable firepower, resilience, and an inspiring presence that can support nearby friendly ships when skill tests matter. The model represents Victory as Nelsons flagship at the Battle

Black Seas - HMS Victory is a 1/700th scale miniature ship for Black Seas that adds one of the Royal Navy’s most famous flagships to your fleet.

HMS Victory enters the tabletop as a First Rate ship-of-the-line with three gun decks and 100 guns. In Black Seas, she brings formidable firepower, resilience, and an inspiring presence that can support nearby friendly ships when skill tests matter. The model represents Victory as Nelson’s flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar, making it a strong centerpiece for Royal Navy collections and historical scenarios. This box includes a resin ship hull, metal mast components, printed sails, ship card, wake markers, rigging bobbin, acetate ratlines, and flags and pennants. The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Available now at Boarding School Games—raise Nelson’s flagship.

Key features

* Miniature ship for Black Seas
* Represents HMS Victory, a Royal Navy First Rate ship-of-the-line
* 1/700th scale resin and metal model
* Includes ship card, sails, wake markers, rigging, ratlines, flags, and pennants
* Supplied unassembled and unpainted
In 1805 she achieved lasting fame as the flagship of Vice-Admiral Nelson in Britain's greatest naval victory, the defeat of the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805)

Early in 1805, Vice Admiral Lord Nelson commanded the British fleet in a protracted blockade of Toulon. The French fleet successfully evaded Nelson's when storms disrupted the British blockade. Following a swift search of the Mediterranean, Nelson realised that the French had crossed the Atlantic Ocean towards the Carribean. He thus set off in pursuit.

After pursuing the Admiral in charge of the Franco-Spanish Fleet, Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, to the Caribbean and back, Admirals Lord Nelson and Collingwood finally engaged the enemy. On the 21st of September 1805, just off the southwest coast of Spain, west of Cape Trafalgar, near the town of Los Caños de Meca, the two mighty fleets engaged. The French fleet was in disarray, and Nelson had devised an unorthodox tactic in an attempt to conclusively defeat the Franco-Spanish fleet.

Nelson organised the British ships to sail perpendicularly across and through the French line. This meant that each British broadside was met by limited French counterfire.

HMS Victory Engages

For 40 minutes, Victory was under fire from the enemy ships of the line Héros, Santísima Trinidad, Redoutable, and Neptune. She cut the enemy line between Villeneuve's flagship Bucentaure and Redoutable; cutting a devastating broadside against the flagship, before engaging the 74-gun Redoubtable directly. The melee resulted in the two vessels locking masts. Nelson was shot by a French marksman from the Redoutable at the height of the battle and was carried below decks.

As the crew of the Redoubtable prepared to board HMS Victory, the 2nd ship of the British windward column, HMS Temeraire, emerged from the smoke and poured devastating carronade fire into the starboard side of Redoubtable. Its Captain, with less than twenty per cent of his crew fighting-fit remaining, surrendered.

More and more British ships entered the battle, gradually overwhelming the remaining allied ships. Nelson did not die until 16.30, well after British victory was already assured. Out of a crew of 821, Victory suffered 57 men killed and 102 wounded; a significant number for a battle of this type.

Though he himself perished, Nelson's fleet captured or destroyed 22 enemy ships, for no losses. Some of the captured vessels were destroyed, however, in the aftermath of the battle.

Nelson's body was borne home aboard his flagship. After lying in state at Greenwich, he was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral on 9 January 1806.

After Trafalgar

HMS Victory herself suffered in the battle, and at forty years of service was refitted as a second rate in 1807. She did not see further combat. After further service in the Baltic and off the coast of Spain, Victory was put into reserve in 1812 in Portsmouth. The ship had struck the public's chord, and any threat of decommissioning the ship resulted in public outcry. To this end, HMS Victory remains a commissioned vessel of the Royal Navy to this day.

In the Game

H.M.S Victory is a potent force on the tabletop. Aside from a formidable array of weaponry and fantastic resilience, her inspiring presence confers a bonus to all nearby friendly ships when they are required to take a skill test. If Nelson is present, this bonus is augmented yet further!

HMS Victory

This box set contains:

Components for 1 resin HMS Victory ship hull
Metal components for masts
Printed sails
HMS Victory ship card
Wake markers
Bobbin for rigging
Acetate Ratlines
A sheet of flags & pennants