HMS Victoria (1859)

HMS Victoria, painting by William Mackenzie Thomson
History
United Kingdom
Name	HMS Victoria
Ordered	6 January 1855
Laid down	1 April 1856
Launched	12 November 1859
Fate	Sold for scrap, 31 May 1893
General characteristics
Class and type	Victoria
Displacement	6,959 tons
Tons burthen	412631⁄94 bm
Length	260 ft (79 m)
Beam	60 ft (18 m)
Draught	27 ft 6 in (8.38 m)
Propulsion	Sails; 1 Maudslay engine fired by eight boilers, producing 4,403 ihp to one screw
Complement	1,000 officers and men
Armament	121 guns: Gun deck: 32 × 8 inch Middle gun deck: 30 × 8 inch Upper gun deck: 32 × 32 pdrs Quarter deck: 26 × 32 pdrs, 1 × 68 pdr

HMS Victoria was a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister ship HMS Howe were the first and 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. Between 1860 and 1867 Victoria was in active service as flagship of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet under Vice-Admiral Robert Smart. She was paid off in 1867 without ever seeing combat, and was sold for scrap in 1893.