H.M.S. Victory (1765)

H.M.S. Victory (1765)
Launched:	1765
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H.M.S. Victory was Nelson's fabled flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar. By the late 1800's, her role was as a land-bound ceremonial and administrative centre in Portsmouth Harbour.

Captains in the Dreadnought Era

• Captain Henry C. Kane, 29 December, 1891
• Captain Francis C. B. Bridgeman, 10 August, 1897
• Captain Richard F. Phillimore, 20 May, 1905
• Captain Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair, 28 March, 1911
• Captain Francis A. Marten, 9 September, 1916 – 21 August, 1917
• Commodore, Second Class Oliver E. Leggett, 26 August, 1924 – 10 July, 1926
• Commodore, Second Class Gilbert O. Stephenson, 10 July, 1926 – 10 July, 1928
• Commodore, Second Class Frank Forester Rose, 10 July, 1928 – 1 November, 1929
• Commodore, Second Class The Hon. Alexander R. M. Ramsay, 1 November, 1929 – 2 November, 1931
• Commodore, Second Class Hubert E. Dannreuther, 2 November, 1931 – 4 October, 1932
• Captain William K. D. Dowding, 27 September, 1934 – 7 November, 1935^[Inference]
• Captain Lancelot E. Holland, 7 November, 1935  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Captain William E. C. Tait, 11 August, 1937 – 26 September, 1939  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Captain Harold T. C. Walker, 15 April, 1940 – 17 July, 1941  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Commodore, Second Class Ernest R. Archer, 23 July, 1941 – 30 March, 1943  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Captain Humphrey B. Jacomb, 20 March, 1943 – May, 1945  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Rear-Admiral Geoffrey A. B. Hawkins, 7 May, 1945 – 21 January, 1947  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth)
• Commodore, Second Class Angus D. Nicholl, 20 January, 1947 – 13 May, 1948  (and in command of R.N.B., Portsmouth, vice Hawkins)

See Also

• Wikipedia