HMS Victory Model Images - Rigging

The H.M.S. Victory was rigged with over twenty-seven miles (43.4 km) of rigging and carried in excess of
four acres of canvas. The standing rigging supported the mast and bowsprit. The running rigging was
used to control the yards and most of her thirty-two sails.

Rope Walk

Rope-Making Chart

Serving Mallet

Rope-making was a major project. There are twenty-two sizes of hawser-laid and three- and four-strand
cable-laid ropes on the model, ranging in size from 0.3mm to 4.3mm in diameter.

Fore Portside Channel

Forecastle

Quarter Deck and Poop

Two hundred and sixteen deadeyes were needed to set up the standing rigging and these were turned up from a
five thousand year-old River Red Gum (authenticated).

Making Deadeyes

Rigging Deadeyes Chart

Fore Top Deadeyes

Careful attention was paid to the running rigging's rope size and type and to
the size and patten of the 700 blocks needed to set up this rigging.

Forecastle Fully Rigged

Lower Fore Mast

Main Top Fully Rigged

The running rigging was added next. Work began on the flying jib boom, then working
aft from each of the royal mast heads down, finishing with the rigging of the boom.

On Display Fully Rigged 1998

Looking Fore

H.M.S. Victory 1998

The model was finally finished (15,440 hours) with the making and fitting of her boats.

Construction Method Ships Boats

Ships Boats on Skid Beams

Sea Cutter in Davits