Historic ship · Portsmouth · Hampshire

HMS Victory

HMS Victory is a 1765 first-rate ship of the line. Visitors find it inside Portsmouth’s built-up area. The site is in the hands of Royal Navy.

Photo: HMS Victory, David Dixon (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Where

In Portsmouth

inside the built-up area

Run by

Royal Navy

the operator on record

How well known

Top 1%

#46 of 8,556 places we list

Warmest months

May–Sep

highs of 18–23°C

In brief

Historic ship in Portsmouth

One of the best-known places to visit in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

#46 of the 8,556 museums, castles, gardens and other attractions we list, by how widely it is covered (43 Wikipedias). About ↓

Inside Portsmouth

HMS Victory is inside Portsmouth’s built-up area, with 47 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.

When to go

The seasons here

From May to September, Portsmouth sees highs of 18–23°C.

Jan9° / 3°86 mm

Feb9° / 3°60 mm

Mar12° / 4°50 mm

Apr15° / 6°53 mm

May18° / 8°43 mm

Jun21° / 11°50 mm

Jul23° / 13°46 mm

Aug23° / 13°60 mm

Sep20° / 11°58 mm

Oct16° / 9°88 mm

Nov12° / 6°90 mm

Dec10° / 3°89 mm

Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Portsmouth, and rain in a month. Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 averages for Portsmouth. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Portsmouth’s full climate →

About

HMS Victory

It is written up in 43 Wikipedias. There are 101 more places to see within 15 km, beginning with Mary Rose (300 m).

Type: Historic ship
Run by: Royal Navy
Wikipedias: Covered in 43 languages
Town: in Portsmouth
Official site: nmrn.org.uk/visit-us/portsmouth-historic-dockyard/hms-victory

Facts: Wikidata (CC0) and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors).

The map

Getting to HMS Victory

HMS Victory is in orange, with the places near it numbered as below.

Towns near it

Towns that count HMS Victory

Portsmouth, with 223,324 people, is the largest of the 8. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.

1 · It’s in town

Portsmouth

223,324 people · 64 places to visit

2 · 700 m west of it

Gosport

70,120 people · 57 places to visit

3 · 6.2 km west of it

Peel Common

263 people · 12 places to visit

4 · 7.6 km west of it

Lee-on-the-Solent

24,307 people · 21 places to visit

Compare the 8 towns

Town	Where HMS Victory is	People	Places to visit
Portsmouth	It’s in town	223,324	64
Gosport	700 m west of it	70,120	57
Peel Common	6.2 km west of it	263	12
Lee-on-the-Solent	7.6 km west of it	24,307	21
Southwick	8.2 km north of it	703	9
Fareham	8.4 km northwest of it	42,633	20
Stoke	9.3 km east of it	1,267	8
Ryde	9.5 km southwest of it	24,094	28

Make a day of it

Nearby, too

Within 15 km you can add 2 historic ships, 2 cathedrals and a museum.

MuseumMary Rose300 m away 2

Historic shipHMS Warrior400 m away 3

AttractionSpinnaker Tower700 m away 4

Castle · English HeritagePortchester Castle4 km away 5

CathedralPortsmouth Cathedral1.3 km away 6

CathedralCathedral of St John the Evangelist1.1 km away 7

Historic house · English HeritageOsborne House13 km away 8

Historic shipHMS Monitor M33100 m away

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

HMS Victory: common questions

Where is HMS Victory?

HMS Victory is in Portsmouth, Hampshire, inside the town’s built-up area.

What is HMS Victory?

1765 first-rate ship of the line.

Who runs HMS Victory?

Royal Navy.

When is the best time to visit HMS Victory?

May to September are the warmest months in Portsmouth, with afternoon highs of 18–23°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).

What else is there to see near HMS Victory?

Within 15 km: Mary Rose (300 m), HMS Warrior (400 m), Spinnaker Tower (700 m) and Portchester Castle (4 km).

Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.

Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (9)

HMS Victory: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Mary Rose: Mary Rose Trust, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Warrior: geni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Spinnaker Tower: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portchester Castle: Matthew Folley from UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
Portsmouth Cathedral: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Cathedral of St John the Evangelist: JohnArmagh, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Osborne House: Humac45, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
HMS Monitor M33: Dogboy, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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