Doing a little bit of research today, here's a couple things i found out:
At the time of her launching in 1765, cost £63,176. For comparison, this would be equivalent to the cost of building an aircraft carrier today.
Victory was constructed from approximately 6000 trees, 90% of which was oak.
This equates to 100 acres (40 hectares) of woodland.
Hull thickness at waterline - approximately 2ft (0.6m)
A total of 26 miles (41.9 km) of cordage was used to rig the ship.
Victory could spread a maximum of 37 sails.
In addition the ship carried 23 spare sails.
Total sail area - 6,510 square yards (5,468.4 square metres)
So yeah, a bit big. I copy/pasted this info from the official website, which should come in handy for when we come to modeling and planning out the movie:
http://www.hms-victory.com/
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WOW! Really interesting info - I wonder how long it took them to build it all?
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