Where is HMS Victory preserved as a historic ship?

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Horatio Nelson Lord Nelson, detail of an oil painting by J.F. Rigaud; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.

HMS Victory, the famous flagship of Admiral Horatio Nelson, is preserved as a historic ship in Portsmouth, England.1

Following its service in the Battle of Trafalgar and the Napoleonic Wars, the vessel was moored at Portsmouth as a stationary flagship. In 1922, it was moved into a dry dock and restored to its 1805 condition, and it has been open to the public as a museum ship since 1928.1